Spring 2012
- Exploring the Arctic from Space
- What has Facebook done to us?
- What has Facebook done to us?
- Is complex life a freak accident?
- The triumph of Human Rights: dream or nightmare?
- The lure of the Kremlin: the court of Ivan the Terrible and global networks in the 16th century
- Cutting to cure cancer the 'the limits set by nature'
- The mystery of Master Humphrey: one of Dickens's most enigmatic characters
- John Bull vs Stinkomalee: Tory opposition in the early days of the University of London (now UCL)
- The metaphysics of concrete
- Genetic testing for risk of heart disease: fact or fiction?
- From Euclid to modern geometry: do the angles of a triangle really add up to 180?
- The Great American Novel: how and why?
- Patents stop people doing things. So why are they a good thing?
- Having it all: dispelling the myths about work and motherhood
- The search for genius and Einstein's brain
- 3D imaging: nanotechnology and the quest for better medical sensors
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Having it all: dispelling the myths about work and motherhood
13 March 2012
8 March 2012
Dr Anne McMunn (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health)
We hear a lot about the stresses of juggling motherhood with paid work, and the subsequent harm this might cause children. However, this lecture to mark International Women’s Day discusses evidence from UK cohort studies following generations of men and women which suggests that working mothers not only end up healthier in mid-life, but that their daughters may also end up happier too.
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