From Item 5 (Credit: Hinterhaus Productions)
Issue of September 17, 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. Women less likely to win major research awards
2. Springboard to science: the institutions that shaped Black researchers’ careers
3. Banishing bias across disciplines, genders and experience - new tool for fairer research metrics
4. UChicago scientist Young-Kee Kim elected to presidency of the American Physical Society
5. Gender pay, promotion gaps wider in academia than in industry, research shows
6. Women will encounter bias in STEM. This new program helps them persist and overcome
7. Give Us a Chance to Shatter STEM's Glass Ceiling
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. Women less likely to win major research awards
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Clare Watson
Women’s share of international prizes rewarding research excellence is increasing, but still lags behind the proportion of professorial positions held by women, according to an analysis of 141 top science prizes awarded over the past two decades.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02497-4
Back to top.2. Springboard to science: the institutions that shaped Black researchers’ careers
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Virginia Gewin and David Payne
“Historically Black colleges and universities offer personal and professional support that predominantly white US institutions do not. ”
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02487-6
Back to top.3. Banishing bias across disciplines, genders and experience - new tool for fairer research metrics
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Flinders University
“h-index, g-index, i10 index, m-quotient, Journal Impact Factor, Altmetrics … it's long been an intractable issue plaguing the research community—how to assess the relative merits of research objectively across disciplines and make fair comparisons between early career and established researchers, different genders, and even different research disciplines. Now, Flinders University ecologist Professor Corey Bradshaw and colleagues have developed a tool to assess research performance more fairly; one that will level the playing field not just across disciplines, but across genders and careers paths, ironing out the wrinkles for disruptions such as maternity leave. Called the Epsilon Index, named for the Greek letter ε used to symbolize residuals in statistics, it takes into account the many differences in the research space to deliver a fairer comparison.”
Read more at
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-banishing-bias-disciplines-genders-experiencenew.html
Back to top.4. UChicago scientist Young-Kee Kim elected to presidency of the American Physical Society
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Maureen McMahon
“Prof. Young-Kee Kim, an eminent experimental physicist at the University of Chicago, has been elected future president of the American Physical Society. She will assume the position in 2024, when she will become the ninth UChicago scientist to do so.”
Read more at
Back to top.5. Gender pay, promotion gaps wider in academia than in industry, research shows
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Caitlin Mullen “For women in science and engineering, careers in the academic world tend to appeal for their flexibility and potential to make a difference. Recent research reveals a significant downside, however: Gender pay and promotion gaps are wider in academia than in industry, and that finding has researchers wondering why women so often opt for academia. Study authors, analyzing data from the National Science Foundation’s Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System, determined the gender pay gap for those with doctorate degrees in science or engineering is 1.5 times bigger in academia than in industry.” Read more at
Find original study at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-01008-0
Back to top.6. Women will encounter bias in STEM. This new program helps them persist and overcome
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Sarah D'lorio “Institutions committed to helping women succeed in STEM careers can now utilize a newly available training program designed to equip women graduate students with the tools to navigate gender-based career bias and discrimination. The free training materials are an outcome of a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant called `The NAVIGATE Project’, a collaboration between investigators at the University at Buffalo and California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) that aims to increase the number of women STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) graduates who persist in their chosen disciplines and achieve leadership roles.” Read more at
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2021/09/019.html
Learn more about the project at
http://www.buffalo.edu/navigate-project.html
Back to top.7. Give Us a Chance to Shatter STEM's Glass Ceiling
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Jomi Babatunde-Omoya and Fiona Harley
“As adolescents, we dreamed of pursuing careers in science. But until recently, neither of us were sure it was possible - because we never saw any engineers or scientists who looked like us. We're 18-year-old young women of color. One of us is from California, and the other is from Minnesota. Growing up, the people we saw working in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs were almost exclusively white men. That all changed when we started participating in a STEM internship program for high school students. We learned that we have what it takes to pursue careers in math and science - and that there are people with backgrounds like ours who are succeeding in these fields.”
Read more at
https://www.newsweek.com/give-us-chance-shatter-stems-glass-ceiling-opinion-1629045
Back to top.8. AAPT New Faculty Workshops
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
The American Association of Physics Teachers is offering workshops for new faculty. Tenure-track faculty, full-time lecturers (or equivalent), adjunct faculty and part-time faculty and post-docs are encouraged to register. The workshop series will give participants a first-hand experience with a small number of active-learning teaching strategies that have been shown to be effective in a wide variety of institutions, classroom settings, and course levels. By providing examples of well-tested paths to successful teaching in physics and astronomy, the workshop will allow you greater time to focus on research and scholarship, thereby offering benefits both to the faculty member and to the department. The registration deadline is October 22.
Learn more and register at
https://portal.aapt.org/Event.aspx?EventKey=NFAC_F21
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#howtoincrease
- Postdoctoral Fellowships in Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ https://web.astro.princeton.edu/jobs
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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