{"id":1951,"date":"2026-03-18T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:34:56","slug":"caregiving-responsibilities-hold-back-young-women-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/caregiving-responsibilities-hold-back-young-women-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Caregiving responsibilities hold back young women scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Young women scientists are gradually disappearing through the \u201cleaky pipeline.\u201d Especially during the crucial years for career advancement, caregiving responsibilities\u2014such as childcare or looking after relatives\u2014slow down emerging researchers. At the premiere of the new talk series <em>\u201cScience Lounge \u2013 What\u2019s Shaping the World of Science,\u201d<\/em> <strong>ERN chairmwoman<\/strong> <strong>Karen Kastenhofer<\/strong> (\u00d6AW), together with phsycologist Stefanie Lietze, (Equal Opportunity Representative of IT:U Linz) and economist Sophie Achleitner (Momentum Institute) spoke with Alice Senarclens de Grancy from <em>Die Presse<\/em> about what measures are needed to help young women scientists escape the \u201cleaky pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The recent <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/socarxiv\/u4a9k_v1\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"393\">survey<\/a> within the Elise-Richter Network among female academics found that universities lose particularly many excellent women who have already made significant progress but then leave academia for a variety of reasons. Among the difficulties cited are the workload and the extent of work that is common in academia. Geographic mobility is also a factor. It is often required but generally difficult to reconcile with family responsibilities and caregiving duties.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a3c2a82d-859c-46ac-a164-6804b3572179-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1952 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a3c2a82d-859c-46ac-a164-6804b3572179-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a3c2a82d-859c-46ac-a164-6804b3572179-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a3c2a82d-859c-46ac-a164-6804b3572179-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/a3c2a82d-859c-46ac-a164-6804b3572179.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The full video of interview in german can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diepresse.com\/20660189\/sorgeverpflichtungen-bremsen-junge-wissenschaftlerinnen\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young women scientists are gradually disappearing through the \u201cleaky pipeline.\u201d Especially during the crucial years for career advancement, caregiving responsibilities\u2014such<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/caregiving-responsibilities-hold-back-young-women-scientists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caregiving responsibilities hold back young women scientists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-positions","category-news"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"wen-travel-archive":false,"wen-travel-slider":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Vera Pfanzagl","author_link":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/author\/pfanzagl\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Young women scientists are gradually disappearing through the \u201cleaky pipeline.\u201d Especially during the crucial years for career advancement, caregiving responsibilities\u2014suchContinue readingCaregiving responsibilities hold back young women scientists","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliserichter.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}