7 Scientist, Engineer, Manager…Infertile A Guide to Navigating Your STEM Career while Struggling with Infertility

Priya Santhanam

Amazon, United States of America

DOI: 10.1201/9781003336495-9

Contents

  1. 7.1 Humble Beginnings
  2. 7.2 Ambition Calibration
  3. 7.3 Help Yourself
  4. 7.4 Help Your Colleague
  5. About the Author
  6. References

4.1 million

This is the number of women in STEM struggling with infertility1, 2.

When we talk about the challenges facing women in STEM today, what comes to your mind? For me, it all boils down to two things: Recruitment and Retention. A critical element of retention that we seem to be missing as a global society is infertility. While there are a lot of policies established for parenthood and beyond, there is very little addressing ...

Get Empowering Women in STEM now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial