{"id":581,"date":"2012-03-09T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/?p=581"},"modified":"2012-03-09T10:20:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T18:20:06","slug":"work-life-balance-is-out-of-reach-for-many-male-and-female-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/work-life-balance-is-out-of-reach-for-many-male-and-female-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-Life Balance Is Out of Reach for Many Male and Female Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/article-content\/131111\/\" target=\"_blank\">Both men and women in science are affected by<\/a> issues related to work-life balance, a new survey says. &#8220;More than half of the survey&#8217;s 4,225 respondents said work demands conflict with their personal lives at least two to three times a week,&#8221; <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> reports, citing data from the Association for Women in Science-commissioned analysis, underwritten by Elsevier. Among the worldwide respondents, 64 percent were employed in academia, while the remainder said they work in industry or at nonprofit or government institutes. &#8220;Forty-eight percent of women are unhappy with the way their work life meshes with their personal life, compared with 39 percent of men,&#8221; the <em>Chronicle <\/em> notes.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Donna Dean, who provided a preliminary analysis of the survey data, tells the <em>Chronicle <\/em>that work-life balance in science &#8220;is not a gender issue,&#8221; but rather, that it is &#8220;atmosphere-related. \u2026 Both men and women are struggling with this.&#8221; Still, male and female scientists are affected differently. &#8220;Nearly 40 percent of women said they short-circuited their childbearing plans, compared with 27 percent of men who said their careers stood in the way of starting a family,&#8221; the <em>Chronicle<\/em> says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Work-Life Balance Is Out of Reach for Many Male and Female Scientists\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/article-content\/131111\/\">http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/article-content\/131111\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both men and women in science are affected by issues related to work-life balance, a new survey says. &#8220;More than half of the survey&#8217;s 4,225 respondents said work demands conflict with their personal lives at least two to three times a week,&#8221; The Chronicle of Higher Education reports, citing data &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[56,17,87],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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