YES! I have been saying this for years, but my fellow PMCs look at me like I have three heads or I'm saying we should all live in a shoe with more kids than we know what do.
Human beings have limited fertility. It sucks, but it's part of life.
Professional life is designed around the idea that you are a male with a female partner who will bear and raise your children while you are attaining your professional credentials and leaving them to their own devices. That is no longer a valid design because we now want female professionals and male involvement in child rearing. Therefore, the system must be changed.
But if you say that every PhD program, medical school, start up, etc. should be designed so that it's NBD to take a year off for having a kid, you're crazy, how would that even work, anyway, have you heard about egg freezing??
Human beings have limited fertility. It sucks, but it's part of life.
Professional life is designed around the idea that you are a male with a female partner who will bear and raise your children while you are attaining your professional credentials and leaving them to their own devices. That is no longer a valid design because we now want female professionals and male involvement in child rearing. Therefore, the system must be changed.
But if you say that every PhD program, medical school, start up, etc. should be designed so that it's NBD to take a year off for having a kid, you're crazy, how would that even work, anyway, have you heard about egg freezing??