Issue of March 29, 2013
eds. Caroline Simpson, Michele Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, and Nick Murphy
This week's issues:
3. Women Faculty: Hiring & Retention
4. Why Is a Woman Who Loves Science So Surprising?
7. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
9. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
1. Mind the Gender Gap
From: Jessica Kirkpatrick via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
A recent Nature article discusses problems with the hiring and retention of women in science and engineering:
http://www.nature.com/news/inequality-quantified-mind-the-gender-gap-1.12550
The National Science Foundation finds that while female scientists have made steady gains in recent decades they face persistent career challenges. US universities and colleges employ far more male scientists than female ones and men earn significantly more in science occupations.
While overt sexism seems to be rare, studies find that 52% of women report encountering gender bias during their careers, compared with just 2% of men. Studies of unconscious bias in hiring find that identical resumes (one with a female name, and one with a male name) get significantly different salary offers. Overall, women in physics and astronomy in the US make an average of 40% less than their male counterparts.
To read more, please see
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2013/03/mind-gender-gap.html
Back to top.2. Lipsticks and Labcoats
From: Hannah Jang-Condell via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
March is Women's History Month, and this year's theme is Women in STEM. As part of my university's festivities, we had a panel discussion entitled, "Lipsticks and Lab Coats: Women’s Challenges and Journeys in STEM." Despite not being a wearer of either lipstick or a labcoat, I was invited to participate on the panel, and got a free lunch out of the deal.
The discussion touched on many of the issues that I've come to be very familiar with through my involvement with CSWA: unconscious and conscious bias, gender policing, lack of support for childcare, leaky pipelines, trying to lead while being a woman, two-body problems, and work-family balance, just to name a few. I have to remind myself at events like these that although I feel like I'm re-treading the same ground over and over again in discussing these issues, that's not true for everyone.
To read more, please see
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2013/03/lipsticks-and-labcoats.html
Back to top.3. Women Faculty: Hiring & Retention
From: Annika Peter via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
About a decade ago, some top-tier universities starting realizing that they were not hiring or retaining very many women faculty in their science and engineering departments. MIT is particularly famous (or infamous) for having had so few women on its faculty as recently as the late 1990’s. This realization is an indication that the AIP's finding of a lower proportion of women at PhD granting institutions than colleges and universities as a whole is in part because they simply were not hiring and retaining women at rate one would have expected based on PhD completion rates. Since then, these universities have undergone self-studies to identify concrete steps they can take to improve the retention of women faculty, and have implemented a number of changes.
To read more and for links to a few of these universities' reports and findings, please see
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2013/03/women-faculty-hiring-retention.html
Back to top.4. Why Is a Woman Who Loves Science So Surprising?
From: Rick Fienberg [rick.fienberg_at_aas.org]
By Christine Dell'Amore from National Geographic News
All she did was join Twitter. But when Elise Andrew, the brain behind the popular Facebook page I F**king Love Science, posted her Twitter profile picture there last week, some of the page's 4.3 million fans were shocked to learn her gender, even though Andrew's identity as a woman was no secret.
To read more, please see
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130325-elise-andrew-i-fking-love-science-women
Back to top.5. Women in Exploration
From: Daryl Haggard [darylhaggard_at_gmail.com]
Celebrate International Women's Day, March 8, 2013, with National Geographic's outstanding female explorers of the past and present. Whether directly making a difference in girls' lives or being role models for future adventurers and researchers, these explorers paved the path least traveled for women all over the world.
To read more, please see
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/125/women-in-exploration
Back to top.6. Job Opportunities
For those interested in increasing excellence and diversity in their organizations, a list of resources and advice is here:
http://www.aas.org/cswa/diversity.html#howtoincrease
* A variety of jobs are available from AURA (includes NOAO, NSO, LSST, and WIYN) http://www.aura-astronomy.org/hr/joblist.asp
Back to top.7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
To submit an item to the AASWOMEN newsletter, including replies to topics, send an email to aaswomen_at_aas.org
All material will be posted unless you tell us otherwise, including your email address.
When submitting a job posting for inclusion in the newsletter, please include a one-line description and a link to the full job posting.
Please remember to replace "_at_" in the e-mail address above.
Back to top.8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
Join AAS Women List by email:
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Back to top.9. Access to Past Issues
http://www.aas.org/cswa/AASWOMEN.html
Each annual summary includes an index of topics covered.
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