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Children and a career: Both are possible at Hannover Medical School – because of the good childcare
They are living their dream job and family: Christoph Jacobi (48) (top left picture) and Imeke Goldschmidt (47) (far right) with their children Henriette (6), Mareike (9), Anneke (12) and Hannah (15) (left to right).
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Hanover. Imeke Goldschmidt always wanted to have at least three children, she says. But she wanted more besides family life: a challenging position in her profession as a doctor, pediatric gastroenterologist: not a job as a part-time mom on the sidelines. “It’s a legitimate interest to have children while doing a demanding, challenging job,” she says. Today she even has four children, aged six, nine, twelve and 15 – and a part-time position in a university clinic. Goldschmidt works partly in MHH children’s gastroenterology, partly she does research. Her husband Christoph Jacobi is a senior physician in neonatology, the early and newborn ward of the MHH. Both work 75 percent.
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You are one of the impressive number of people at MHH who work part-time rather than full-time. The Hannover Medical School has a total of 9,249 employees. A third of them do not have a full job but a reduced job: 3607 people in total. Part-time work is distributed differently in the various professional groups: a third of all female doctors work reduced hours, among nurses it is even half.
“Our children felt at home in the day care center”
Nevertheless: Without the MHH day-care center, Imeke Goldschmidt and Christoph Jacobi agree, they would probably not have found the courage to raise four children while working in a university clinic. The fact that this was possible has to do with the flexible drop-off and pick-up times at the MHH. Unlike in some other daycare centers, there are no set times for this within the framework of 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., the daycare center adapts to the individual needs of the parents. This is all the more important because the two doctors work full days when they work – and know that their children are well looked after in the day care center until they have finished their work. In addition, there is a good educational offer. Not only that so many of the children’s interests are encouraged there. The two say their children felt at home in the daycare center. Of course, her family model also has disadvantages: she would sometimes wish that at the weekend it was not a question of which parent was on duty, but that both were free, says Imeke Goldschmidt. All in all, however, she lives her working life. and her family dream.
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Family instead of full time?
More than a third of all employees at MHH do not work full-time but part-time.
The university clinic has a total of 9,249 employees. 5642 have a full digit, another 3607 have a reduced digit. Most of them are women. 3029 women who work in a part-time model are compared to just 578 men.
Reduced working models are not only distributed differently among men and women, but also in the various professional groups. Most part-time models are available at the MHH in nursing. Half of the women there (940 from 1825) work reduced. There are just 149 men. A third of the female doctors (228 out of 664) work part-time. On the other hand, there are 109 part-time doctors. In research, half of the women work part-time (869 of 1748 women), the other half full-time. 174 men are doing research in reduced positions. jr
A model from which the employer apparently also benefits: the extensive, shift-based care times and the pedagogically valuable care provided by the company daycare center very likely mean that women return to work earlier and with more hours, according to the MHH.
