I can't speak for anyone else but personally I have five go-to meals that happen fast with a minimum of prep work:

I don't think you're unfeminist at all. I think you're in an awesome position and you should enjoy it without feeling needless guilt. Mothers get guilted either way. Leaving your kid to go to work? Bad mom! Staying home with your kid? Bad feminist! Whatever. Screw 'em. You do you.

That's extra bad because physicians are among the very few professionals who actually have the option to do well-paid, fulfilling, part-time work (depending somewhat on specialty of course). Once you get through the horrible 7-10 years of training the options for work-life balance actually start to look pretty good.

I'm having trouble thinking about what it means to be ambitious. I feel strongly that I want to like and enjoy my work, and have some autonomy in it, and also that I need to have enough time to care for my family's needs and not be a sleepless zombie. I don't care about being top dog in my field but unfortunately it…

I really think it depends how well you manage it. My diabetic grandfather is 93 and perfectly functional. Still working part time in fact (he's a physician and he is fanatically correct about his insulin).

They didn't cut its throat, they snapped its neck. That's pretty instantaneous and the animal does not scream. Come to think of it I have seen animals slaughtered by having their throats cut (chickens, goats, sheep), and they don't scream either because their windpipes have been severed.

Sure, but if parenthood or impending parenthood is a major financial motivator then it could well show a statistically significant effect on productivity *even if other major financial motivators also exist*. (Those motivators might also show statistically significant effects on productivity of course, but they were…

I mean, it should be glaringly obvious that women with young children would be less productive, since they are having a major medical event and then the equivalent of a second, unpaid and unrecognized job. The interesting point about this paper is that they appear to catch up and even surpass other academics over the…

Or, I should say, presumably either they catch up or the ones who don't catch up don't ever make it past assistant professor and therefore aren't in the statistics for the more senior academic ranks.

Yes, and it's also important that gender disparities in publication rate vary widely by field. The reported study focused only on women in economics. However there are data for more fields in this recent paper from Wendy Williams' group.

Totally. The moms who were equally (or less, of course) productive than their peers presumably just didn't get tenure.

But they'd have to actually be over-compensating.

But you're saying that you hope to have children soon, and part of your motivation to work hard is to increase your financial stability before having kids. The study was a life-course analysis and they looked at women both before and after having kids. So what you're saying actually supports craisinz' point - you…

It looks pretty similar to cellulose (couple of extra atoms on one side of the ring monomer) and you probably eat that all the time.

You know, I do skip the novocaine for shallow cavities because I prefer a short period of discomfort to having my face feel huge and numb for the next three hours. Similarly with the epidural, I prefer being able to get up, walk around, and assert myself postbirth (and during for that matter) versus being stuck to a…

I seriously doubt there were an equivalent number of white guys to all the black and Latino guys. Statistically it would have been practically impossible for *all* the white guys to happen to be bad shots if there were significant numbers of them. I bet they weren't more than 10% in the first place. (Based on 20…

Where do you live? In a small town or rural area where most people know each other, obviously a friendly greeting is not threatening. When you live in NYC and you are passing thousands of other people on the street every day, it's totally infeasible to say 'hi' to all of them. Therefore if someone singles you out…

Your hourly will go up even if you work for a company (and they are exploitative, as I mentioned what I recall is making $50/h while the company was charging like $300/h - it was worth it to me not to have to hunt down customers and set my own prices).

You're charging $20 per hour to tutor math and chemistry? You need to raise your prices. I made $20 per hour doing individual tutoring in high school in the early-mid 90s. In college and grad school in the late 90s and early 2000s it was more like $50 per hour (working for a company so they were charging…

But then why does the association invert when you switch the sex of the partner?