When Scientists Choose Motherhood

Scientists and Motherhood » American Scientist

As the husband of another professor and a parent of twins, I agree that the demands of parenthood are a compelling reason that more women than men leave high-demand career tracks. In our culture, women still do more parenting than men, so the burden falls asymmetrically on them. I would also argue that, compared to men, women define their self-worth less through their careers and more through t...

When Motherhood Doesn't Come Naturally

The wish to have a child is a deep instinctual urge; the ability to care for the child is not innate and must be nurtured. In fact, many new mothers feel torn between their desire for a child and their wish to be free of long involvements and responsibilities. Becoming a mother is a testing time for a woman. Then she takes on the truly feminine role as opposed to just being a sex partner in a r...

When to Choose the Road Less Traveled.

Tax competition when firms choose their

We analyze a sequential game between two symmetric countries when firms can invest in a multinational structure that confers tax savings. Governments are able to commit to long-run tax discrimination policies before firms’ decisions are made and before statutory capital tax rates are chosen non-cooperatively. Whether a coordinated reduction in the tax preferences granted to mobile firms is bene...

When and how n choose k

We discuss different ways of generating k-subsets of an n-set, as well as of permutations, matrices and flags over the finite field Fq . Connections with the Markov Chain approach and Bruhat decomposition are established. The black box groups approach is defined. No previous knowledge of the subject is assumed.