Mom the Chemistry Professor Personal Accounts and Advice from Chemistry Professors who are Mothers
When is the "right" time? How can I meet the demands of a professorship whilst caring for a young family? Choosing to become a mother has a profound effect on the career path of women holding academic positions, especially in the physical sciences. Yet many women successfully manage to do...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2018 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Safety Chapter
- The Best Job in the World
- Equilibrium and Stress: Balancing One Marriage, a “Two-Body Problem,” and Three Children
- If at First You Don’t Succeed, Don’t Give Up on Your Dreams
- Invictus
- My Circus: Please Note That I Have No Formal Training in Juggling
- Planned Serendipity
- Readymade Family
- Mother and Community College Professor
- From Pre-med to U.S. Professor of the Year: My Personal Journey
- Minha Vida e Minha Carreira e Minha Família (My Life and My Career and My Family)
- Chemistry in the Family
- Are You Always This Enthusiastic?
- How Motherhood Shaped My Professorship
- Upward Bound to a Ph.D. in Chemistry
- I’m.a.Gene- Destined for a Career in the Sciences
- It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done
- On Breastfeeding, Supramolecular Chemistry, and Long Commutes: Life as an Assistant Professor, Wife, and Busy Mother of Three
- TheWindow of Opportunity
- Pieces of a Puzzle
- Wanting It All
- On Our Own Terms
- Family First, Extraordinary Career
- Family Matters: How Family Influenced my Career
- Mother and Chemist: Every pitfall is an opportunity to rise with a new beginning
- Taking an Unconventional Route?
- The path to academia and motherhood: It takes a village
- Elements to Successful Motherhood and the Professoriate
- A Family Grows
- Teacher to Scientist and Back Again
- A Divinely Ordered Path
- Raising three children across three continents
- Ebony and Women and Science……. Oh My!
- From the Periodic Table to the Dinner Table
- The Bigger Picture: My Journey to a Purposeful Life and Career in Academia
- Encounters of the Positive Kind
- The Long and Winding Road
- I Finally Know What I Want to Be When I Grow Up
- Finding Rhythm
- My Not-So-Secret Double-Life as a Chemistry Professor and Mom
- Remarkable, Delightful, Awesome: It Will Change Your Life, Not Overnight but Over Time