Mom the Chemistry Professor Personal Accounts and Advice from Chemistry Professors who are Mothers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cole, Renée (Editor), Marzabadi, Cecilia (Editor), Webster, Gail (Editor), Woznack, Kimberly (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Engineering > Vocational guidance.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.; Job Careers in Science and Engineering.; Gender Studies.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Stacey Lowery Bretz: Equilibrium and Stress: Balancing one Marriage, a "Two-Body-Problem", and Three Children
• Pamela Ann McElroy Brown: If at First you Don't Succeed, Don't Give Up on your Dreams
• Amber Charlebois: My Circus: please note that I have no formal training in juggling
• Renee Cole: Planned Serendipity
• Elizabeth Dorland: Mother and Professor in a Community College
• Cheryl Baldwin Frech: Chemistry in the Family
• Megan L. Grunert: Safety and Motherhood in the Chemistry Research Lab.- Judith Iriarte-Gross: Upward Bound to a Ph.D. in Chemistry
• Nancy E. Levinger: The Window of Opportunity
• Cecilia H. Marzabadi: Wanting it All
• Janet Morrow: Taking the Unconventional Route
• Danielle Tullman-Ercek: From the Periodic Table to the Dinner Table
• Gail Hartmann Webster: The Long and Winding Road
• Catherine O. Welder: I finally Know What I Want to be When I Grow Up!.-Sherryl J. Yennello: Remarkable, Delightful, Awesome: It will change your Life, not Overnight but over Time.