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One Weird Trick to Keep Female Employees Happy. We all know the narrative about why women leave the workforce.

One Weird Trick to Keep Female Employees Happy

By now — decades after “the second shift,” five years after Sheryl Sandberg asked us to lean in, four years after we learned why “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” — conventional wisdom says that employers lose women in their 30s because those women are starting families, and need more flexibility than the workplace is designed to grant them. Well, here’s a shocker: A new global study of women in their 30s found they don’t leave jobs because they’re worried about family obligations. Frosty morning. I think this is the best picture I've ever taken. 4 things conservation scientists sometimes forget. An entomologist collecting moths from the fur of a three-toed sloth in Guyana.

4 things conservation scientists sometimes forget

Like other science fields, conservation research is constantly evolving; meetings like the International Congress of Conservation Biology allow conservation scientists to come together and exchange ideas. (© Piotr Naskrecki) Call me an eco-nerd, but I think conservation brings together some of the coolest human beings on the planet. I get a little star-struck when I get to shake hands with Kent Redford or have a glass of wine with Robin Naidoo or hear Ana Rodrigues speak about her passion for researching the historical ecology of whales based on — of all things — ancient manuscripts written by monks.

Recently in Montpellier, France, I joined a group of Conservation International (CI) staff attending the International Congress of Conservation Biology, a meeting of more than 2,000 conservation scientists, students, researchers and practitioners from over 70 countries. 1. Why I Identify as Mammal.

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