'The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on mothers in academic science, bringing long-standing issues to the fore. A study done during the very early stages of the pandemic found that scientists with at least one child aged five or younger were spending 17% less time on research than they had previously'

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Pandemic productivity loss: how scientific institutions should support academic mothers

Three years on, scientist mums implore universities, funding agencies and publishers to heed calls to account for COVID-19 disruptions.