In this episode, Judith and Erin discuss their individual journeys through their Ph.D. program, including getting married, having children, moving into the prospectus and qualifying exam, managing the dissertation process, and the successful defense of their projects. 

This episode refers to the book Do Babies Matter?: Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower

by Mary Ann Mason, Nicholas H. Wolfinger, Marc Goulden.

Publication details are available at https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/do-babies-matter/9780813567150.

This episode also refers to the article: "What took them so long? Explaining PhD delays among doctoral candidates" by Rens Van de Schoot, Mara A. Yerkes, Jolien M. Mouw, and Hans Sonneveld. 

Publication details and article PDF are available at:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0068839

Opening and closing song, "Vienna Beat"  by  Blue Dot Sessions  is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial License and shared through the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/RadioPink/Vienna_Beat