From Item 3Issue of February 25, 2022
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Alessandra Aloisi, Jeremy Bailin and Sethanne Howard
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Pandemic-related barriers to the success of women in research: a framework for action
2. The giant plan to track diversity in research journals
3. Confidence and Curiosity: 5 Tips for Girl-Friendly Engagement
4. Core memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possible
5. How the Smithsonian Is Honoring Remarkable American Women
6. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
7. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to 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. Pandemic-related barriers to the success of women in research: a framework for action
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Pamela B. Davis et al.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has struck at the very fabric of academic medicine, causing career uncertainty for many, with a disproportionate impact on underrepresented minorities, LGBT+ scientists, people with disabilities, and those from myriad non-traditional backgrounds. The challenges of the pandemic have been amplified for women, especially due to the additional burden of home caregiver responsibilities. Many women are at risk of dropping out of academic research altogether, unless urgent action is taken.”
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01692-8
Back to top.2. The giant plan to track diversity in research journals
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Holly Else & Jeffrey M. Perkel
Fifty publishers representing 15,000 journals are about to start asking authors, reviewers, and editors to disclose their race or ethnicity.
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00426-7
Back to top.3. Confidence and Curiosity: 5 Tips for Girl-Friendly Engagement
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
Working with the Girl Scouts, the NASA Night Sky Network team created 5 short videos with techniques to make astronomy clubs more welcoming to girls and women.
Read more at
Back to top.4. Core memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possible
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By Joy Lisi Rankin
“The historic Apollo moon missions are often associated with high-visibility test flights, dazzling launches and spectacular feats of engineering. But intricate, challenging handiwork - comparable to weaving - was just as essential to putting men on the moon. Beyond Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and a handful of other names that we remember were hundreds of thousands of men and women who contributed to Apollo over a decade. Among them: the Navajo women who assembled state-of-the-art integrated circuits for the Apollo Guidance Computer and the women employees of Raytheon who wove the computer’s core memory.”
Read more at
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/core-memory-weavers-navajo-apollo-raytheon-computer-nasa
Back to top.5. How the Smithsonian Is Honoring Remarkable American Women
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Lonnie G. Bunch III
From a series of coins to a museum in the making, the groundbreaking achievements of remarkable American Women gain new visibility at the Smithsonian.
Back to top.6. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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