AASWomen Newsletter for March 31, 2017

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 31, 2017
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:

1. Career Profile: Research Administrator to Deputy Principal Investigator

2. National Academies Celebration of the Stories of Women in STEMM

3. What it means to {codelikeagirl}

4. 3 Muslim Women in STEM You Should Know About

5. NASA's Peggy Whitson sets spacewalk record

6. The Way We Teach Math Is Holding Women Back

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

Career Profile: Research Administrator to Deputy Principal Investigator

The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy and the AAS Employment Committee have compiled dozens of interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers, planetary scientists, etc. The interviews share advice and lessons learned from individuals on those paths.

Below is our interview with Heather Enos, a Masters in Business Administration who is the Deputy Principal Investigator of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Regolith Explorer) mission.

For access to all our Career Profile Project interviews, please visit http://aas.org/jobs/career-profiles. New Career Profiles are posted approximately every month.

AASWomen Newsletter for March 24, 2017

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 24, 2017
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:

1. Large gender gap persists in physical sciences

2. Research: Junior Female Scientists Aren’t Getting the Credit They Deserve

3. Women's History Month and one woman's trek in science

4. 19 Women Leading Math and Physics

5. These Bold Illustrations Celebrate the Incredible Contributions of Women in Science

6. An annual note to all the (NSF) haters

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

AASWomen Newsletter for March 17, 2017

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 17, 2017
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:
1. Guest Post: Confessions of a Teaching-Focused Astronomer
2. LPSC Women in Planetary Science Annual Susan Niebur Networking Event 2017
3. The 2017 L'Oreal - UNESCO for Women in Science Award
4. The quest to reveal science’s hidden female faces
5. Annual Prize to be named for Caroline Herschel
6. Job Opportunities
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

Guest Post: Confessions of a Teaching-Focused Astronomer

Our guest post today is from Dr. Jillian Bellovary. Jillian Bellovary is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Queensborough Community College in Queens, New York. She is also a research scientist at the American Museum of Natural History and serves on the Committee for the Status of Minorities in Astronomy. She is passionate about equity & inclusion, knitting, and roller derby.

In August 2016 I started a tenure-track position at Queensborough Community College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system and located in Bayside, Queens.  This job is my dream job, and one I’ve been aiming for for quite a while.  But I didn’t always know this was what I wanted, and I’ve definitely felt like I’m not supposed to want a job like this.  Thus I’d like to share my story.

AASWomen Newsletter for March 10, 2017

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of March 10, 2017

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

This week's issues:

1. A daily routine    

2. The Gender Gap in Publications

3. Why Did the House Science Committee Overlook NASA's Former Chief Scientist? 

4. Here’s What a Day Without Women Will Actually Look Like

5. Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Astrophysicist says women in science need culture change 

6. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

7. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

8. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

A daily routine

I approach each morning with a certain tension. I pick up my phone (a terrible way to start the day, you’d think I’d have figured that out by now, I definitely do not recommend it.). I skim twitter, the New York Times, and whatever else has accumulated overnight. It isn’t that there wasn't oppression or ordeals before - but I (perhaps delusionally) thought I knew the shape of them. Now there is a certain wild card feel that I can’t quite shake.

But maybe it is just because I hate going to the obvious place - people who are marginalized will be openly targeted for the foreseeable future. And it is on us (us reading this, us who are privileged in one way or another, us who can leverage something in a given moment) to hold the line. 

Today, a few shoes dropped (how can there be so many shoes? There are so many shoes.).

AASWomen Newsletter for March 03, 2017

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 03, 2017
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:

1. Meet the CSWA: Chair Pat Knezek

2. Too Ethical to Get Ahead?

3. Black History Month: The Complicated Power of More Women Scientists’ Faces

4. The 17th-Century Lady Astronomer Who Took Measure of the Stars

5. Trump Signs into Law Two Esty-Authored Bills to Promote Women in Science

6. LEGO will honor women of NASA in newest set

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