title: Accounting for career breaks.
authors.affiliation: Emily Nicholson is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Integrative Ecology at Deakin University, Melbourne Burwood, in Australia. She is grateful to Mick McCarthy and Emma Johnston for their advice. For more on life and careers, visit sciencecareers.org. Send your story to SciCareerEditor@aaas.org.
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nicholson
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007586:Job Application; D009035:Mothers; D016524:Parental Leave; D014931:Women, Working