Sharing this because I remember that talk that went around after S3, and a lot of women academics who talked about the choices they or their colleagues had been forced to make between family and scholarship. I came across this book, and thought it might be of interest to some of you.
Do Babies Matter? is the first comprehensive examination of the relationship between family formation and the academic careers of men and women, providing insights from unprecedented data resources, including a decade of research using the national Survey of Doctoral Recipients, data from the University of California, and multiple surveys of faculty and graduate students in the ten-campus UC system. Mason highlights the needs of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, early and mid-career faculty, and those nearing retirement, exploring the family sacrifices women often have to make to get ahead and how gender and family interact to affect progress through key points in the academic career. Concrete strategies are suggested for transforming the university into a family-friendly environment at every career stage.