The lack of affordable childcare threatens the retention of scientist parents, especially mothers and those of colour.
. “We are losing women, and it is very frustrating to watch really good colleagues leave academia,” says Mariya Sweetwyne, a renal-cell biologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and a founder of a crowdfunding campaign. “I’m so grateful of all the people who donated, but it’s outrageous that we need to solicit private donations to offer a lifeline to a minoritized mother’s career,” she says.
In many instances, the donations come from other academic mums, a group hit hard by pandemic strain. The irony is not lost on Sweetwyne that individual mothers are trying to help academic institutions fix their pipeline issues. “We’re not doing it for [the institutions]. We’re doing it for us,” she says of the almost 1,000 donors to the fund. Institutions, she adds, should do much more to address ongoing childcare concerns.
Beasley estimates that she kept her daughter in childcare for 40% of her time in graduate school, in part because it was too expensive. The rest of the time, she worked nights and weekends, when her husband could look after their child. Once she finishes her current postdoctoral position at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,. “I can influence my community without being subjected to low wages,” she says.
Although crowdfunding childcare is a stop-gap attempt to staunch the flow of scientist mothers, especially those from under-represented groups, from leaving academia, long-term measures are needed. A 2022 perspective piecepublished in Academic Medicine called for childcare stipends as part of US National Institutes of Health grants to address persistent racial and gender disparities in physician-scientists.
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