From Item #3 Issue of February 26, 2021
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. That’s who I am, that’s who I be, but that’s not everything
2. We’ve been cooped up with our families for almost a year. This is the result.
3. Building a Diverse Workplace: Top 10 Communities for Women in Tech
4. Elsevier Promotes Transparency By Publishing Editors’ Genders
5. Science diversified: The men who say no to manels
6. Supporting women in academia during and after a global pandemic
7. Unequal parenthood impacts may explain academia's publication gender gap
8. NASA Planetary Science Summer School 2021
10. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
12. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
1. That’s who I am, that’s who I be, but that’s not everything
From: Nicolle Zellner via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
“Dr. Renee Horton, whose career has taken her all over the world, discussed her experiences as a black woman in science at the October 2020 meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences. Now a Quality Engineer in the NASA Residential Management Office at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Dr. Horton's inspirational messages remind us that overcoming imposter syndrome, finding some sort of balance in our lives, living with intersecting identities, and figuring out our life's passion(s) are constant challenges. ”
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/02/thats-who-i-am-thats-who-i-be-but-thats.html
Back to top.2. We’ve been cooped up with our families for almost a year. This is the result.
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Andrew Van Dam
“At the height of the pandemic, most working Americans spent at least a few weekdays at home. Some were laid off, some were working remotely, but most had one thing in common: They were suddenly spending long hours inside a single house or apartment with the same few family members. It will stand as one of the fastest, most sweeping shifts of human behavior in modern history.”
Read more at
Back to top.3. Building a Diverse Workplace: Top 10 Communities for Women in Tech
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Adilin Beatrice
“The tech workplace has become much more diverse over the past decade. Even though it is an achievement to cherish, the vast majority of software engineering, cybersecurity and other tech jobs are still filled by men. The implementation of a completely equal working space with richer company culture which could make the employees happier and creative is still on the bucket list untouched. Not just tech, women in STEM on a whole is mostly underrepresented... To tackle gender inequality, women chose to fight against discrimination and help each other in developing a diverse culture with unity.”
Read more at
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/building-a-diverse-workplace-top-10-communities-for-women-in-tech
Back to top.4. Elsevier Promotes Transparency By Publishing Editors’ Genders
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Philanthropy Women Organization “Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, is pleased to announce the first step of visualizing the gender balance of its scientific journals’ editors. Following a successful pilot project, over 500 journals will now display the self-reported data of their editors’ gender to support openness and increase inclusion and diversity (I&D) in this space.” Read more at
Back to top.5. Science diversified: The men who say no to manels
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Dom Byrne
"Two male researchers became gender-equity allies after witnessing how female colleagues were treated in meetings and job interviews."
Listen to the podcast and read the transcript at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00165-1
Back to top.6. Supporting women in academia during and after a global pandemic
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Tiffany A. Reese, Tamia A. Harris-Tryon, Jennifer G. Gill and Laura A. Banaszynski
“More than ever, now is the time to challenge long-standing institutional traditions and policies that propagate gender inequity. Solving such widespread problems will not be easy, but with persistent effort and multipronged approaches, institutions can restructure academic science so that it supports and retains the best and brightest minds. The most progressive and successful institutions will break the antiquated mold of academic science and eliminate barriers to recruiting and retaining women in science.”
Read the authors' recommendations at
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/9/eabg9310
Back to top.7. Unequal parenthood impacts may explain academia's publication gender gap
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
“Parenthood leads to greater reductions in short-term research productivity for mothers across three disciplines than for fathers, largely explaining the publication gender gap between women and men in academia, according to an analysis of survey data from 3,064 tenure track faculty at PhD-granting universities in the U.S. and Canada. The findings suggest that policies designed to boost workplace flexibility for parents, including easily accessible lactation rooms and affordable childcare, may help to ease the impact of parenthood on mothers in academia, giving them more time for research.”
Read the AAAS News Release at
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/aaft-upi022221.php
Read the related journal article at:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/9/eabd1996
Back to top.8. NASA Planetary Science Summer School 2021
From: Leslie Lowes [Leslie.L.Lowes_at_jpl.nasa.gov]
Applications are now open for the NASA Planetary Science Summer School offered by JPL in 2021. Science & engineering doctoral candidates, recent PhDs, postdocs, & junior faculty who are U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents (and a very limited number of Foreign Nationals from non-designated counties) are eligible to apply. Application deadline is April 1, 2021.
Read more at
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/intern/apply/nasa-science-mission-design-schools/#eligibility
Register for the NASA PSSS Applications Q&A webinar on March 4, 2021 at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevYI7J5ahyL1rewFLsfvLj-qlgLYNOco7vsmgnsHr3I1khZQ/viewform
Apply for the NASA PSSS 2021 at
https://psss.jpl.nasa.gov/psss2021
Back to top.9. 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
- Executive Director, Maria Mitchell Association, Nantucket, MA https://www.mariamitchell.org/job-opportunities
- Deputy Director for Science, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ https://lowell.edu/about/employment
Back to top.10. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.12. Access to Past Issues
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