For Female Scientists, There's No Good Time To Have Children
by The Daily Eye Team May 9 2016, 7:39 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 23 secsAmerican women are leaving academic science, including the social sciences, in alarming numbers. Many will turn away from science while still in graduate school. Although women obtain more than half of the baccalaureate degrees in the sciences, they receive only 46 percent of the doctorates. Others will drop out of the science pipeline after receiving their Ph.D.s, or when they come up for tenure. Less than one third of Ph.D