The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 27, 2009, by Mary Ann Mason
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Unless the old academic culture—which discourages family formation at all levels but is particularly unfriendly to graduate-student parenthood—radically changes, we are in danger of losing many of our best and brightest minds to other professions. There has been some movement to accommodate new faculty parents, but by then it is already too late to capture many disaffected graduate students who have already found careers elsewhere.