Time to keep score on female scientists

It seems quite obvious to me why this might be the case. You apply for fellowships during your post-doc. Incidentally, that's when lots of women start a family. Once you have a child, everything turns on its head (everyone with the family will confirm), and research jobs are not different. Although some institutions deal with this issue better then the others, academia is not set up to give a chance to mothers (and to be fair, fathers who take fatherhood in a non-traditional way)! Starting from lack of understanding from colleagues less junior to you, to times of meetings, to having to leave suddenly if the nursery calls that the child has been sick! And a number of other situations. Simply, being a mother/father entails life changes that are incompatible with burning the midnight oil writing papers and grant applications, because by what before midnight - you are burned out!