2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
5/24/2021 | 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM | Motherhood and Field Science: Challenges, Strategies and Supports for Success | Virtual Platform
Motherhood and Field Science: Challenges, Strategies and Supports for Success
Working women who are mothers face innumerable challenges. In the United States there are no federal mandates that provide supportive strategies for employees with dependents, making these challenges fall on the shoulders of women to overcome on their own. For female field scientists, the additional challenge of extensive travel, often in remote environments to collect data, adds another dynamic that women must navigate. The purpose of this study was to examine challenges women who are field scientists may face managing both work and parenthood, and the strategies and supports that help women to be successful. Results indicate that women face challenges conducting field work, biology of motherhood (timing, breastfeeding), feelings of guilt managing work-family balance, and childcare and household responsibilities. Strategies and supports that help working female field scientists include paid help, supportive partner/family, and financial resources. Unfortunately, many women have to rely on more individualized approaches to manage work-family balance such as accepting to change job responsibilities, reducing work performance, and changing expectations of career success.
- Career
- Female scientists
- Inclusivity
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Anja Whittington
(), Radford University, awhittington@radford.edu;
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Tara Pelletier
(), Radford University, tpelletier@radford.edu;
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