AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of December 2, 2022
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Alessandra Aloisi, and Sethanne Howard
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. 2022 Holiday Gift-giving Guide
2. Women and LGBTQ+ people aren’t tokens — don’t treat them as such
3. The Women Behind ENIAC
4. We’re Living in a New Era for Women in Space, On Screen and Off
5. Job Opportunities
6. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
7. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
8. Access to Past Issues
9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
11. Access to Past Issues
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
By Emily Rice, Debbie Kovalsky, and Kelle Cruz
Hello and happy holidays from STARtorialist HQ! In case we are new to you, STARtorialist was founded by professional astronomers to curate space- and science-themed products, support independent designers, and contribute to STEM education and outreach. After several years of pop-up ”BOOTHtiques” at AAS meetings, our online shop (https://shop.startorialist.com/) launched in summer 2020. We are grateful for the ongoing support of the astronomy research community, especially during the holiday season.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/11/holiday-gift-giving-guide-text-tbd-to.html
By Gwen Grinyer
"I recently turned down an invitation to participate in an important conference in my field. Such an invitation is normally an honour — and an opportunity for professional advancement that many early-career scientists don’t get. So, why did I decline?
The invitation wasn’t to talk about my research, but to co-organize a one-hour session for delegates to engage in conversations about equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in physics. According to conference rules, I was told, this session had to be led by a woman. My heart sank. I felt I was invited only because of my gender — not because of my qualifications as a scientist.”
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04147-9
By Joanna Goodrich
Kathy Kleiman’s new book "Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer” follows on her previous documentary film on the women responsible for programming ENIAC, the first general-purpose computer. In this interview, Kleiman discusses the accomplishes of these women and her inspiration in telling their story.
Read more at
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-women-behind-eniac#toggle-gdpr
By Margaret Weitekamp
"The critically acclaimed film 'Hidden Figures' (2016) brought public attention to significant aspects of NASA’s history. Based on Margo Lee Shetterly’s book of the same name, the movie dramatized the real-life story of three African American female mathematicians—KatherineJohnson (Taraji P. Henson), Mary Jack son (Janelle Monáe), and Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer)—who worked at the aeronautical research facility that became NASA’s Langley Research Center.
This history was not unknown. After all, President Barack Obama awarded Katherine Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2015, before both the movie and the book came out. And NASA announced some months before the movie was released that a newbuilding at Langley would be called the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility. But the popular reception of the movie greatly increased awareness of their story. Perhaps most significantly, the term “hidden figures” became shorthand for historiesthat had been forgotten (or previously ignored or dismissed), giving people a way to name those whose work had largely been overlooked.
The time seemed right for celebrating NASA’s women. In April 2016, Nathalia Holt published 'Rise of the Rocket Girls', recounting the histories of the women working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from its earliest days. Also in early 2016, months before HiddenFigures came out, Maia Weinstock, a science writer at MIT and Lego enthusiast, began designing a set of minifigures or “minifigs” depicting notable women of NASA.”
Read more at
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-books/2022/11/18/new-era-women-space-on-screen-off/
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
- Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Astrophysics, University of North Florida
https://www.unfjobs.org/postings/22087
- Tenure-Track Astronomy Professor at Agnes Scott College
https://www.agnesscott.edu/careers/faculty-openings/full-time-faculty-in-physics-astronomy.html
- Tenure-Track Astronomy/Astrophysics Assistant Professor at Towson University
https://towson.taleo.net/careersection/fac_ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=220000X6
- Brinson Prize Fellowship in Planet Formation at Wesleyan University (deadline December 15)
https://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/9271
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Two EMIT (Establishing Multimessenger Astronomy Inclusive Training)
Postdoctoral Fellowships at Fisk University and Vanderbilt University
write to k.holley@vanderbilt.edu, with the subject line “EMIT Fellow”
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2 postdoc positions in Supernova and in Data science in the Astronomy
Department of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville - deadline
Dec 15
https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/faa60782
- Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville - deadline Dec 31
https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/7ae63067
- Downsbrough Endowed Chair in Astrophysics, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/f873796a
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