[Womeninmedicine] NYTimes.com: How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession

[Krishnamurti, Tamar Priya]

Piece from The New York Times with some interesting stats:

How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession

Female doctors are more likely than other professionals to have children and keep working. The reasons offer lessons for other jobs.

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Britni Hebert was chief resident, on track for a career in the highly demanding field of oncology, when she found out she was having twins. “Everything kind of just tilted on its head,” she ...

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