“Do Babies Matter in Science? Family formation and career outcomes for women and men Ph.D.'s in STEMM"

For STEM faculty members who were not able to attend Dr. Mary Ann Mason’s presentation last November, “Do Babies Matter in Science? Family formation and career outcomes for women and men Ph.D.'s in STEMM," you may be interested to see the PowerPoint presentation she developed for our event.

As you may recall from our e-mail invitation announcing her visit to the Dayton region, Mary Ann Mason, lawyer, professor, co-director of the Center on Health, Economic & Family Security (CHEFS) at UC Berkeley School of Law, and former dean of the graduate division at UC Berkeley, is gaining national recognition for her comprehensive and data-driven research project, “Do Babies Matter?”

At the presentation, Mary Ann examined data from across the STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine) disciplines, revealing a major influence on the career paths of women and men in academic research: that is, the disparate effects of family formation on career trajectories of women and men Ph.D.'s.

In addition to her research, Mary Ann also talked about issues with the STEM pipeline and spoke briefly about her soon to be published white paper, “Patching America's Leaky Pipeline in the Sciences.” This paper has now been published and can now be found at the Center for American Progress website.