Author Interviews, Education, Nature / 12.01.2017
Most Biomedical PostDocs Lose Out on Salary and Tenure
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Prof. Shulamit (Shu) Kahn
Department of Markets, Public Policy and Law
Questrom School of Business
Boston University
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: We started this research because Donna Ginther (Kansas) and I had an NIH R01 to study gender differences in biomedical careers. We quickly discovered that a major problem for women was the fact that between many years of graduate study and long postdocs, their biological clocks had almost expired before they would have a decent amount of time in their lives to think about having children.
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