AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of August 11, 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.]
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1. Crosspost: Martha Shapley - Astronomer
2. Lady Stardust: the life of astronomical Margaret Burbidge
3. Young. Female. Scientist. Meet 4 of the Army's Rising Civilian Stars
4. The Fungi-Mad Ladies of Long Ago
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. Crosspost: Martha Shapley - Astronomer
From: Deborah Shapley via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
Martha Betz Shapley was known as First Lady of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) during the 32 years her husband Harlow was its Director. “The friendship and hospitality she extended to members of the Harvard astronomical family…was one of the highest experiences of my younger days,” wrote Leo Goldberg on her death in 1981.
From 1915 - 1921, Martha published several [astronomy] papers of her own; she was also Harlow’s co-author; he credits her in the text of some of his “great papers” series. Maybe Martha could have continued a full astronomy career and as a mother of five. But her husband’s scientific activity and fame exploded so their lives took unexpected busy paths.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/08/crosspost-martha-shapley-astronomer.html
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2. Lady Stardust: the life of astronomical Margaret Burbidge
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
Stephen Roberts looks back on the life of Lady Stardust, who gazed at stars and broke glass ceilings but was denied a Nobel Prize
Read more at
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3. Young. Female. Scientist. Meet 4 of the Army's Rising Civilian Stars
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
According to a 2019 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission report supplement, women account for only 29.3% of STEM federal workers, with significantly fewer women in technology and engineering fields than expected. As military technology and processes continue to develop, the Defense Department would like to continue growing that number.
Read more at
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4. The Fungi-Mad Ladies of Long Ago
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
By: Anna Marija Helt
In mycology’s early days, botanical drawing was, for some women, a calling. Their mushroom renderings were key to establishing this new field. Studying fungi was decidedly unladylike, though, and the scientific establishment largely ignored these women despite their valuable professional contributions.
Read more at
https://daily.jstor.org/the-fungi-mad-ladies-of-long-ago/
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