less so for women where a late baby break likely sets back your career more than the delay due to having a small child early e.g. during university
In practice having a small child during university usually leads to dropping out of university. Anecdotally, I’m in university currently and cannot imagine having to take care of a small child when I’m already struggling to get 8 hours of sleep a night just doing my schoolwork, internship hunt and extracurriculars. From my vantage point having a child while young and unmarried in university seems like a much, much more career (and life) destroying move than having a child in one’s early thirties with a co-parent, even in a career like academia where that coincides with the race for tenure. Elaborate on why you think the opposite?
Cultural bias I guess. In Germany part time story with children is quite possible. There are special rules for it. And the competition at university doesn’t seem to be as strong as in the US. My sister has too small girls and does study in education, so this is not hearsay.
In practice having a small child during university usually leads to dropping out of university. Anecdotally, I’m in university currently and cannot imagine having to take care of a small child when I’m already struggling to get 8 hours of sleep a night just doing my schoolwork, internship hunt and extracurriculars. From my vantage point having a child while young and unmarried in university seems like a much, much more career (and life) destroying move than having a child in one’s early thirties with a co-parent, even in a career like academia where that coincides with the race for tenure. Elaborate on why you think the opposite?
Cultural bias I guess. In Germany part time story with children is quite possible. There are special rules for it. And the competition at university doesn’t seem to be as strong as in the US. My sister has too small girls and does study in education, so this is not hearsay.