Former NASA astronaut Nicole Stott stars in Olay’s Super Bowl commercial alongside Lilly Singh and Busy Philipps. Credit: OlayIssue of January 31, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi
This week's issues:
1. Two-Body Problem Series: Playing the Long Game
2. Former NASA astronaut to star in STEM Super Bowl commercial
3. The heroines of STEM: Ten women in science you should know
4. Unprecedented study finds NZ universities paying woman academics $400,000 less than men
5. Understanding Our Environment Requires an Indigenous Worldview
6. Stress, anxiety, harassment: huge survey reveals pressures of scientists’ working lives
7. How employers can avoid ‘occupational sorting’ by women
8. It’s All About STEM Women: Arianne Hunter and the Privilege of Dreams
10. US National Academies launches search for evidence-based programmes to support scientist parents
11. 3 Things You Should Know About the Gender Pay Gap
12. How Women Can Successfully Navigate Male-Dominated Fields
14. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
15. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
16. Access to Past Issues of the AASWOMEN newsletter
1. Two-Body Problem Series: Playing the Long Game
From: Anonymous via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
“This entry in the two-body problem series is an account of one person’s experience navigating the academic track with their partner. For context, the people in the relationship are white, cisgender, and heterosexual. If you would like to contribute your own story to this series, please contact us at wia-blog at lists.aas.org.
When did you and your partner meet?
We met in college. We both knew that we wanted to apply to graduate school and pursue academic careers (he's in engineering and I'm in astronomy).
Were you ever long-distance during your relationship? At what points? What were some things you did that made it easier?
We were long distance for five years while we attended different graduate schools.”
Read more at:
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2020/01/two-body-problem-series-playing-long.html#more
Back to top.2. Former NASA astronaut to star in STEM Super Bowl commercial
From: Maria Patterson [maria.t.patterson_at_gmail.com]
Retired engineer and NASA astronaut Nicole Stott will star in an Olay commercial during the Super Bowl featuring "Stott going into space with comedian and talk show host Lilly Singh and actress Busy Philipps."
"Stott, who first joined NASA as an operations engineer in 1988, says a female-led commercial such as this is the perfect representation needed to get more women interested in STEM. 'Young women need to know that these opportunities are available to them,' she says. 'But a lot of it requires them to take the first steps to make it happen.'"
Read more at
Back to top.3. The heroines of STEM: Ten women in science you should know
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
Here are ten women who made significant contributions to their fields that you may not have learned about in your studies. (Although, if you read this newsletter you probably have!)
Read more at
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/27/world/women-in-science-you-should-know-scn/index.html
Back to top.4. Unprecedented study finds NZ universities paying woman academics $400,000 less than men
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
In a study of 6000 academic staff at every New Zealand university, scientific investigators revealed a significant financial gap between men and women at the top of their fields. Over the course of their careers, women were paid $400,000 NZD (~$2640,000 US) less (on average) than their male colleagues, only half of which "could be explained by differences in academic research prowess, age, and area of expertise."
Read more at
Find the original Plos One article at
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/comments?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226392
Back to top.5. Understanding Our Environment Requires an Indigenous Worldview
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
The American Geophysical Union's Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee has highlighted perspectives from underrepresented communities in the geosciences. In this article, Raychelle Daniel describes how the Yup’ik way of knowing transcends environmental observations and recommends that as scientists, "we must place the proper value on it through equitable time and funding." As astronomers and planetary scientists, we should continue these conversations in our own research communities.
Read more at
https://eos.org/opinions/understanding-our-environment-requires-an-indigenous-worldview
Back to top.6. Stress, anxiety, harassment: huge survey reveals pressures of scientists’ working lives
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Alison Abbott
"A survey of more than 4,000 scientists has painted a damning picture of the culture in which they work, suggesting that highly competitive and often hostile environments are damaging the quality of research."
Read more at
Back to top.7. How employers can avoid ‘occupational sorting’ by women
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Tom Starner
“Mercedes Meyer, a Washington-based intellectual property partner with the Drinker Biddle law firm, is on a crusade, urging women in science and technology to take more ownership of their ideas and inventions, including applying for patents to help close a longtime IP gender gap.
For example, Meyer, who holds a Ph.D in virology, recently helped develop a gender-diversity innovation toolkit for employers to help women researchers secure patentable discoveries. The protocol, launched in September, follows several years of beta-testing by major companies, including 3M, Micron Technologies, Eli Lilly and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
For her next act, Meyer is taking aim at another stumbling block to women’s professional success - the concept of “occupational sorting.” ”
Read more at
https://hrexecutive.com/how-employers-can-avoid-occupational-sorting-by-women
Back to top.8. It’s All About STEM Women: Arianne Hunter and the Privilege of Dreams
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Julia Travers
“Hunter is a first-generation college student who was a member of the Division I Women’s Basketball Team at Dartmouth College, the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Oklahoma, and the founder of “We Do Science Too!” — a nonprofit serving girls who have less access to STEM experiences. She is a published and awarded scientist and is currently pursuing postdoctoral training in Forensic Chemistry at the Defense Forensic Science Center.”
Read more at
Back to top.9. Life in the Balance
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Michael Haederle
“Harshini Mukundan, PhD, juggles a dizzying number of responsibilities – while somehow making it all look effortless.
As an administrator in the Chemistry Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, she serves as Deputy Group Leader for Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy and Team Leader in Chemistry for Biomedical Applications. The 2003 graduate from UNM's Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program is also a teacher, as well as a devoted parent and spouse, who, in her spare time, participates in traditional Indian dance.”
Read more at
http://hscnews.unm.edu/news/life-in-the-balance
Back to top.10. US National Academies launches search for evidence-based programmes to support scientist parents
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com] and Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
The US National Academies is compiling information on initiatives in place at various institutions that are effectively addressing the work-family balance in STEM careers. Their goal is to address the large number of STEM workers who leave the field due to the difficulties of having both a successful STEM career and family.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00246-7
Back to top.11. 3 Things You Should Know About the Gender Pay Gap
From: Andrea Dupree [adupree_at_cfa.harvard.edu]
The Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at the Harvard Kennedy School is launching a series of three-minute videos entitled "3 Things You Should Know to Advance Gender Equity". These videos are inspired by a WAPPP seminar series focused on results from evidence-based research to promote gender equity at work. The featured experts were convened at Harvard Kennedy School on critical topics from paid family leave to sexual harassment, including intersectional perspectives on gender. In three short minutes, viewers can learn three practical tools for advancing gender equity in the workplace and explore additional resources.
Back to top.12. How Women Can Successfully Navigate Male-Dominated Fields
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Charlie Fletcher
“Gender equality in the workplace is finally beginning to change for the better, though at a glacial pace. Slightly more than half of U.S. adults (52%) believe that gender equality is essential. Time magazine’s 2017 Person of the Year award was distributed equally amongst “The Silence Breakers,” the women behind and associated with the #MeToo movement. In 2018, more women assumed leadership, board, and Congressional roles throughout the country. While these types of progress are heartening, the reality is that women are still significantly underrepresented, particularly in traditionally male-dominated fields. In fields such as long-haul trucking, a shortage exists because drivers are mostly older, white men and diverse demographics have not been encouraged.”
Read more at
https://thriveglobal.com/stories/how-women-can-successfully-navigate-male-dominated-fields
Back to top.13. Job Opportunities
For those interested in increasing excellence and diversity in their organizations, a list of resources and advice is here:
https://aas.org/comms/cswa/resources/Diversity
- Postdoc in mm/radio lensed high-z galaxies, Yale-NUS College, Singapore https://www.yale-nus.edu.sg/careers/faculty/apply/postdoctoral-fellow
- Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, CA https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02399
- Tenure-Track Faculty Position in High Energy Physics and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/15924
Back to top.14. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.15. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.16. Access to Past Issues
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