Issue of November 19, 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. Crosspost: The Impacts of Parenthood Are Not Equal
3. Catherine Heymans shines as Astronomer Royal for Scotland
4. Once Shunned in Antarctica, Female Scientists Are Now Doing Crucial Polar Research
5. These Women Found Creative Ways to Overcome the Barriers in Front of Them
6. Lost Women of Science, Episode 3: The Case of the Missing Portrait
7. Girls need a lot more than STEM education to become the next generation of women CEOs
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
An online version of this newsletter will be available at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
1. Crosspost: The Impacts of Parenthood Are Not Equal
From: Bryne Hadnott via http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
Written By Shelley O’Brien for AWIS
"Research shows that women who become mothers are offered fewer opportunities and earn less over their careers. Men who become fathers do not experience these severe consequences. Consider these data points from the Mothers in Science 2020 pre-COVID-19 global survey 'Impact of Parenthood on Career Progression in STEMM.'"
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/11/crosspost-impacts-of-parenthood-are-not.html
Back to top.2. Crosspost: None of the 2021 science Nobel laureates are women - here's why men still dominate STEM award winning
From: Bryne Hadnott via http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
Written By Mary K. Feeney for The Conversation
"All of the 2021 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men. That's a return to business as usual after a couple of good years for female laureates. In 2020, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the chemistry prize for their work on the CRISPR gene editing system, and Andrea Ghez shared in the physics prize for her discovery of a supermassive black hole."
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/11/crosspost-none-of-2021-science-nobel.html
Back to top.3. Catherine Heymans shines as Astronomer Royal for Scotland
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_ai_ua.edu]
"Recently, on a gameshow on the UK's BBC One, a contestant was stumped by an astronomy question. Luckily for them, hidden in the audience was the current Astronomer Royal of Scotland, a post recommended by an international panel and appointed by Queen Elizabeth II.
If the contestant could find the prestigious scientist, they could ask for help answering the question. It took several guesses, but they eventually found her: Professor Catherine Heymans."
Read more at
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/catherine-heymans-shines-as-astronomer-royal-for-scotland
Back to top.4. Once Shunned in Antarctica, Female Scientists Are Now Doing Crucial Polar Research
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Naomi Oreskes
"In 1981, as a young scientist, I applied for my dream job as a geologist with the British Antarctic Survey. As a child, I had adored snow and ice. Winter was my favorite season (and still is). My most cherished book was Wilson A. Bentley's atlas of snowflake photographs, and I avidly read the accounts by Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton of their Antarctic expeditions. As a teenager, I enjoyed hiking and camping. I studied earth science in college, and when I graduated with top honors from a premier university in Britain, it did not seem like a stretch to apply for a job as a geologist in a cold and snowy place.
The Survey promptly rejected me via a curt and slightly defensive letter. I could not be considered for that position- or, indeed, for any scientific position- because I was a woman."
Read more at
Back to top.5. These Women Found Creative Ways to Overcome the Barriers in Front of Them
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
"Women who are leaders across an array of disciplines, from politics to tech to deep-sea and space exploration - and more - share their experiences, their challenges and their advice."
Read more at
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/12/world/women-leadership [may be behind soft paywall -eds.]
Back to top.6. Lost Women of Science, Episode 3: The Case of the Missing Portrait
From: Maria Patterson [maria.t.patterson_at_gmail.com]
"A missing portrait of physician and pathologist Dorothy Andersen takes us on a journey into the perils of memorialization - and who gets to be remembered. Pediatric intensivist Scott Baird hunts for the portrait, and psychiatry resident Nientara Anderson and emergency medicine resident Lizzy Fitzsousa, both former medical students at Yale University, explain how, in today's diverse communities, 'dude walls' can have an insidious effect on those who walk past them every day."
Read more and find the podcast at
Back to top.7. Girls need a lot more than STEM education to become the next generation of women CEOs
From: Maria Patterson [maria.t.patterson_at_gmail.com]
"For more than a decade, STEM has been one of the hottest terms in education, especially when it comes to finally narrowing the gender gap and giving our girls an equal playing field in business and in life.
Science, technology, engineering, and math are essential subjects. An emphasis on encouraging women to study them, first embraced in the U.S. in the 1950s, has helped increase the number of women in 'left-brain' fields from only eight percent in 1970 to nearly 30% today."
Read more at
https://fortune.com/2021/11/17/women-ceos-girls-stem-education-shelly-hod-moyal-iangels
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
- Montana Space Grant Consortium Deputy Director, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT https://jobs.montana.edu/postings/27006
- Open rank Endowed Chair Faculty of Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK https://ou.edu/cas/physics-astronomy/news-events/news/articles/endowed-chair-faculty-position-in-astronomy-astrophysics
- Scientific Staff Positions, Astronomer/Scientist Tracks, National Optical Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, Tucson, AZ https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/JobBoard/57b96f30-6a4b-42cc-8f73-d417a17b54e9/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=208422c5-7e98-49ad-837c-0f3374ec6d8f
- Bart J. Bok Fellowship in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Steward Observatory University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ https://www.as.arizona.edu/bok_fellowship
- Alan Brass Fellowship in Instrumentation and Technology Development, Steward Observatory University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ https://www.as.arizona.edu/alan-brass-prize-fellowship-instrumentation-and-technology-development
- DSFP Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/3a8ca8c9
- Adler/CIERA Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, CIERA, Northwestern University and Adler Planetarium, Evanston / Chicago, IL https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/6644d399
- Education & Outreach Coordinator, CIERA, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/2cbee8ff
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