Ms.PhD has left a new comment on your post "Hypocrisy!":
I don't get it. The line about how you can't be a mentor, because you're a mother? I get that you don't have time right now. I don't get why it's okay for you to be in grad school if that's really what you think. Do you think you'll never have time to be a mentor? Or do you assume that your kid(s) will be older by the time you're a PI, and then it will all be manageable?
Obviously you've thought about this some, since you're aware of the hypocrisy of the problem that this busy female PI with a family is probably exactly the right advisor for you.
But try thinking of it this way: you're committing the most egregious crime against any woman scientist anywhere: holding her to unrealistic standards you don't apply to any males.
Now, go get a clue, and stop expecting any PI to hand-hold you through protocols. That's not her job, and you should know that by now unless you just started grad school yesterday. If you can't put in the time to figure it out the hard way, you're not going to make it in science. If you can't get independent right quick, you never will, no matter who your advisor is.
Posted by Ms.PhD to academicsecret at 6/04/2007 3:28 AM
