Issue of December 6, 2013
eds: Michele M. Montgomery, Daryl
Haggard, Nick Murphy, & Nicolle Zellner
This week's issues:
1. Perhaps You Should Consider
Wearing Racier Clothing
2. Why So Few? Scientific
Workforce
3. Evaluating a Diversity
Research Program
4. ADVICE: Responding to
workplace (and other) bullies
5. Science: A Creative Outlet
6. Congratulations to the new
AAAS Fellows!
7. Women’s Adventures in Science
8. Science Camps for Young People
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
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1. Perhaps You Should Consider Wearing Racier Clothing
1. Perhaps You Should Consider Wearing Racier Clothing
From: Hannah Jang-Condell via
womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
[A] video, by Emily Graslie of The Brain
Scoop, has been making the internet rounds this week. Emily
does a good job of summarizing some of the reasons why it's hard to find women
role models in science. A lot of it boils down to the fact that women
frequently get judged based solely on appearances, and that the feedback we got
often has more to do with how "hot" or "sexy" we are rather
than the content of our work.
To see the video and to read more
from Hannah, please see
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2. Why So Few? Scientific Workforce
From: Joan Schmelz via
womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
The 2010 report entitled, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics, by the American Association of University
Women (AAUW), finds that women’s representation in the STEM workforce is
uneven. In general, women’s overall representation has increased in [STEM]
occupations since the 1960s; however, in 2000, although women were well
represented among biological scientists, for instance, they made up a small
minority of engineers.
To read more from this report and
to see graphs showing the percentage of women in the different STEM disciplines,
please see
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3. Evaluating a Diversity
Research Program
From: Sarah Schmidt via
womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
The Pre-Major in Astronomy
Program (Pre-MAP) at the University of Washington (UW) was designed to increase
the number of under-represented students who chose to major in STEM fields. The
main component of Pre-MAP is a seminar that gives freshman and first-year
transfer students the chance to learn astronomy research methods and apply them
to real projects. Students work closely with research mentors (graduate
students, post-docs, or professors) and with each other.
To read more about this program,
please see
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4. ADVICE: Responding to
workplace (and other) bullies
From: Ed Bertschinger via
womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
As previous blog entries have
discussed, bullying behavior is a vexing problem in academic communities as it
is in other environments. Often bullying
is an abuse of power, and the most vulnerable are those with the least
power. Conversely, when the bully is a
powerful faculty member, even supervisors are frustrated in their efforts to
change or block the behavior. Ignoring a
problem may have the effect of rewarding the bully, so intervention is highly
desirable. Changing behavior is very
difficult, and academics are generally untrained in these matters.
To learn about a few strategies,
please see
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5.
Science: A Creative Outlet
From:
Eilat Glikman via
womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
When
I was a postdoc at Yale, I participated in a program intended to expose middle
school girls to science via a hands-on approach that made science accessible
and fun. The program, Girls’ Science
Investigations (GSI), brought middle-school girls to Yale four Saturdays a year
to explore topics in science. Some girls
came because they were into science and wanted to get more of it, others came
with school groups, others still were brought there by their parents as an
enrichment activity. So, while most of
the girls were already science fans, there were many girls that were reluctant
about the whole thing. When I
volunteered, I especially enjoyed speaking with the reluctant girls. I wanted to find out why they weren’t
interested in the activity. What was it
about science that turned them off?
One
answer that I frequently heard was “I’m more of an arts person” or “I’m not a
science person, I like writing and creative stuff”.
To read more about how Dr.
Glikman finds art in science, please see
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6. Congratulations to the new AAAS Fellows!
From: Karen Bjorkman
[Karen.Bjorkman_at_utoledo.edu] and Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Congratulations to the seven new
AAAS fellows who do research in Astronomy, including Nancy Morrison and Meg
Urry. Dr. Morrison is a member of the
Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (CSWA), and Dr. Urry is a past
chair of CSWA as well as President-Elect of the AAS. This year, 388 people were
recognized for their accomplishments.
To read the AAAS press release,
please see
To read the AAS press release,
please see
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7. Women’s Adventures in Science
From: Matthew Greenhouse
[matthew.a.greenhouse_at_nasa.gov]
The National Academy of Sciences
has developed a website to showcase ‘the accomplishments of contemporary women
in science and to highlight for young people the varied and intriguing careers
of some of today's most prominent scientists’. To that end, they have developed
a list of books that may be interesting reads.
To find a list of these books,
please see
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8. Science Camps for Young People
From:
Michele Montgomery [Montgomery_at_physics.ucf.edu]
Objective
Sciences International, an NGO, promotes the involvement of girls and young
women in the sciences by hosting science camps for young people all over the
world. At these camps, they conduct their own research project and can
contribute new information to the field.
To
learn more about these camps, please see
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9.
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
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Postdoctoral Position, Cosmic
Magnetic Fields, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
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Postdoctoral Position, Institute of
Radio Astronomy (CIRA), Curtin University
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Tenure-track Astronomy position,
Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, CA
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