Women In Astronomy: AASWomen Newsletter for April 27, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of April 27, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:

1. Cross-post: When Will the Gender Gap in Science Disappear?
From: Cristina Thomas via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

A recent paper published in PLOS Biology (Holman, Stuart-Fox & Hauser) investigated the gender gap in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) workforce by determining the numbers of men and women authors listed on > 10 million academic papers published since 2002. They find that many research fields (including computer science and physics) will likely not reach gender parity this century. They also find that women were less likely to be approached to write invited papers by journal editors.

2. Achieving diversity in science
From: Angela Speck [speckan_at_missouri.edu]

"Science has a diversity problem. Many groups are underrepresented in research including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and socially disadvantaged populations. Attention to the issue is growing, and some institutions and scientific communities are actively seeking to increase diversity. But far more needs to be done.

This collection of articles, a collaboration between Nature Research and Scientific American, focuses on the barriers faced by women and how they might be overcome, but also includes articles about the challenges encountered by other underrepresented groups in science. The collection highlights our long-standing commitment to covering gender-related issues and other aspects of diversity. We hope that this collection will stimulate discussion and build support for greater diversity in research and beyond. "

3. SMD seeks volunteer reviewers
From: Christina Richey [christina.r.richey_at_jpl.nasa.gov]

NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is seeking subject matter experts to serve as mail-in and/or panel reviewers of proposals to ROSES and other SMD solicitations. Just follow the links below to the volunteer review forms and click the boxes to indicate the topics in which you consider yourself to be a subject matter expert. If your skills match our needs for that review, we will contact you to discuss scheduling.

We are currently seeking reviewers for: Heliophysics Programs (Appendix B of ROSES-18) Emerging Worlds (C.2 of ROSES) Exobiology (C.5 of ROSES) Solar System Observations (C.6 of ROSES) Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools (C.7 of ROSES) MatISSE and DALI (high-TRL planetary instrument programs) C.13 and C.22 of ROSES Juno Participating Scientist Program (E.5 of ROSES) Earth Surface and Interior and Space Geodesy Programs Astrophysics Data Analysis Program (D.2 of ROSES) Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx PEA J of SALMON-3 AO)

4. Where I'm Coming From
From: Cristina Thomas [cristina.thomas_at_nau.edu]

"SCIENCE, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO INVESTIGATE the entirety of the physical and natural world, is missing something. So is engineering. According to a report issued last year by the National Science Foundation (NSF), blacks and Hispanics are underrepresented both as recipients of degrees in science and engineering and in the science and engineering workforce. The same NSF report found that while women have reached parity with men among science and engineering degree recipients, they make up disproportionately smaller percentages of employed scientists and engineers than they do of the US population, and that while people with disabilities are as likely as others to enroll in science and engineering studies, they also remain underrepresented in the workforce. That imbalance is a problem for those underrepresented groups, and many observers consider it a problem for science and engineering, two life-changing fields that lack the benefit of the wealth of perspectives shared by the country’s increasingly diverse population."

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