Back in September, I published an interview with mathematician and mom Constance Leidy by mathematician and mom Lillian Pierce. It was part of a series of interviews for the Association for Women in Mathematics about how women balance motherhood with their mathematical careers. (You can find another interview in this series at Cathy O’Neil’s blog mathbabe.org.)
Shortly after I posted the interview with Leidy, mathematician Darren Glass tweeted me:
.@evelynjlamb I literally dropped off my tenure dossier on the way to the airport to adopt my son. #YayParentalLeave
— Darren Glass (@darrenglass) September 12, 2013
I was curious about the story behind the tweet, so I asked him if he’d be willing to talk to me about mathematics, fatherhood, and adoption for the blog, and he graciously agreed. Especially now that fathers are often more involved in parenting than they were a generation or two ago, it’s interesting to learn how both men and women balance their careers and their family lives. As Glass said to me before our interview, “When people talk about issues of women in academia, men often have some of the same issues.” This is an edited transcript of our conversation. Links were (obviously) added by me.
Read the full interview at Roots of Unity.
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