Interviews
Let's Get Physiological, with Eleanor Newton
In this interview, our co-founder/CEO, Isabel Torres, along with Lisa Heather, an Associate Professor at Oxford University, discussed balancing the pressures of academia with motherhood and the role systemic structural barriers play in pushing mothers away from their academic careers.
Overcoming Working Mom Burnout podcast, with Dr Jaqueline Kerr
In this interview with Dr Jacqueline Kerr, our co-founder/CEO, Isabel Torres, discussed the societal and systematic barriers facing mothers in STEMM and suggested strategic ways to promote equity and inclusion of caregivers in the STEMM sector.
Chats with STEMinists podcast, by UNDP STEM4ALL
Isabel Torres, our co-founder/CEO, discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic magnified longstanding inequities suffered by mothers in STEMM and how the pandemic is also a timely opportunity to push for change on a systemic level and increase retention of women in STEMM careers.
Useful Science podcast
In this episode of the popular ‘Useful Science’ podcast, our co-founder Isabel Torres and co-hosts Jaime Devine, Cameron Spencer and Michael Gaultois discussed the challenges of combining parenthood and an academic career. Isabel also discussed the preliminary results from the Mothers in Science pre-pandemic global survey.
Gotara
In an interview for the TARATALK series, our co-founder/CEO spoke about the maternal wall and how motherhood biases and gender stereotypes cause the STEM leaky pipeline. She also shared her own experience as a mother in STEMM and how the maternal wall impacted on her career. You can also read an article with the summary of this interview here.
