Adam Levy 00:00
Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Off Limits: Academia’s Taboos, a podcast from Nature Careers. In this episode: fertility and parenthood.
Academia can be incredibly, overwhelmingly, demanding.
Many feel that they have to dedicate all their time and energy to establishing and sustaining a successful career.
But many don’t want an all-encompassing career. And there are profound parts of life that can get pushed to the sidelines by these demands.
And of course, for many, this includes parenthood. Today, we’re going to speak with several researchers about the strain academia places on parents and those hoping to become parents.
And we’re going to start off with a discussion of fertility, a topic that remains taboo in many circles, including in academia.
Let me introduce you to biological anthropologist Alison Behie, head of the school of archeology and anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Alison Behie 01:14
I’m really interested in, sort of the evolutionary explanations for why humans behave the way they do, and why we see certain patterns in everything from reproduction to stress to disease.
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