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Another piece of this: they're ignoring that only women are expected to choose between family and career. A male academic who wants children isn't seen as "choosing family over career," and rarely delays his education or career in order to care for those children. Yes, women bear all the children: most childcare does not take place in the months between conception and weaning, and if the baby is bottle-fed (formula or pumped breast milk), fathers are as capable as mothers of taking care of the children from the very beginning.