Issue of October 20, 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:
1. Rethinking Tenure
2. AAS Members Are Invited to Use Equity-Minded Mentoring Toolkit
3. United States Mint announces Vera Rubin to appear on 2025 quarters
4. Her Space, Her Time How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
5. Do ‘Women in STEM’ Programs Violate Title IX?
6. The Stories Of The First Six Women Astronauts
7. Stellar Evolution Made Simple: Hands-on Activities for Cosmic Explorers
8. Job Opportunities
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.
In the past few weeks, several media outlets have published articles about tenure and its expectations. Topics range from re-envisioning how metrics (e.g., citation rates, h-index, prizes, invited talks) should be used (if at all) to eliminating tenure altogether.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/10/rethinking-tenure.html
Members of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) who mentor university students in research are invited to use a new research-backed toolkit designed to help mentors and mentees develop equity-minded mentoring relationships. Mentoring relationships are critical to scholarly identity development and a sense of belonging for graduate students, but the benefits of mentoring can often vary in inequitable ways across social identities such as race, class, and gender.
This resource was produced by the Research Hub of the Inclusive Graduate Education Network, of which the AAS is a partner society. The toolkit is the result of a Research Acceleratory Award and was developed with and for STEMM graduate students. While the Equity-Minded Mentoring Toolkit was initially designed to support STEMM graduate students (as both mentees and mentors), it is applicable to mentoring relationships across all levels of postsecondary education.
Read more and download the toolkit at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2023/10/aas-members-are-invited-use-equity-minded-mentoring-toolkit
In the fourth and final year of its American Women Quarters Program, the US Mint has announced the five women whose faces will appear on the tails side of US quarters in 2025, including astronomer Vera Ruin. Its dedication reads:
"Dr. Vera Rubin was a trailblazing astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation. Her observations provided the first persuasive evidence of dark matter, a major scientific discovery that transformed our understanding of the universe. During the 1970s, Dr. Rubin’s work produced clear observational evidence that confirmed the vast majority of the mass in the universe is invisible. Early in her career, Rubin struggled to gain recognition as a female astronomer in a male-dominated field, and throughout her career she fought to bring down barriers to research that women face due to sexism. In addition to her research, Rubin mentored other women astronomers and fought for gender parity in science. Rubin pushed for representation of women on scientific committees, as conference speakers, and as professors."
Read more at
By The MIT Press
"Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have transformed science and society, but the critical roles they played in their fields are not always well-sung. Her Space, Her Time, authored by award-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose, brings together the stories of these remarkable women to celebrate their indelible scientific contributions.
In each chapter of the book, Ghose explores a scientific topic and explains how the women featured in that chapter revolutionized that area of physics and astronomy. In doing so, she also addresses particular aspects of women's experiences in physics and astronomy: in the chapter on time, for instance, we learn of Henrietta Leavitt and Margaret Burbidge, who helped discover the big bang and the cosmic calendar; in the chapter on space exploration, we learn of Anigaduwagi (Cherokee) aerospace scientist Mary Golda Ross, who helped make the Moon landings possible; and in the chapter on subatomic particles, we learn of Marietta Blau, Hertha Wambacher, and Bibha Chowdhuri, who contributed to the discovery of the building blocks of the universe, and, in doing so, played a crucial role in determining who gets to do physics today."
Read more at
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048316/her-space-her-time/
Alexandra Brodsky, a campus civil rights attorney with the nonprofit legal advocacy group Public Justice, linked the campaign of Title IX complaints against women-in-STEM initiatives to the surge in similar complaints about race-based discrimination in minority-only programs following the Supreme Court’s June decision striking down affirmative action. The key difference, she said, is that it’s motivated by misogyny rather than racial grievance.
Read more [requires free account signup] at
The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts is a new book by Loren Grush that centers the stories of the first six women astronauts: Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Rhea Saddon, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Anna Fisher. NASA didn't allow women to be astronauts in the 1960s and ‘70s and first admitted them into its astronaut corps in 1978, along with the first three African American and first Asian American men.
Listen to Ira Glass' interview with the author at
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/first-six-women-astronauts/
The Girls STEAM Ahead with NASA (GSAWN) Program Cookbook provides resources for facilitators to "engage girls and their families in the wonders of NASA science." The newest activity provides an exploration into the life cycles of stars.
Read more at
https://aas.org/posts/news/2023/10/stellar-evolution-made-simple-hands-activities-cosmic-explorers
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
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