Speaking up for academic moms: How gender inequity threatens future of higher education

WITH MOTHER’S DAY approaching, I would like to make my academic mom wish list out there.

It has been almost a decade since the PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Noyi had contributed to the debate about whether women can have it all or not. Indra Noyi mentioned that the biological clock and the career clock for women are in total conflict. Interestingly, 10 years later Adobe’s Chief People Officer and Executive Vice President, Employee Experience, Gloria Chen, mentioned the same challenge for women during the March 2024 Women in Leadership League Conference at San Jose State University for International Women’s Day.