Issue of February 02, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson
This week's issues:
1. APS Materials on Attracting and Retaining Women and Minorities
2. Ewine van Dishoeck Receives James Craig Watson Medal
3. When More Women Join the Workforce, Wages Rise - Including for Men
4. Women Once Ruled the Computer World. When Did Silicon Valley Become Brotopia?
5. Want to Be an Ally to Women at Work? Here Are Five Things Men in Tech Have Been Doing
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
1. APS Materials on Attracting and Retaining Women and Minorities
From: Patricia Knezek via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
It's that time of year - peak hiring season in astronomy. As has been reported by numerous sources, there is an ongoing need to improve our ability to attract and retain women and minorities in our field. Now is a good time for those involved in hiring and/or retention to review their practices and ensure that they are maximally effective. One excellent resource is a website maintained by the American Physical Society (APS), where they cover hiring and retention from undergraduates to faculty, and also have a link to tips provided by the APS Committee on Minorities.
Please see
https://www.aps.org/programs/women/reports/cswppractices/index.cfm#.WmYORrRUO6k.mailto
Back to top.2. Ewine van Dishoeck Receives James Craig Watson Medal
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Astronomer Ewine F. van Dishoeck of Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics has received the James Craig Watson Medal. Presented by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) every two years, van Dishoeck received the medal "for improving our understanding of how molecules, stars, and planets form."
Read the citation in the NAS press release at
http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2018-nas-awards-recipients.html
Read the AAS press release at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2018/01/ewine-van-dishoeck-receives-james-craig-watson-medal
Back to top.3. When More Women Join the Workforce, Wages Rise - Including for Men
From: Maria Patterson [mtpatter_at_uw.edu]
Research presented in a Harvard Business Review article finds that "for every 10% increase in women working, we see a 5% increase in wages." The article hypothesizes that "as more women joined the workforce, they helped make cities more productive and increased wages."
Read more at
https://hbr.org/2018/01/when-more-women-join-the-workforce-wages-rise-including-for-men
Back to top.4. Women Once Ruled the Computer World. When Did Silicon Valley Become Brotopia?
From: Maria Patterson [mtpatter_at_uw.edu]
"Lena Söderberg started out as just another Playboy centerfold. The 21-year-old Swedish model left her native Stockholm for Chicago because, as she would later say, she’d been swept up in “America fever.” In November 1972, Playboy returned her enthusiasm by featuring her under the name Lenna Sjööblom, in its signature spread. If Söderberg had followed the path of her predecessors, her image would have been briefly famous before gathering dust under the beds of teenage boys. But that particular photo of Lena would not fade into obscurity. Instead, her face would become as famous and recognizable as Mona Lisa’s—at least to everyone studying computer science."
Read more at
Back to top.5. Want to Be an Ally to Women at Work? Here Are Five Things Men in Tech Have Been Doing
From: Maria Patterson [mtpatter_at_uw.edu]
"In the wake of the #MeToo movement, more women are coming forward with their stories of workplace harassment and inequality, and more men are hearing them. In the tech industry, where a significant disparity exists between men and women and a conversation about these problems has been happening for years already, male allies have begun to make a small dent in the imbalance. Below are the best practices for men who want to become allies to women in the tech industry and beyond."
Read more at
Back to top.6. 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
-Flight Ops Console Engineer, STScI, Baltimore, MD https://rn11.ultipro.com/SPA1004/JobBoard/JobDetails.aspx?__ID=*C516524EC68C4894
-Research Astrophysicist, AST, Fields and Particles GS-13/14, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/487324000
-Research Astrophysicist, AST, Fields and Particles GS-15, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/487323600
-Tenure-Track Planetary Sciences Faculty Position, Caltech, Pasadena, CA https://applications.caltech.edu/job/ps
Back to top.7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.9. Access to Past Issues
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