AASWomen Newsletter for August 21, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of August 21, 2020
eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]

This week's issues:

Leta Stetter Hollingworth, item 2
University of Nebraska Press

1. A female Ph.D. student’s cautionary tale and the need for peer mentorship

2. Meet The Forgotten Female Scientist Who Debunked Theories Of Male Superiority

3. Wives, Physics, and Nepotism in Academia

4. How to Showcase Your CV in a 2-Page Resume

5. Reckoning with Our Mistakes

6. Women less likely to receive pay for college internships

7. The X-Files and the Scully Effect - fake aliens, real-world phenomenon for women in STEM

8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for December 20, 2019

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of December 20, 2019
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

Mileva Maric-Einstein, from item 2

This week's issues:

1. Meet Your CSWA, Kathleen Eckert

2. Casualty Of Genius: The Sacrifice Of Mileva Maric-Einstein

3. Nature's 10: Ten people who mattered in science in 2019

4. What Works to Close Gender Gaps?

5. Full Spectrum Documentary Short Film

6. Bringing community astronomy to rural Africa

7. Male Researchers More Apt Than Women to Hype Findings: Study

8. US biomedical agency has investigated hundreds claims of inappropriate conduct this year

9. There's No Winter Break From 'Publish or Perish'

10. Become a reviewer for the National Fellowship Program: Information for new reviewers

11. Biennial European Astrobiology Conference (BEACON)

12. Applied Galactic Dynamics Summer School

13. Global gender equality will take another 100 years to achieve, study finds

14. First-Year Graduate Students in Physics and Astronomy: Characteristics and Background

15. 'Miss America can be a scientist': Camille Schrier of Virginia wins after onstage chemistry experiment

16. Women Representation on Company Boards Increased From 5% In 2012 To 13% In 2018

17. Grading for STEM Equity

18. Job Opportunities

19. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

20. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

21. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWOMEN Newsletter for July 20, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of July 20, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. How to Avoid Becoming a Sexual Predator

2. How We Got from Then (1971) to Now -- The Annie Jump Cannon Award and the First Working Group on the Status of Women in Astronomy

3. IAU Survey on Closing the Gender Gap in Science

4. Maria Mitchell Women in Science Symposium Early Bird Registration Deadline Extended to August 1

5. Overlooked No More: Beatrice Tinsley, Astronomer Who Saw the Course of the Universe

6. More Than a Century Ago, Astronomer Phoebe Waterman Defied Her Doubters

7. New analysis of funding trends offers encouraging news for female investigators—with caveats

8. When Women Stopped Coding

9. Infographic: What Do You Call Your Professor?

10. Women Making Science Videos on YouTube Face Hostile Comments

11. For Scientists Running for Congress, Victory Doesn't Depend on Science

12. Job Opportunities

13. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

14. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

15. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Amelia Earhart: Early Pioneer in the Age of Technology

I recently ran across the Christmas card below from Amelia Earhart which got me interested in the remarkable story of this woman persevering against the pressures of her time.  Earhart spent her life pursuing her passion for flying and pushing the envelop in aviation.  Her motivation was to expand the capabilities of planes, not just of what women could do, and she had to conquer bias at every turn.

Earhart was born in 1897 and took her first plane ride at the age of 23.  She immediately became hooked and worked various odd jobs to save money for lessons with pioneering female aviator Anita Snook.  She spent every minute of her free time learning about planes and flying.  Within 3 years she had her own plane, international pilot's license (16 woman to have one) and set an altitude record (14,000 ft) for a female aviator.

In 1928, a year after Lindberg's transatlantic flight, she was asked to join a team with two men with the purpose of her becoming the first woman to cross the Atlantic.  They flew that year and she gained fame from the accomplishment.  However, she wasn't satisfied since a man did the flying and she was only a co-pilot.  She later complained that she "was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes".  That was never to happen again.