/ Conferences Content for 69���� en /news/solving-conferencechild-care-career-conundrum <p>A group of female academics is calling on scientific conferences to do more to accommodate nursing mothers and parents to help normalize parenthood in academia — removing a significant barrier to women beginning their careers in science.</p> <p>“Nursing and child care, most often provided by women, are not a luxury; they are a biological necessity,” said Rebecca Calisi Rodriguez, assistant professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior at the University of California, Davis, who is organizing the effort.</p> March 05, 2018 - 3:06pm Andy Fell /news/solving-conferencechild-care-career-conundrum