How to survive and thrive in the mother-mentor marathon.
This article is for women who ask whether it is possible to combine motherhood with academia and still be successful and happy. It is also for those working with, bosses of, or married to such women, giving them a better feel for the challenges mothers in academia face, and the strategies that can be used to survive and thrive in both of these worlds.
Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. galit@hms.harvard.edu
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