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Imagine that you have finished a PhD in philosophy in Germany.1 You want to apply for a post-doc programme and need a recommendation from your research supervisor. You find out that you are pregnant with your second child, but you have a reliable child-care provider and an unusually supportive husband. When you inform your supervisor, he announces that he will no longer support your career, since a mother should stay home with her children rather than do research.2
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Abels, G. (2012). Research by, for and about Women: Gendering Science and Research Policy. In: Abels, G., Mushaben, J.M. (eds) Gendering the European Union. Gender and Politics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230353299_10
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