Despite these stimulating new vistas in research, however, I cannot help but remember a number of American and Canadian tenets from which I personally benefited as a family mother, and which I sorely miss here. The most basic of these is that women are valuable members of the academic community, they are efficient and creative researchers and good teachers. Therefore, allowances are made for those women who are mothers. There are special scholarships for women with children. In Canada, there is special financial support from social services for any single-mother who wants to improve her educational standard.
Universities routinely have day-care facilities for students and staff.
Job information is public information. Discrimination on the basis of sex is illegal. The benefits that I myself drew from women's integration in the North American academic community were many. They did not suffer any traumas as a result. In Marburg they were a subject of dismay, and housing was catastrophic, since in Germany visiting academics are gentlemen who leave their children at home.