Issue of October 23, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Jeremy Bailey, and Alessandra Aloisi
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Crosspost: Survey: Impact of Parenthood on Career Progression in STEMM
2. Rutgers Astronomer Receives Packard Fellowship for Innovative Young Scientists
3. Three trouble spots facing women in science—and how we can tackle them
5. Women in Space Speaker Series - Oct 29th
6. Too intelligent for the life sciences in Brazil: how two female researchers fought back
7. How to get more women and people of colour into graduate school — and keep them there
9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
11. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
1. Crosspost: Survey: Impact of Parenthood on Career Progression in STEMM
From: Ryan Watkins via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
Motherhood is a determinant factor driving women away from their career track, yet few interventions or policies address the career obstacles faced by mothers, such as motherhood discrimination, a chronic lack of affordable childcare, and unequal sharing of childcare and housework. Our team at Mothers in Science is leading an international research project aimed at understanding how parenthood affects the career advancement of people working or studying in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) fields.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2020/10/crosspost-survey-impact-of-parenthood.html
Back to top.2. Rutgers Astronomer Receives Packard Fellowship for Innovative Young Scientists
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Robin Lally
Blakesley Burkhart’s childhood days spent volunteering at a science museum and watching the Discovery Channel and sci-fi shows sparked her love of science and fascination with the stars.
“These were the beginning years of the Hubble Space Telescope and the golden age of Mars Pathfinder,” she said. “I loved learning and I wanted to be a part of the process of scientific discovery.”
Read more at
Back to top.3. Three trouble spots facing women in science—and how we can tackle them
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu] and Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
June Gruber and colleagues identified three trouble spots that continue to hinder the advancement of women in their field: a sense of belonging, harassment and bullying, and compensation.
Read more at
Read the Gruber et al. journal article at
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691620952789?journalCode=ppsa
Back to top.4. Mid-Career Workshop
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
On December 2, 2020, the Association for the Study of Higher Education is hosting a workshop for mid-career faculty, including associate professors and those faculty members who are full professors but with 15 years plus remaining prior to retirement. The workshop has two goals: 1) offer a counter-narrative of the mid-career stage by looking at the ways in which faculty members and/or institutions can assert themselves to find opportunities to support mid-career faculty within challenging contexts, and 2) provide the needed scaffolding and supports to help mid-career faculty members assume personal agency over this ill-defined stage of the faculty career.
Learn more and register at
https://www.ashe.ws/midcareerworkshop2020
Back to top.5. Women in Space Speaker Series - Oct 29th
From: Women in Space [liftoff_at_womeninspacecon.com]
The next Women in Space Speaker Series on Thursday, October 29th, is by Divya Persaud and on the topic of "Organizing Access-Centered, Interdisciplinary Conferences".
Whether due to climate change, accessibility, or the ongoing pandemic, the format of conferences is rapidly transforming. Furthermore, space science as a field is slowly waking up to its place in society and responsibilities to all. Divya Persaud will talk about her experiences organizing Space Science in Context 2020, a virtual conference proposed pre-pandemic to address the need for planetary scientists and the social scientists, activists, and artists who study the field of space science in an access-centered medium. She will also reflect on the ongoing need to shift the way we meet and transfer intra- and inter-community ideas to better serve the planet.
Divya M. Persaud is a planetary scientist, writer, and composer. Divya’s research has spanned mission development and operations; the surfaces and interiors of Mercury, Mars, and the icy moons of Saturn; and meteorites and the asteroids they come from. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, where she is applying 3D imaging to understand the landing site of the Curiosity rover. She had spoken on and/or performed her equity and artistic internationally; with awards in both outreach and poetry, she is passionate about bridging the spheres of science, engagement, activism, and the arts.
Back to top.6. Too intelligent for the life sciences in Brazil: how two female researchers fought back
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Luciana Leite and Luisa M. Diele-Viegas
We grew up in Brazil and regularly faced discouragement when we told friends and family that we wanted to be scientists. L.L. was told that being a biologist was a waste of her intelligence, and despite her obvious love of nature, was turned by family members towards higher-paying professions, such as medicine. L.M.D.-V. was supported by her family but discouraged by teachers and peers of both genders because they felt that biology was not a sensible career move, and that she should be an engineer instead.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02978-y
Back to top.7. How to get more women and people of colour into graduate school — and keep them there
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Sibrina N. Collins
In 1916, Saint Elmo Brady became the first African American to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry in the United States. Eighty-four years later, I was one of only 44 Black chemists in the country to earn a PhD that year. As a chemistry professor in academia, I have seen many efforts to address diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Yet the needle has barely budged. In 2016, in a nation where 33% of people identify as Black, Latin American (Latinx) or Native American, only 9% of all science and engineering doctorates in the United States went to students from these groups.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02940-y
Back to top.8. 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
- Senior Backend Web Developer – Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Tucson, AZ https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/JobBoard/3a88e9d0-e68e-418e-9433-d36443ba8c5b/Opportunity/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=e66ab9cb-abed-49ca-ad8c-b62d19451bd9&sourceId=2279f479-a599-4022-ba07-27c4a773952a
- Online Part-time Faculty - Astronomy - American Public University System https://recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1070/JobBoard/711bd40f-864c-42db-8c62-3c62f2edc13f/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=f47a1dc4-7b43-42dc-929b-cc67bf4ea964
Back to top.9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.11. Access to Past Issues
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