Work-Life Balance
These distinguished women scientists explained how they balance work with their life, focusing primarily on the timing of when or when not to start a family, trade-offs they've had to make, support from others, and work priorities.
The number one obstacle for women in academia is that issue of how to work out that balance. Especially because, you know, even my most progressive male-father friends just don't do as much caregiving as women do. That's just not equal.
-Lisa Diamond
I need to have a work-life balance. And so now I've found myself, I've put myself into a job where I don't have to be on call that much. But then as you get further into your career saying, no, I don't want to do on-call anymore. I also set quite big, quite severe boundaries with my clients. Like I'm not going to call my clients on the weekend. They can call and demand that of me all that they want, but I'm not going to call them on the weekend. And I let them know that and it's in all the paperwork.
- Ashley Hechler, DVM, MS, DACVS
The biographies of these women can be found on the welcome page. Full interviews and transcriptions also found here.
Page researched and written by undergraduate Honors students Grace Hall, Micaela Olivares, Elsa Osborne, and Sarita Som.