This study addresses the obstacles and lack of support available for physics students who are also parents. The purpose of this study is to provide physics parents with strategies that other students like them have used and provide ideas for universities and physics faculty to support physics students who are raising children. Majoring in physics could present a challenge to any parents, given the demands of the major. Further, given the low numbers of women in physics and previous research on student parents, it is likely that majoring in physics might be an extra burden for women who are parenting. Given the need for people trained as physicists and engineers, finding ways to support parents in physics could have benefits all around: It could increase the pool of highly trained STEM workers, while diversifying physics and also helping parents prepare for careers that can support their families.
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Parenting and Physics: How to Support Physics Students Who Are Raising Children
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Sex, Gender, and Physics Teaching
Rose Young
Rose Young
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
, St. Mary’s City, MD; [email protected]
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Phys. Teach. 58, 382–386 (2020)
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Rose Young; Parenting and Physics: How to Support Physics Students Who Are Raising Children. Phys. Teach. 1 September 2020; 58 (6): 382–386. https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0001831
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