Issue of June 28, 2019
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, JoEllen McBride, and Alessandra Aloisi
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This week's issues:
1. Crosspost: A fast-moving revolution: from Stonewall toward a more diverse scientific workforce
2. House Bill Seeks To Name Large Synoptic Survey Telescope For Astronomer Vera Rubin
3. Record-breaking Astronaut Peggy Whitson: ‘It’s an Exciting Time for Space Exploration’
4. Saydean Zeldin: Guiding Apollo’s engines
5. Elaine Denniston: The woman who corrected Apollo's code
6. It could take 118 years for female computer scientists to match publishing rates of male colleagues
7. People trust scientists, says landmark survey, but there are troubling trends
8. International Women in Engineering Day 2019: role models critical to women’s success
9. Richmond woman performs science experiment onstage, wins Miss Virginia 2019
10. AWIS Launches STEM Equity Community Platform with Elsevier's Support
11. What to Do When You’re the Only Woman in the Room
12. STEM Gap: No State Has More Women Than Men w/ Tech Degrees
13. Opinion: 10 Ways to Support New Mothers in STEM
14. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
15. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
16. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter
1. Crosspost: A fast-moving revolution: from Stonewall toward a more diverse scientific workforce
From: JoEllen McBride via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
By Bruno da Rocha-Azevedo
“June 2019 is a special year for the LGBTQ+ community. The Stonewall riots started the fight for gay rights in the United States. It can be seen as a collective “coming out” of people fighting to be recognized as they are. It was violent, and not a “fun event” as our Pride Parade is nowadays. However, the riots had a strong impact on society. One year later, Gay Pride marches started all over the nation, and each year gay rights has moved more and more towards equality. Every June, we should pay respect to and celebrate with pride these strong men and women who fought for our rights and who were the start of a fast-moving revolution.”
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2019/06/crosspost-fast-moving-revolution-from.html
Back to top.2. House Bill Seeks To Name Large Synoptic Survey Telescope For Astronomer Vera Rubin
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Kiona N. Smith
“A bill before the U.S. House of Representatives could name the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in honor of astronomer Vera Rubin, who discovered the first clear evidence of dark matter.”
Read more at
Back to top.3. Record-breaking Astronaut Peggy Whitson: ‘It’s an Exciting Time for Space Exploration’
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Alison Klesman
"Peggy Whitson’s career as an astronaut has been trailblazing: With a total of 665 days in space, Whitson not only currently holds the space endurance record in the U.S., she is eighth on that list overall. She was the first woman astronaut to hold NASA’s chief astronaut position, has completed a total of 10 spacewalks over the course of her career, and commanded the International Space Station twice."
Read more at
Back to top.4. Saydean Zeldin: Guiding Apollo’s engines
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Korey Haynes
“From programming the computer that helped Apollo fly to developing novel software engineering techniques after leaving NASA, one woman has had a major hand in the way technology works today.”
Read more at
https://astronomy.com/news/2019/06/saydean-zeldin-guiding-apollos-engines
[This article will also be part of our Apollo anniversary blog post. Stay tuned! -- eds.]
Back to top.5. Elaine Denniston: The woman who corrected Apollo's code
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Korey Haynes
“Although her job description ended with punching programs into cards to be run by the computer, this sharp-eyed keypuncher corrected programmers' code on her own to ensure it ran properly.”
Read more at
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/06/elaine-denniston-apollo-keypuncher
[This article will also be part of our Apollo anniversary blog post. Stay tuned! -- eds.]
Back to top.6. It could take 118 years for female computer scientists to match publishing rates of male colleagues
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Jeffrey Brainard
"It could be well into the 21st century before female computer scientists annually publish as many research articles as their male counterparts, an analysis published today concludes. If current trends in publishing continue, women in biomedical research are likely to reach parity sooner, possibly by 2050."
Read more at
Back to top.7. People trust scientists, says landmark survey, but there are troubling trends
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Farah Qaiser
"In nearly every region, when comparing across similar years of education, men were significantly more likely (49%) to say they knew some or a lot about science compared to women (38%). This gender gap was the greatest in Northern Europe (75% versus 58%), but was negligible with a difference of only 3-4% in three regions: the Middle East, South America and Southeast Asia.
WGM suggests that this gender gap may be due to social norms or a difference in levels of confidence between men and women. While the answer is unclear, one thing is certain: this gender gap affects who participates – and benefits – from science."
Read more at
https://massivesci.com/articles/trust-in-science-vaccination-climate-change-pseudoscience
Back to top.8. International Women in Engineering Day 2019: role models critical to women’s success
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By E&T editorial staff
“Industry-leading engineers and entrepreneurs joined a roundtable at startup accelerator Future Worlds to consider ways to bring more women into both engineering and entrepreneurship.”
Read more at
Back to top.9. Richmond woman performs science experiment onstage, wins Miss Virginia 2019
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]
"Clad in a white lab coat, safety goggles and protective gloves, she mixed chemicals into beakers and yielded an explosion of blue and orange foam-like substances.... Her experiment won the preliminary talent award and a $1,000 scholarship."
Read more at
Back to top.10. AWIS Launches STEM Equity Community Platform with Elsevier's Support
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By AWIS & Elsevier
"AWIS today announces the launch of the ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network Community which connects scholars and practitioners committed to equity in STEM. In support of this initiative, Elsevier's leading reference manager and academic social network, Mendeley, will host a dedicated ARC Network group. In addition, SSRN, Elsevier's leading early stage research and preprint server, will host a dedicated STEM First Look series to support the initiative."
Read the press release here
Learn more about the Network here
Back to top.11. What to Do When You’re the Only Woman in the Room
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Dolly Chugh
"In my first job out of college, at an investment bank, I spent a year as the only woman — and only person of color — on a seven-person team.
Being the only one had some benefits (I guess): I was usually noticed and remembered. I suspect that my ability to keep up — and even surpass the performance of my male peers — was at times unexpected, and thus viewed positively by some in the firm.
But it also meant there were few role models for me. It was harder for me to visualize being there long-term. I felt like an outlier."
Read more at
https://www.nytimes.com/guides/working-womans-handbook/token-woman-in-room
Back to top.12. STEM Gap: No State Has More Women Than Men w/ Tech Degrees
From: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Eric Griffith
"If it's not common knowledge that women in the US earn cents for every dollar a man makes (89 cents, according to Pew Research), it should be. That's not the only place where the gaps between the genders remain. For the STEM gap, new research shows the state-by-state differences."
Read more at
https://www.pcmag.com/news/369240/stem-gap-no-state-has-more-women-than-men-w-tech-degrees
Back to top.13. Opinion: 10 Ways to Support New Mothers in STEM
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Michele Hoffmann “A support group for mothers is a model for practical, inexpensive steps to ease women’s transition to motherhood—and hopefully retain them in science.”
Read more at
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/opinion--10-ways-to-support-new-mothers-in-stem-66056
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