Issue of August 21, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. A female Ph.D. student’s cautionary tale and the need for peer mentorship
2. Meet The Forgotten Female Scientist Who Debunked Theories Of Male Superiority
3. Wives, Physics, and Nepotism in Academia
4. How to Showcase Your CV in a 2-Page Resume
5. Reckoning with Our Mistakes
6. Women less likely to receive pay for college internships
7. The X-Files and the Scully Effect - fake aliens, real-world phenomenon for women in STEM
8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
1. A female Ph.D. student’s cautionary tale and the need for peer mentorship
From: JoEllen McBride via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
By Bárbara Cruvinel Santiago
"In 2018, I moved to NYC to attend my Physics Ph.D. program at Columbia. Life was far from perfect due to personal and family issues, political turmoil in my home country, being away from my loved ones, and a much less than ideal new housing situation. After working for a year, however, I was looking forward to going back to school. Given my track record, getting my B.S. in Physics at Yale under a full-ride need-based scholarship, and working for a year at MIT’s Nobel-prize-winning LIGO lab, I thought I was up for the challenge, but grad school turned out to be different from anything I had ever encountered."
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-female-phd-students-cautionary-tale.html
Back to top.2. Meet The Forgotten Female Scientist Who Debunked Theories Of Male Superiority
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
"Leta Stetter Hollingworth was a trailblazing psychologist and champion of women’s rights. But a century after the 19th Amendment, equality has a long way to go.
In May 1886, Margaret Danley Stetter gave birth to a child in a shelter dug into a hill in Western Nebraska. She came from a long line of homesteaders, who tried to tame the prairie into farmland, some with more success than others. Her husband, John, was away earning his living as a cowboy and it took several telegrams to finally persuade him to come home to meet his first-born daughter, Leta. His reaction was less than paternal. Upon seeing her, he reportedly said, 'I'd give a thousand dollars if it was a boy.'"
Read more at
Back to top.3. Wives, Physics, and Nepotism in Academia
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
"In 1980, physicist Freda Friedman Salzman was undergoing cancer treatment in Germany. Body wracked with bouts of fever, she tried to muster the strength to hike and walk. She read two letters from home in Boston: one from her daughter, who was conquering her linear algebra class, and one from her husband, George. He talked extensively about the dinner adventures of the night before, corralling three teenage girls. He missed her, he wrote, and wished her to be back home, healthy, so that they could enjoy these adventures together.
The marriage between George and Freda was a loving partnership between two highly accomplished physicists. Together, Freda and George obtained their Ph.D.s from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completed postgraduate studies, and became independent researchers. During this time, Freda produced critical work on single-particle exchange models, nucleon collisions, and the electromagnetic interactions of vector bosons."
Read more at
https://www.ladyscience.com/essays/wives-physics-nepotism-academia-freda-salzman-2020
Back to top.4. How to Showcase Your CV in a 2-Page Resume
From: Tanya Harrison [tanya_at_tanyaofmars.com]
The next session in the Women in Space speaker series features Jesika Arseneau, who will discuss how to turn your full academic CV into a 2-page resume suitable for searching for jobs in industry. The presentation will be on August 27, 2020 from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT.
Learn more and register at
Back to top.5. Reckoning with Our Mistakes
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Jen Schwartz and Dan Schlenoff
"Some of the cringiest articles in Scientific American’s history reveal bigger questions about scientific authority."
Read more at
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reckoning-with-our-mistakes
Back to top.6. Women less likely to receive pay for college internships
From: Maria Patterson [maria.t.patterson_at_gmail.com]
"The odds of women receiving pay for a college internship are 34% lower than for men, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
...To move toward equity in pay for college internships for female students, Smith recommends implicit bias training for those within university settings who advise students on career decision making, whether faculty or career advisors; having universities analyze and be transparent in sharing pay data disaggregated by gender; working with employers to ensure awareness; and providing educational sessions for students on internship seeking and salary negotiation."
Read more at
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200818094024.htm
Back to top.7. The X-Files and the Scully Effect - fake aliens, real-world phenomenon for women in STEM
From: Maria Patterson [maria.t.patterson_at_gmail.com]
"The fictitious FBI agent inspired a generation of young women to pursue careers in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), a phenomenon that even has its own name: the Scully Effect.
It's been noted in STEM circles for years.
In 2018, 21st Century Fox tasked the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a non-profit research organisation, with finding out whether there was any hard truth to the phenomenon."
Read more at
Back to top.8. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.10. Access to Past Issues
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