Issue of February 7, 2014
eds: Michele M. Montgomery, Daryl
Haggard, Nick Murphy, & Nicolle Zellner
This week's issues:
8. Job Opportunities
9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
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1. Changing the Debate about
Women in STEM: Celebrating our Equal Abilities!
From: Greet Brosens via
womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
After guest tweeting for The
Women’s Room last week, I had enough inspiration for another blog about
stereotypes. The stereotypical treatment of girls and women is a subject I have
written about a lot in the last year and done a lot of research on.
Unfortunately the more I read the more I despair…. Even amongst female
engineers, who presumably know a thing or two about the effects of
stereotypical thinking, it still seems to be an accepted view that men and
women are different.
To read more, please see http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2014/02/changing-debate-about-women-in-stem.html
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2. Why So Few? Stereotype Threat
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), profiles
the research of Dr. Joshua Aronson, a psychologist at New York University, who
shows that negative stereotypes about girls’ and women’s abilities in math and
science persist and can adversely affect their performance in these fields
through a phenomenon known as stereotype threat. Stereotype threat arises in
situations where a person fears that her or his performance will be evaluated
based on a negative stereotype.
Read more at
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3.
The AstroBetter Parental Leave Wiki
From:
Nicholas Murphy via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
The Parental Leave Wiki hosted by
AstroBetter is over two years old and now contains almost thirty entries from
four different countries. This wiki was created so that prospective graduate
students and job seekers could easily compare parental leave policies at
different institutions, and to show institutions how their policies stack up
against peer institutions. Since graduate admissions and many hiring decisions
will be taking place over the next few months, now is a good time to add your
institution’s parental leave policies or make sure that its entry is up to
date.
To read more from this entry,
please see
To add your institution to the
Wiki page, please go to
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4. Call for US Delegate
Applications for the 5th International Conference on Women in Physics
From: Nick Murphy via
friends_at_aps.org
The American Association of
Physics Teachers, the American Physical Society, and the American Institute of
Physics are looking for volunteers to join the delegation representing the
United States at the 5th International Conference on Women in Physics in
Waterloo, Canada, from August 6-9, 2014. The 5th International Conference on
Women in Physics provides a platform for around 300 physicists from
approximately 70 countries to form international research collaborations and
partnerships, share best practices, and discuss specific actions that
participants can take in their home countries to increase and advance the
participation of women in physics.
More information on the
conference can be found at http://icwip2014.wlu.ca
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5. Bibliometrics: Global gender
disparities in science
From: Nicolle Zellner
[nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Cassidy Sugimoto and her
colleagues analyzed over 5 million research papers with over 27 million
authorships in order to understand the relationship between gender and research
output, the extent of collaboration, and the scientific impact of all articles.
They found that “in the most productive countries, all articles with women in
dominant author positions receive fewer citations than those with men in the
same positions.”
To see the summary, by country,
and to read more about the results of this study, please see
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6. No,
Women Don’t Make Less Money Than Men
From:
Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
In
his recent State of the Union address, President Obama stated that women “make
77 cents for every dollar a man earns.” Is it really true that women still make
less money than men? In this article, Christina Hoff Sommers asserts that
college major, career choice, the number of hours worked per week, and
employment position, among other factors, all need to be taken into
account. When they are, “the wage gap
narrows to about five cents.”
To
read more and to see a list of college majors most often chosen by women and
men, please see
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7.
National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in STEM (NSAWS)
From:
Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Harvard
University will be hosting the National Symposium for the Advancement of Women
in STEM, an event “to discuss and honor the role of women in science”, on
February 21-22, 2014. Speakers are from industry and academia and the event
will include discussions on journal submission and career paths, among other
topics.
For
a detailed schedule and to learn how to register, please visit
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8.
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
Director’s Research Fellow, Center for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
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9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN
newsletter
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newsletter, including replies to topics, send 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.
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