Issue of March 29, 2019
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride
1. Repost: Facing the Future: The CSWA seeks your input on our community needs in the 2020s!
2. NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk Over Spacesuit Sizes
3. Antonia Maury: A Female Astronomer's Fight For Recognition
4. Katie Couric: How We Can Eliminate Bias Against Women in Science
5. First scientist in human history- En Hedu'anna
6. What is gender equality in science? Common solutions may not be solving the problem
7. Announcing the first Communicating Science Conference (ComSciCon) with AAS!
8. Why we still struggle with work-home conflict in women and men
9. High school girls challenge toxic masculinity
11. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
13. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
1. Repost: Facing the Future: The CSWA seeks your input on our community needs in the 2020s!
From: Cristina Thomas via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
Blog Editor's Note: We are reposting this announcement as we get closer to the April 23 survey deadline. The CSWA is interested to hear from our community what activities should be prioritized as we move into the 2020s. Please respond and remember to share the survey with your colleagues.
The survey can be found here: https://goo.gl/forms/YEgYoTP4fKVtrSkx1
Read more about the survey at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2019/03/repost-facing-future-cswa-seeks-your.html
Back to top.2. NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk Over Spacesuit Sizes
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com], Stella Offner [soffner_at_astro.as.utexas.edu], and Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
"It hadn't been planned as a historic mission, yet it would have represented a moment of sorts: the first all-female spacewalk.
But that moment will have to wait, NASA said Monday, because of a somewhat basic issue - spacesuit sizes."
Read more at
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/science/female-spacewalk-canceled.html
and
Read an article about diversity in the world's space programs, including graphics at
https://womensenews.org/2019/03/a-small-step-for-women-a-gigantic-step-for-womankind
Back to top.3. Antonia Maury: A Female Astronomer's Fight For Recognition
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Kiona Smith
"Astronomer Antonia Maury was born with the stars in her blood on March 21, 1866. Her grandfather, John William Draper, had been the first astronomer to photograph the Moon, and her uncle Henry Draper was one of the most famous astronomers of his day; Maury and her siblings grew up in his orbit."
Read more at
Back to top.4. Katie Couric: How We Can Eliminate Bias Against Women in Science
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
Journalist Katie Couric describes ways in which we should be able to eliminate bias against women in science and offers examples from her own life. She notes "...even well-intentioned efforts to address our biases are, well, biased. Did you happen to catch the recent 60 Minutes segment about tech's gender gap? If so, you might have noticed something missing: There was no mention of women-led organizations working to solve the problem."
Read more at
http://fortune.com/2019/03/25/katie-couric-women-stem
Back to top.5. First scientist in human history- En Hedu'anna
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
Appropriate for March and women's history month. It is highly likely that the first scientist in human history was a woman: En Hedu'anna. She lived in 2300 BCE.
Read "En Hedu'anna, first woman in science" on Research Gate at
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322209033_En_Hedu%27anna_first_woman_in_science
Originally published in the 'Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences', 2017 vol. 103, issue 2, page 21
Back to top.6. What is gender equality in science? Common solutions may not be solving the problem
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com] and Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Cell Press
"Despite the scientific community taking action on gender inequality, the problem persists. In a review published March 27 in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution, researchers say that achieving equality for women in STEM requires us to ask, 'What is equality?' To create authentic equality, and not only regarding gender, the authors promote a simple first step: define the problem before finding the solution."
Read more at
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-gender-equality-science-common-solutions.html
Back to top.7. Announcing the first Communicating Science Conference (ComSciCon) with AAS!
From Stephanie Hamilton [aas_at_comscicon.org]
The ComSciCon (Communicating Science Conference) workshop series is partnering with AAS to bring a science communication training workshop to the 234th AAS meeting in St. Louis! We invite interested graduate students to apply for ComSciCon-AAS, a free 1.5-day workshop intended to amplify the reach of the highly successful ComSciCon flagship workshop. Our goal is to empower future leaders in technical communication to share the results from research in their field to broad and diverse audiences. Senior undergraduate students, post-baccalaureate researchers, and postdoctoral researchers are also welcome to apply, though preference will be given to graduate students. Applications are open NOW and will close at 11:59pm on April 2nd, 2019.
For more information, please visit
https://comscicon.com/comscicon-aas-2019
Questions may be directed to aas_at_comscicon.org.
Back to top.8. Why we still struggle with work-home conflict in women and men
From: Alessandra Aloisis [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
"Still in 2019 women and men grapple with how best to balance work and other responsibilities in and out of the home.
Women bear the brunt of household labor, take career hits if they become mothers, and are poorly represented in the upper levels of professional careers. But the careers of men also suffer if they take time out from paid work."
Read more at
http://theconversation.com/why-we-still-struggle-with-work-home-conflict-in-women-and-men-112698
Back to top.9. High school girls challenge toxic masculinity
From Joan Centrella [centrella.joan_at_gmail.com]
"Teen boys rated their female classmates based on looks. The girls fought back."
Dozens of senior girls at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School have confronted their administrators and male peers, demanding a school-wide reckoning over toxic masculinity.
Read more at
Back to top.10. Job Opportunities
- Lecturer in Planetary Science, The Open University, UK http://www.open.ac.uk/about/employment/vacancies/lecturer-planetary-science-15811
For those interested in increasing excellence and diversity in their organizations, a list of resources and advice is here: https://cswa.aas.org/diversity.html#howtoincrease
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