Women are well-represented in the early stages of academic science, and even outnumber men in some Ph.D. programs. But when it comes to the most senior jobs in science, men still outnumber women, sometimes by more than two to one. Could Ivanka Trump's paid parental leave proposal help stem the loss of women from science? Amy Apprill was pregnant when she arrived at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to begin a competitive eighteen-month post-doctoral fellowship. She wasn’t eligible for the