Boys need encouragement to be scientists - what do you think?

[Ms. Toad]

39. So - is the solution

to change the expectation that men don't need to spend time on/with their families? To modify the mechanisms of research funding and promotion so that employment in the field so demanding that it excludes activity outside of the job?

And, even if either of the above changes, what is the likelihood that men will actually spend time with their families rather than taking advantage of the "spare" time to find better ways to get ahead while the women juggling family plus job will still be less able to compete?

In other words - it it a problem with job expectations or societal expectations about who will primarily be responsible for tending the family (which will likely still leave women disproportionately in the mommy track)?