Women In Astronomy

Friday, November 8, 2019

AASWomen Newsletter for November 08, 2019

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of November 08, 2019
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

This week's issues:

1. Physics and Astronomy STEM Equality Achievement (SEA) Change Department Awards

2. National Academies Issue Recommendations on Mentoring to Improve Diversity & Inclusion

3. Dual-Anonymous Peer Review for Astrophysics General Observer / General Investigator Programs

4. A sociological study of gender and astronomy in Spain

5. In decision certain to draw fire, journal will publish heavily criticized paper on gender differences in physics

6. Being a Working Parent is Complicated — Supporting Working Families Shouldn’t Be

7. Careers and controversy before the First World War

8. The women who cracked science’s glass ceiling

9. Job Opportunities

10. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Physics and Astronomy STEM Equality Achievement (SEA) Change Department Awards

Posted by Regina Jorgenson

By Arlene Modeste Knowles and Beth A. Cunningham

Over the last two years, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has developed the STEM Equity Achievement (SEA) Change Project which supports systemic, structural institutional transformation around diversity and inclusion in colleges and universities. It does so by encouraging, assisting and recognizing academic institutions that commit to and engage in the difficult work of removing structural barriers to success for women, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, people with disabilities, and others who are marginalized in STEM fields. In the SEA Change process, inclusion, and its valuable impacts, are measured by the experiences of students and faculty, as well as by data. The SEA Change Principles can be found here: https://seachange.aaas.org/principles/. Three universities were the first recipients of SEA Change bronze awards in February 2019: Boston University, University of California, Davis, and University of Massachusetts Lowell.

AASWomen Newsletter for November 1, 2019

Posted by Heather Flewelling

AAS Committee on the Status of Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of November 01, 2019
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

This week's issues:

1. Cross-post: Every woman has an 'I Don't' list. And it's about time we shared them.

2. 6 Steps Everyone Can Take To Become An Ally In White, Male-Dominated Workplaces

3. Becoming a parent in graduate school shaped my approach to work–life balance

4. Preventing Harassment in Science: Building a Community of Practice Towards Meaningful Change

5. Nancy Grace Roman and the Dawn of Space Astronomy

6. Women are regularly read and cited less in academia, but not for lack of research, UCI study shows

7. An ongoing conversation on diversity in science

8. November National Geographic Magazine

9. Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture

10. Staying Power: Women in Science on What It Takes to Succeed

11. The Science Of Storytelling: Inspiring The Next Generation Of Female STEM Leaders

12. AstroAmbassadors: Need help finding more applicants for Jan 2020 Ambassadors workshop

13. Job Opportunities

14. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

15. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

16. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Cross-post: Every woman has an 'I Don't' list. And it's about time we shared them.

Posted by JoEllen McBride

We all do so much. It's so easy to forget all you do and just focus on what you don't. But instead of feeling guilty for all the things you don't do, what if we shared them! Holly Wainwright, Head of Content on the Mamamia blog, writes in this blog post "But now I can see that what women really need to hear is not how other women “do it all”, so that we can mimic their to-do lists and add more and more to our cracking plates. No. We need to hear what other women aren’t doing."

Read more at:

https://www.mamamia.com.au/i-dont-list/

My list overlapped with hers in many spots, but here are a few additional things 'I Don't' do:

I don't make my kids brush their teeth in the morning. Heck, I don't even brush my teeth in the morning.
I don't make my bed.
I don't make my kids make their beds.
I don't cook most nights, because my partner gets home before me.
I don't do ANY work after 8:30 pm. That's TV time.
I don't have any hobbies.
I don't attend most CSWA meetings because they happen during my work hours.
I don't shower every day.

So, what don't you do? Feel free to share in the comments!

Friday, October 25, 2019

AASWomen Newsletter for October 25, 2019

Posted by Maria Patterson

AAS Committee on the Status of Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of October 25, 2019
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

Jessica Meir and Christina Koch, NASA, from item 3

This week's issues:

1. Career Profiles: Astronomer to Communications and Stewardship Staff Writer

2. Zibi Turtle: Titan of Exploration

3. Why spacesuit design choices - not women's physiques - delayed the first all-female spacewalk

4. NASA reveals new spacesuits designed to fit men and women

5. Announcement: Upcoming Proposal Writing Workshops for R&A Proposals

6. Bill Recognizing 'Hidden Figures' for Contributions to U.S. during the Space Race Headed to President Trump's Desk to become Law

7. All co-first authors are equal, but some are more equal than others

8. Being reminded of bias makes students treat female professors fairer

9. Townhall: STEM Student Success- Investing in Minority Serving Institutions for Our Future Workforce

10. Three Ways Your STEM Organization Can Have More Women Leaders - AWIS Research

11. Vote for the Woman Because She's a Woman

12. The Ghost of the Glass Ceiling That Still Haunts Equal Pay

13. What Girls Really Need to Succeed in STEM

14. By age 6, kids tend to see white men as more 'brilliant' than white women

15. Job Opportunities

16. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

17. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

18. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Career Profiles: Astronomer to Communications and Stewardship Staff Writer

Posted by Regina Jorgenson

The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy is compiling interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers. The interviews share advice and lessons learned from individuals on those paths.

Below is our interview with Dr. JoEllen McBride, an astronomer who left astronomy to become a science writer. While a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she recognized her interest in outreach and education and developed her experience in these areas. After receiving her PhD, Dr. McBride was awarded an AAAS Mass Media Fellowship to be a science journalist at Voice of America. By day she is a Communications and Stewardship Staff Writer for Penn Medicine Development and Alumni Relations. The rest of her time is split between being with her family of two daughters, Carina and Alessa; two kitties, Thelma and Louise; and her partner, Ed, who is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Math at Thomas Jefferson University East Falls. She also still gives public talks about astronomy and teaches 4th-grade girls about astronomy ten Saturdays out of the year. You can follow her on Twitter at @astrophyspunkin or on Instagram at @astropunkin.

To access our previous Career Profiles, please go to http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/search/label/career%20profiles

AASWomen Newsletter for October 18, 2019

Posted by Alessandra Aloisi

AAS Committee on the Status of Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of October 18, 2019
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

This week's issues:

1. US Delegation to the 7th International Conference on Women in Physics

2. Are We Pressuring Students to Choose a Hostile STEM?

3. The Style-Quantifying Astrophysicists of Silicon Valley

4. Viewpoint: Feynman, Harassment, and the Culture of Science

5. Doris Lessing at 100: roving time and space

6. Trailblazer in astronomy and science is Delaware's contribution to innovation coin series

7. How I overcame impostor syndrome after leaving academia

8. Shared parental leave: making it work for the whole family

9. Why the 2019 Nobel Prizes in STEM struggled with diversity

10. Once, most famous scientists were men. But that’s changing.

11. Transitioning from postdoc researcher to gig-economy scientist

12. NASA's First All-Female Spacewalk Set For Friday