AASWomen Newsletter for August 17, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

August 17, 2018

eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Christina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Cross-post: The book that fights sexism with science            

2. Useful and Interesting Webpages 

3. Lawrence Fellowship: Applications Now Being Accepted

4. FUTURE of Physics 2018: Nominations Now Being Accepted

5. Mary G. Ross: Google Doodle honors first Native American woman engineer who helped put man on the moon 

6. The comet calculator: Nicole-Reine Lepaute 

7. Job Opportunities   

8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Cross-post: The book that fights sexism with science

Angela Saini
Photo: Gareth Phillips for the Observer, from the Guardian

A recent article on the Guardian by Donna Ferguson discusses the impact a recent book, Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science that Shows It by Angela Saini, has had on the myth that there are biological differences our brains by gender that cause men or women to be better at certain things. Female scientists rallied behind this message and started a crowdfunding campaign to send a copy of the book to every mixed gender secondary school in England.

Read more at

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/11/women-equal-to-men-science-fact-book-angela-saini

AASWOMEN Newsletter for August 10, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of August 10, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Cross Post: How This Female Fortune 100 Executive Is Helping Women Advance In STEM Fields

2. A Quiet Sunday Night Discovering a Supermassive Black Hole

3. LSSTC Data Science Fellowship - Accepting Applications

4. Fourth COSPAR Symposium: Small Satellites for Sustainable Science and Development

5. National Academies Convocation Announcement and Updated Materials

6. Rethinking Our Physics Heros

7. University Finds Prominent Astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss Grabbed a Woman's Breast

8. Today is Black Women's Equal Pay Day: Here’s What You Need To Know

9. AI spots 40,000 prominent scientists overlooked by Wikipedia

10. Job Opportunities

11. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

13. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Cross-post: How This Female Fortune 100 Executive Is Helping Women Advance In STEM Fields

In this week's cross-post article, journalist and Forbes contributor Elana Lyn Gross profiles Nicola Palmer, the chief network engineering officer at Verizon. Palmer has been committed to helping girls and women gain STEM skills that can make an impact in any field. In the interview, Palmer speaks about "her 28-year career at Verizon, inclusive leadership and actionable ways we can support women in STEM fields".

Read more at 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2018/08/06/how-this-female-fortune-100-executive-is-helping-women-advance-in-stem-fields/#29244f0e1e21

AASWomen Newsletter for August 3, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of August 3, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:
1. Hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
2. Why it is not a ‘failure’ to leave academia
3. America’s First Woman Astronomer
4. Female Inventors and Their Inventions That Changed the World and Impacted the History In a Revolutionary Way
5. Here are the Girl Scouts’ new badges for skills in science and technology
6. Senate Honors Trailblazing Women in Computer Science
7. Job Opportunities
8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

There are many fantastic ways to raise the profile of women in STEM. One that has been in the news recently is hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The AASWomen editors were inspired last week after seeing an article about a physicist who wrote 270 Wikipedia profiles for female scientists.

Read more here:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scientist-pens-270-wikipedia-pages-in-a-year-so-female-scientists-get-noticed_us_5b574eeee4b0b15aba92c0d5

There are a number of resources online for how to host your own edit-a-thon. One example from 500 Women Scientists can be found here:

https://www.sciencerising.org/2018/07/23/hosting-an-edit-a-thon/

A great example of a successful event at UNC can be seen here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/UNC/Chapel_Hill_NC

Let us know if you decide to host an edit-a-thon and we'll include it in a AASWomen's newsletter!

AASWomen Newsletter for July 27, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of July 27, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Cross-post: We need to start being honest with girls about science

2. TAURUS Scholar Spotlight: Gabriella Sanchez

3. Student Highlight: Betsy Hernandez

4. Closing the gender gap in some science fields may take over 100 years

5. Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship winner

6. Publishing While Female: Are women held to higher standards? Evidence from peer review

7. Crossing the divide: Do men really have it easier?

8. The Play "The Women Who Mapped the Stars"

9. Science Career Ads Are Disproportionately Seen by Men

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