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When is the "right" time? How can I meet the demands of a professorship whilst caring for a young family? Choosing to become a mother has a profound effect on the career path of women holding academic positions, especially in the physical sciences. Yet many women successfully manage to do both. In this book 15 inspirational personal accounts describe the challenges and rewards of combining motherhood with an academic career in chemistry. The authors are all women at different stages of their career and from a range of colleges, in tenure and non-tenure track positions. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students of chemistry, these contributions serve as examples for women considering a career in academia but worry about how this can be balanced with other important aspects of life. The authors describe how they overcame particular challenges, but also highlight aspects of the systems which could be improved to accommodate women academics and particularly encourage more women to take on academic positions in the sciences.
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Renée Cole Cecilia Marzabadi Gail Webster Kimberly Woznack Editors Mom the Chemistry Professor Personal Accounts and Advice from Chemistry Professors who are Mothers Mom the Chemistry Professor ThiS is a FM Blank Page Rene´e Cole • Cecilia Marzabadi • Gail Webster • Kimberly Woznack Editors Mom the Chemistry Professor Personal Accounts and Advice from Chemistry Professors who are Mothers Editors Rene´e Cole Department of Chemistry The University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa USA Cecilia Marzabadi Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Seton Hall University South Orange, New Jersey USA Gail Webster Department of Chemistry Guilford College Greensboro, North Carolina USA Kimberly Woznack Department of Chemistry & Physics California University of Pennsylvania California, Pennsylvania USA Inspired by the German language book “Professorin und Mutter – wie geht das?” Published by Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-319-06043-9 ISBN 978-3-319-06044-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06044-6 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014942373 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any err