Issue of May 31, 2024
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. DEIA and Education Activities at the Summer 244th AAS Meeting
2. Sally Ride: A timeless inspiration for women in science
3. Overcoming Stereotypes: Women in STEM
4. 'Lean in' messages can lower women's motivation to protest gender inequality
5. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
6. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
7. 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.
This summer’s 244th AAS meeting in Madison, Wisconsin will be held on June 9-13, 2024 jointly with the Laboratory Astrophysics Division. The meeting is promised to be jam-packed with a lot of great scientific talks, as well as opportunities for networking with colleagues and learning more about the state of our profession, equity, inclusion, education, and outreach.
The meeting showcases strong representation of women speakers in the plenary sessions. We also strongly encourage you to participate in other sessions sponsored by the AAS’s committees working with the AAS Board of Trustees to promote diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in Astronomy.
Read a full list of plenary speakers and events at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2024/05/deia-and-education-activities-at-summer.html
By StarsInsider
On June 18, 1983, Sally K. Ride became the first North American female astronaut to be sent into space. People around the world could hear the glass ceiling shattering as this 31-year-old physicist from California boarded the space shuttle Challenger and launched into history.
The mission was six days, she was accompanied by four colleagues, and she loved it so much she went again the following year.
Her journey to space was perhaps most difficult on Earth, as she had to squeeze into NASA, past years and years of gender bias and discrimination. She was asked questions her male colleagues never had to answer, and her ability was doubted at various points, but she had the intelligence, persistence, and determination that rendered everyone else’s opinions irrelevant.
So to celebrate the woman who stirred NASA up, check out this gallery and learn more about the almost-tennis star, quiet gay pride icon (she was only properly recognized as the first openly gay astronaut after her death), and pioneer for women in both science and space travel.
Read more and see the image gallery at
By Angela Teresa Hernandez Cajo, APEC
The success of our economies and the well-being of our societies depend on our ability to arrive at consensus when the scenario is complex, but the horizon is the same. Our contributions look forward to societies with equal opportunities and benefits where women and girls can develop freely and become catalyzers for our economies.
Thus, it is essential to address the obstacles that women still face in achieving economic empowerment, including social norms and practices that place them at a disadvantage or in subordinate positions, or that use motherhood as an excuse for exclusion or demand that they set aside their economic expectations to fulfill caregiving responsibilities. Despite the progress made in recent years and the increased prominence of women in political, economic, social and cultural life, inequalities persist in each of our economies.
Read more at
https://www.apec.org/press/blogs/2024/overcoming-stereotypes-women-in-stem
By University of Exeter
Women in leadership are often told to "Lean In," designed to be motivational messaging demonstrating that they are more confident, strategic and resilient to setback. However, new research indicates that such "lean in" messaging can hinder women's motivation to protest gender equality.
Authors say the findings of this research highlight an unintended consequence of "Lean In" messages and related individual resilience training for women that is offered as a remedy for gender inequality in the workplace—that it can undermine women's recognition of, and willingness to protest about, the root causes of gender inequality: discrimination.
Read more at
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-messages-women-protest-gender-inequality.html
Read the journal article at
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03616843241238176
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