Issue of November 03, 2017
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson
This week's issues:
1. Cross-Post: American Physical Society Fellers
2. Confronting Sexual Harassment in Science
3. To see more women in science, deal with test-taking anxiety in girls
4. The Problem With "The Pipeline"
5. University systems allow sexual harassers to thrive
6. Salaries for female physics faculty trail those for male colleagues
7. Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship
9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
11. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
1. Cross-Post: American Physical Society Fellers
From: Patricia Knezek via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
On October 17, Kerstin Nordstrom posted a blog about the relative representation of women among American Physical Society Fellows on the scienceprose.worldpress.com blog. Unsurprisingly, women are underrepresented. Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2017/10/cross-post-american-physical-society.html
Back to top.2. Confronting Sexual Harassment in Science
From: Maria Patterson [mtpatter_at_uw.edu] and Heather Flewelling [heather_at_ifa.hawaii.edu]
"It's not just movie moguls and politicians; the problem is rampant in STEM fields as well. But recent moves by major organizations could mark a sea change in addressing this entrenched, degrading behavior."
Read more at
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confronting-sexual-harassment-in-science
Back to top.3. To see more women in science, deal with test-taking anxiety in girls
From: Maria Patterson [mtpatter_at_uw.edu]
"In a recent standardized science test given to 15-year-olds in 72 countries, there was almost no gap in the scores between boys and girls. The latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test administered by the OECD every three years to more than half a million students, found that boys scored 4 points, or less than 1%, better than girls in science. In the assessment, in 2015, boys outperformed girls in 24 places, with the biggest gaps in Austria, Costa Rica, and Italy. Girls outperformed boys in 22, with Finland, Qatar and Jordan among those with the biggest gaps favoring girls.
But the OECD find one notable difference between the sexes: in every single country tested, girls had much higher levels of schoolwork- and test-related anxiety than boys."
Read more at
https://qz.com/1109075/the-lack-of-women-in-science-is-down-to-test-taking-anxiety-in-girls
Back to top.4. The Problem With "The Pipeline"
From: Heather Flewelling [heather_at_ifa.hawaii.edu]
"If you’ve spent any time listening to conversations about STEM education, you’ve surely heard about 'the pipeline'.
Different groups talk about variations of 'the pipeline'. Some describe a pipeline from science education to a STEM career, or as a way to describe a treacherous path through such an education that loses many female, black, Latino, or American Indian people along their educational careers. But the variations are all based on an idea that impacts entire sectors of our 21st-century economy: the preschool-to-Ph.D. pipeline."
Read more at
Back to top.5. University systems allow sexual harassers to thrive
From: Heather Flewelling [heather_at_ifa.hawaii.edu]
"Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes, Geoff Marcy. From entertainment to academia, accusations of these people's abuses of power have helped to create a sea change in the numbers of people willing to discuss sexual harassment in the workplace. Much of the conversation has concerned condemnation of harassers and praise for those who come forward to talk about what they have seen and experienced. This puts an interpersonal frame on a systemic problem. Attention must also be paid to systems that allow harassers to thrive."
Read more at
Back to top.6. Salaries for female physics faculty trail those for male colleagues
From: Heather Flewelling [heather_at_ifa.hawaii.edu] and Alexander L. Rudolph [alrudolph_at_cpp.edu]
"Nearly 25 years ago, Nancy Hopkins, then a tenured biology professor at MIT, went to the university provost to ask for 200 square feet of lab space.To make her case, she brought floor plans that showed she had less space than junior males in her department and arguments for why she needed the space for her research. At the time, the space was unused, but a senior male professor had stuffed it full of furniture and boxes to reserve it for himself."
Read more at
http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.3760
Read a synopsis of the article at
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Gender-Pay-Gap-in-Physics/241661
Back to top.7. Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship
From: Steven Gordon [sgordon_at_osc.edu]
Applications are now being accepted for Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships, which will provide selected PhD students with a year of support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, a 50,000 node-hour allocation on Blue Waters, and funds to support travel to the annual Blue Waters symposium.
Applicants should be in the second or later year of their graduate program with a well-developed, related research proposal. Applicants must be a U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. by the time of the application deadline. Preference will be given to candidates engaged in a multidisciplinary research project that combines disciplines such as computer science, applied mathematics, and computational science applications.
Applications for Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships are due on February 2nd, 2018. Find more information about the fellow application process here: https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/fellowships
Questions? Contact bwgf@ncsa.illinois.edu.
Back to top.8. Job Opportunities
For those interested in increasing excellence and diversity in their
organizations, a list of resources and advice is here:
https://cswa.aas.org/diversity.html#howtoincrease
-Post-doctoral Researcher in Interstellar Medium Studies of External Galaxies, STScI, Baltimore, MD https://stsci.slideroom.com/#/login/program/39853
-Post-doctoral Researchers in Milky Way Halo Studies, STScI, Baltimore, MD https://stsci.slideroom.com/#/login/program/39545
-Post-doctoral Researcher in Extragalactic Astronomy, STScI, Baltimore, MD https://stsci.slideroom.com/#/login/program/39186
-Post-doctoral Research Position in Supernova Cosmology Studies, STScI, Baltimore, MD https://stsci.slideroom.com/#/login/program/39924
-Interstellar Medium Postdoctoral Researcher, STScI, Baltimore, MD https://stsci.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/40030/Ee86QapdZ4
-Education and Outreach Scientist, STScI, Baltimore, MD https://rn11.ultipro.com/SPA1004/JobBoard/JobDetails.aspx?__ID=*63346B76391173FA
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