"Certainly our most important finding has been that family negatively affects women’s, but not men’s,..."

“Certainly our most important finding has been that family negatively affects women’s, but not men’s, early academic careers. Furthermore, academic women who advance through the faculty ranks have historically paid a considerable price for doing so, in the form of much lower rates of family formation, fertility, and higher rates of family dissolution.” For men, however, the pattern has been either neutral or even net-positive.”

- Marc Goulden (via New book on gender, family and academe shows how kids affect careers in higher education | Inside Higher Ed)