The extra social stuff and office housekeeping (like one girl had to buy a coffee maker for the lab) can be overwhelming. I've interacted with both industry and academia and one woman came back 2 weeks after giving birth to climb over a digester in a waste plant. #womeninstem #womenengineers #womeninsteam #feministscience #academicwomen #feministsciencestudies #feministsciencesubstack #phdadvice #stemadvice #researchlife