Juggling through Life’s Transitions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Section I. 1970s
6. Balancing Family and Career Demands with 20/20 Hindsight 21
7. Extreme Motherhood: You Can’t Get There from Here 31
8. Careers versus Child Care in Academia 35
9. Identities: Looking Back over Forty Years as a Social Scientist, Woman, and Mother 41
10. Costs and Rewards of Success in Academia, or Bouncing into the Rubber Ceiling 51
11. One Set of Choices as a Mom and Scientist 56
12. Section II. 1980s
13. Three Sides of the Balance 61
14. The Accidental Astronomer 67
15. At Home with Toxicology: A Career Evolves 73
16. Geological Consulting and Kids: An Unpredictable Balancing Act? 79
17. Career Scientists and the Shared Academic Position 83
18. Section III. 1990s
19. Less Pay, a Little Less Work 89
20. Reflections of a Female Scientist with Outside Interests 98
21. Part-Time at a National Laboratory: A Split Life 102
22. The Eternal Quest for Balance: A Career in Five Acts, No Intermission 108
23. Reflections on Motherhood and Science Teresa Capone Cook 113
24. The Benefits of Four-Dumbbell Support 117
25. Extraordinary Commitments of Time and Energy 121
26. Finding My Way Back to the Bench: An Unexpectedly Satisfying Destination 125
27. Mothering Primates 130
28. Finding the Right Balance, Personal and Professional, as a Mother in Science 135
29. What? I Don’t Need a PhD to Potty-Train My Children? 140
30. Variety, Challenge, and Flexibility: The Benefits of Straying from the Narrow Path 145
31. The Balancing Act 148
32. Juggling through Life’s Transitions 153
33. Having It All, Just Not All at the Same Time 156
34. Section IV. 2000s
35. Exploring Less-Traveled Paths 163
36. Standing Up 172
37. Because of Our Mom, a True Rocket Scientist 177
38. On Being What You Love 183
39. Parsimony Is What We Are Taught, Not What We Live 187
40. Role Models: Out with the Old and In with the New 194
41. Pursuing Science and Motherhood 199
42. Conclusion 203
43. Contributors 209