Women in grad school and doctorates

>>8470933
It's not a career-asking thread. It's asking about why academia is not conducive to a healthy mental life or personal life.

>>8470928
So which question do you want answered? All we can see is a convoluted blogpost that doesn't get to the point of your query. Mind rephrasing in a few sentences instead?

>>8470939
1. Why does academia get next to no funding?
2. Why is grad school, doctorate school, and medical school so grueling and not conducive to a family life?
3.If you are female and in a stem field, do you feel that your program or focus does not have an anti-maternal attitude?
4. If advanced programs have such a high divorce rate, why does no one seem to care?

>>8470937
so it's your fucking blog?
get lost

>>8470945
1. Because a lot of time spent researching things is spent ruling out ideas. I've been working on my thesis for a year; I didn't make any noteworthy progress for the first 3 months.
2. Because research is tough.
3. Not a chick.
4. Because that's the way it should be; it wouldn't be advanced if anyone could do it.

>>8470945
1) A lot of competition.
2) Because the world doesn't revolve around you. You have to make sacrifices or work your ass off. Often both.
3) Anti-maternal is a meme. Everyone gets that procreation is important, but men can't just take 6 months off (in some countries paid) and then pick up where they left off, why should women.
4) Would you want someone significantly less intelligent or capable than you as your doctor?

>>8470945
1. Because post secondary education has become a parody of itself. All people see are hyphenated Americans protesting the lack of transnigger bathrooms on campus.

2. You don't absolutely need a family, do you? Do you think men who pursue higher education don't make sacrifices? What you're complaining about isn't even an inability to access education, which is a valid concern; you're actually admitting that it takes dedications that you simply don't have.

3. There's no anti-material attitude and I am not female. Also, I've known for a while that this is a troll post.

4. Whatever.

>>8470928
I'm a bit confused about what you're asking. However, I'm a female in a PhD comp bio program. Grad school as a whole doesn't seem too amenable to taking x months off at a time. It kinda sucks to make your PI pay for you to take time off, because that's time they're not publishing anything and you're not moving forward with your experiments. Also science is inherently competitive and someone will gladly pick up work/ideas you aren't pursuing. I've heard the last year of grad school is a good time to have kids because you're doing a lot of writing, which can be done at home. I started grad school at 22, so I'll probably do the kid thing around my last year as well.

>>8470928
It's just the way the system is set up.

If you want a career in academia then you have to accept that you are going to be spending a most of your time trying to get funding and dealing with other shit (eg. teaching undergrads) not related to research. Furthermore, besides the work itself being really hard and more or less never ending (thinking about your research will consume an unhealthy portion of your daily life whereas normal people don't have to think about work at all once they clock out) it also pays shitty and has poor job security (it's very competitive and you can end up out of a job by your 40s).

Anyone career minded who isn't privileged enough to invest a ton of money in a bad job with poor pay and poor job security (if they even manage to land a job in the first place) just because they "really like it" is unlikely to go into academia.

>>8470933
>JUST
what is this /pol/ meme again?

>>8470945
>Why does academia get next to no funding?
This is a relative thing. The problem is the government deliberately cultivates a vast oversupply of qualified people in STEM both to stretch the taxpayer grant dollar further and strengthen industry by pushing down wages. Underfunding is just a natural part of cold war/post-cold war life.

>Why is grad school, doctorate school, and medical school so grueling and not conducive to a family life?
>anti-maternal attitude
You should see Whiplash (2014)
True dedication is an inherently dehumanizing thing.
The sort of people who become scientists are the sort who dedicate themselves to higher and more meaningful pursuits than being baby factories. By all means start a family, but the more competing obligations you take on the less useful you ultimately are and the more likely it is someone with a narrower set of priorities will overtake and outcompete you. Think of an undergrad who prioritizes drinking and partying over studying - you have an edge over him if you have put aside those additional goals of his.

>>8470945
>divorce
Competing priorities, stress, certain difficulties normal people have relating to you

>>8470928
get over it

>>8471289
>You should see Whiplash
This is probably your best bet if you're looking for insight into the lifestyle

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