Interesting Features at PWN for 3.30.15

News from the PWN Pipeline:

"Women don't need work-life balance to be happy, we've just assumed they do."

An interesting article from Harriet Minter of The Guardian sheds some light on lingering corporate beliefs that women leave their positions in order to stay home with the children. Termed 'benevolent sexism', Minter indicates that decisions are being made about the upward career trajectory of women based on assumptions of what they may want in the future or needing to achieve a certain work-life balance, instead of focusing on current ambitions, productivity and goals.


Advancement Opportunities

Postdoctoral Research Association position available in the Laboratory of Alcoholism and Addictions at Washington State University

Fantastic postdoctoral research opportunity for a candidate with a PhD in a biological psychology- or neuroscience-related discipline with experience in using pharmacological, immunohistochemical, molecular or genetic/epigenetic approaches to understand and/or modify behavior as well as a publication background. The successful candidate would join a multidisciplinary research program to participate in NIH-funded translational alcohol dependence neuroscience research. Research training would include theoretical and technical training in preclinical models integrating behavioral animal models with neuroscientific techniques to elucidate neuroadaptations in limbic and cortical dynorphin/kappa opioid receptor systems that promote maladaptive behavioral regulation in models of alcohol dependence and neuropsychiatric disorder.

Interested applications: CV | Statement of research interests
Send to: Principal Investigator, Brendan Walker, PhD | b_walker@wsu.edu