AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of November 17, 2017
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Christina Thomas, and Maria Patterson
This week's issues:
1. Meet the CSWA: Maria Patterson
2. Analysis: How Implicit Biases Hamper Women’s Participation in Science
3. SA Women scientists honoured on global stage at L’Oréal-UNESCO programme
4. The first hijabi Barbie is here – but who are the other ‘Sheroes’?
5. Job Opportunities
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
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1. Meet the CSWA: Maria Patterson
From: Patricia Knezek via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
In our newest series on the Women in Astronomy blog, we'd like to introduce our readers to the Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy. After earning a PhD in astronomy, Maria Patterson spent several years at the University of Chicago’s Center for Data Intensive Science, where she worked on cloud-based pipelines for automated analysis of NASA satellite imagery and architectures for interdisciplinary scientific clouds or “data commons”. ... She is currently a Research Scientist at the University of Washington, working on scientific data pipelines for managing streams of real-time data from large-scale astronomy projects, including the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Maria is passionate about open science, diversity in computing, and making everyone’s life easier through tech and was recently named a modern hidden figure in STEM in PepsiCo and 21st Century Fox’s “Search for Hidden Figures."
Read more at
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2. Analysis: How Implicit Biases Hamper Women’s Participation in Science
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
"While gendered questions of STEM have been discussed extensively in the West, such issues have not received adequate attention in India." To shed light on this, Aneree Parekh and Arathy Puthillam, research assistants at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala, Mumbai, recently undertook a study to understand implicit beliefs of Indians regarding gender and science. They "found that, overall, Indian participants had a strong bias for associating men with science... The results also found that these implicit biases correlated with explicitly stated beliefs, indicating that Indians who hold these internal biases also endorse the ‘male + science’ beliefs out loud and unreservedly."
Read more and see actual data at
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3. SA Women scientists honoured on global stage at L’Oréal-UNESCO programme
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzeller_at_albion.edu]
Kenda Knowles (University of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa) is among 14 African scientists who were recently honored at the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa ceremony in Johannesburg. The title of her project is “Statistical study of diffuse radio emission in ACT galaxy clusters with MeerKAT”.
Read more at
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4. The first hijabi Barbie is here – but who are the other ‘Sheroes’?
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
“Mattel has added a 10th doll to its line inspired by real-life women who have broken boundaries, inspired girls and played with Barbies as children.”
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5. 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/#howtoincrease
- Assistant Curator of Computational Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History
- MAST Archive Scientists (2), The Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
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