Family formation—most importantly marriage and childbirth—accounts for the largest leaks in the pipeline between Ph.D. receipt and the acquisition of tenure for women in the sciences.
- "Women in the Sciences" report, Center for American Progress
I sometimes wonder if the womb is our Faustian bargain with the universe, giving us the bliss of breastmilk and wombs, in exchange for questioning the universe?
Killing us softly with its song, of baby showers and milk smells, driving us deeper into the abyss of childbirth and death, while our creative juices get transmuted from the laboratory to the nursery.
2 comments:
You're right. I do love it. I always thought about this but never could eloquently express it like how you have done. Thanks for putting my thoughts into words. I am taking solace in the fact that I'm not the only one with such thoughts, which some hardliners might consider so unholy for our society..
Seriously Karishma..s..w the hardliners.
the Dark Ages are over..long ago m:))
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