AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of June 2, 2023
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
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2. Ten Ways to Improve Support Resources for Workplace Incivility in Astronomy
3. The glass ceiling in the ivory tower: A century of gender gaps in academia across the globe
4. Theano of Thuria: The Female Astronomer of Antiquity
5. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
6. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
7. 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.
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1. DEIA Activities at the Summer AAS Meeting
From: Karly Pitman via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
This summer’s AAS 242 in Albuquerque (4-8 June 2023) promises to be a good one! This meeting features a strong plenary slate of women speakers, including:
Julia Blue Bird
Kathryne Daniel
Jeyhan Kartaltepe
Linda Shore
Meenakshi (Mini) Wadhwa
Katarina Yocum
In addition to the great science and education talks, other sessions you might be interested in related to state of the profession, inclusion, equity, and DEI are happening on June 5.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/06/deia-activities-at-summer-aas-meeting.html
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2. Ten Ways to Improve Support Resources for Workplace Incivility in Astronomy
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Floor Broekgaarden for astrobites
Many astronomers experience workplace incivility including bullying, (sexual) harassment, or racism in their career (either as target or witness). Finding support to navigate such situations is important, yet challenging, especially for early-career astronomers or underrepresented minorities. This contributes to the structural exclusion of those that experience or witness workplace incivility from our astronomy community. Here I suggest ten ways that departments, institutes, collaborations, and conference organizers can improve support for astronomers that experience or witness incivility.
Read more at
Read the original article in Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (BAAS) at
https://baas.aas.org/pub/2023i020/release/1
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3. The glass ceiling in the ivory tower: A century of gender gaps in academia across the globe
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Alessandro Iaria, Carlo Schwarz, and Fabian Waldinger
In academia, women remain under-represented across most disciplines and countries. This column traces how gender gaps in academia evolved over the 20th century and across the globe, using the largest database of university academics ever assembled. By the end of the century, women remain significantly under-represented in prestigious universities. However, by 2000 the gender gap in citations had nearly disappeared and the gap in promotions in the sciences had closed.
Read more at
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/glass-ceiling-ivory-tower-century-gender-gaps-academia-across-globe
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4. Theano of Thuria: The Female Astronomer of Antiquity
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Anna Siampani
Theano of Thuria defeated the male establishment of science and philosophy and emerged as a great astronomer and mathematician of Greek antiquity. She was born in about 546 BC. at the Thurians of lower Italy, the Athenian colony of Greece. She was probably the daughter of Doctor Brontinus. The name Theano for the ancient Greeks was a unique and signifying name. Theano was called, according to The Iliad, the priestess of Athena. From her name, we understand that Theano’s parents had envisioned an extraordinary fate for their daughter early on, and this seems to have become a reality early on, as Theano became a well-known philosopher and scientist.
Read more at
https://ceoworld.biz/2023/05/26/theano-of-thuria-the-female-astronomer-of-antiquity/
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7. Access to Past Issues
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