AAS Committee on
the Status of Women in Astronomy
Issue of August 23, 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:
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1. Meet Central American-Caribbean
Astronomy Bridge Program Fellows - Part 9
2. Register for the Equity in
Graduate Admissions Workshops
3. Women's Equality Day, August 26
2024
4. Gender bias might be working at
level of whole disciplines
5. How do we bring more diversity
to STEM?
6. Job Opportunities
7.
How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
8.
How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
9. 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. Meet Central American-Caribbean Astronomy Bridge Program Fellows - Part 9
From: Thara Caba via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
My name is Thara Caba. I am 24 years old and I was born in the Dominican Republic. I earned my Bachelor’s Degree in Physics at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo.
I first became interested in astronomy by watching TV shows like Doctor Who and Cosmos. In my undergrad I had the opportunity to do my thesis at the University of PadovaUniversity of Padova in Italy and reaffirmed my love for astronomy and astrophysics and that this is the path I want to follow.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2024/08/meet-central-american-caribbean.html
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2.
Register for the Equity in Graduate Admissions Workshops
From:
Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
Join the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) for a two-part online workshop series. Grounded in research and designed to empower you to advance equity and inclusion, this immersive experience will guide you through insightful reflection, foster productive dialogue, and equip you with concrete action steps to cultivate a more inclusive and equitable learning environment for all.
Learn more and register at
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3.
Women's Equality Day, August 26 2024
From:
Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
At the behest of Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), in 1971 and passed in 1973, the U.S. Congress designated August 26 as “Women’s Equality Day.” The date was selected to commemorate the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote.
Read more at
https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/resources/commemorations/womens-equality-day/
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4.
Gender bias might be working at level of whole disciplines
From:
Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]
By Holly Else
Inequity between men and women in research funding and researcher performance evaluation has been firmly established as a problem in science policy for many years. But an emerging body of research is documenting a new piece of the puzzle, which some think has been hiding in plain sight: that whole research fields might be prone to gender bias.
“People just believe that there are some disciplines that are better than others,” says Alex James, a mathematician at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, who led one the latest studies on the phenomenon. “And it turns out that ones that we think are a bit rubbish are all full of women.”
Read more at
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02502-6
Read the journal article at
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/97613v2
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5.
How do we bring more diversity to STEM?
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
By James McConchie
Women and people of color are not well-represented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs. Despite the fact that more women graduate college than men, they occupy only 35% of the jobs in the science and engineering workforce. Further, Black and Latino students comprise less than 20% of those studying science- or math-based disciplines and less than 5% of the STEM-based workforce. And beyond these disparities, interest in such fields lags behind what is needed for our future workforce.
How can we drive more interest in STEM?
Read more at
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_do_we_bring_more_diversity_to_stem
Read the peer-reviewed article at
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpspi0000377
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6. Job Opportunities
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
NASA Astrobiology RCN Support
Liaison/Project Coordinator
- https://careers.kbr.com/us/en/job/R2093518/NASA-Astrobiology-RCN-Support-Liaison-Project-Coordinator
Tenure-Track Position, Assistant
Professor, Focus: Planetary Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28118
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7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN
newsletter
To submit an item to the AASWOMEN newsletter, including replies to topics, send email to aaswomen_at_lists.aas.org .
All material will be posted unless you tell us otherwise, including your email address.
Please remember to replace "_at_" in the e-mail address above.
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8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe
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9. Access to Past Issues
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/search/label/AASWOMEN
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