Interviews

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1. 

   Scientist and Parent: Raising equality

   Providing more flexible parental support would reduce the assumption that mothers should be the main caregivers and make it easier for fathers like Modesto Redrejo-Rodríguez to share childcare responsibilities.
2. 

   Life story: Sofie Valk

   Science and parenthood can go together well.
3. 

   Life story: Petteri Karisto

   Children on campus may be an unusual sight, but if institutions are supportive it can help parents at the start of their science career.
4. 

   Life story: Alexis Barr

   Shared parenting and flexible working times make everything a lot easier.
5. 

   Life story: Viki Male

   Being a parent can push you to reach for higher goals.
6. 

   Life story: Rogier Kievit

   Having a child makes you focus on the things that truly matter.
7. 

   Life story: Bede Portz

   With the right advisor, having children during a PhD can be a great joy, but lack of affordable childcare is a problem.
8. 

   Scientist and Parent: Finding joy in the balancing act

   Flexible working hours and a supportive lab allow Rebecca Burdine to organize her research around caring for her children.
9. 

   Life story: Douglas D Garrett

   If you want to be a scientist parent, come to Germany.
10. 

    Life story: Daniel Fabian and Susanne Franssen

    Things rarely go as planned.