Balancing Family and Career

Organizing Committee: Barbara Sandow (Germany, Chair) Kwang-Hua Chang (Korea), Janice McKenna (Canada),

Yosr Gamal (Egypt)

Discussion Leaders: Barbara Sandow, Corinna Kausch (Germany), Monika Bessenrodt-Weberpals (Germany),

Janice McKenna

Recorders: Helen Heath (UK), Yasmin Andrew (UK),

Joanna Hamilton (UK), Nathalie Balcaen (Belgium)

Recommendation:

In general: Science career and family

• Encouragement for new role models

• Considering new career paths

• Scheme of ” academic ” age

• Mentoring schemes and networking

Job models:

• Change the male system of science, so that family work

is valued

• Consider a work-life balancing with flexible working hours, also sometime part-time work

• Early permanent positions

Child care: ”from a managed household to a

caring community”

• High-quality child care for children

• of any age

• over the whole day

• near the workplace

• in specific situations, like conferences, holidays, illness

Dual career couples (DCCs):

”Solve the 2-body problem”

• Consideration of specific DCCs difficulties

• Offers to DCCs as a whole science family

Advice for young people:

• Be prepared for foreign experience.

• Be flexible in early career.

• Plan your own career path including your private life.

• Be prepared to be fend for oneself.

• Use networking.

Support from the partner.

Advice for older people:

!!!!Support younger people – if you have them!!!