Are women being held back by an ‘innate difference’: their ability to give birth? With better academic policies, motherhood and scientific excellence would not seem mutually exclusive, says Virginia Gewin.
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Virginia Gewin is a freelance science writer in Portland, Oregon.
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Gewin, V. Baby blues. Nature 433, 780–781 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7027-780a
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