Well-being in French Astrophysics
  It has become clear that early career astrophysics researchers (doctoral
researchers, post-docs, etc) have a very diverse appreciation of their career,
with some declaring it the best job that you can have and others suffering from
overwork, harrassment and stress from the precarity of their job, and
associated difficulties. In order to establish how astrophysics researchers,
primarily in France, experience their career, we sent out a survey to
understand the impact that their job has on their well-being. 276 people
responded to the survey. Whilst around half of the respondents expressed
pleasure derived from their career, it is clear that many (early career)
researchers are suffering due to overwork, with more than a quarter saying that
they work in excess of 50 hours per week and 2\% in excess of 90 h per week.
Almost 30\% professed to having suffered harrassment or discrimination in the
course of their work. Further, whilst only 20\% had suffered mental health
issues before starting their career in astrophysics, $\sim$45\% said that they
suffered with mental health problems since starting in astrophysics. Here we
provide results from the survey as well as possible avenues to explore and a
list of recommendations to improve (early) careers in astrophysics.
