Re:Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science
by naish on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @10:55AM
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This article should give everyone pause for thought--women and men. It is a little disheartening to think that I went into engineering as a path to medicine (with better security and compensation) and got sidetracked by interesting work. As a tenure-track professor with an itch to pursue a startup, I am wondering if I should start scratching. If only there wasn't a family in the equation...
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Re:Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science
by geebee on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @12:38PM
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As a professor, you're probably in a pretty good position to start a family. As a professor, you're probably going to have to give the university a big cut of whatever benefit you generate, but at the same time, you probably have more freedom and autonomy than most. Plus, you have a steady salary. On the down side, I don't know how hard you're working to get tenure - maybe too hard to launch a meaningful effort at a startup.
I read that at Stanford, it's pretty common for a CS professor to have started a company, almost a rite of passage. So maybe this would work out for you...