Issue of April 09, 2021
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:
2. Short comment for the newsletter
3. Women Of Color Lead Gender Equality In STEM Education
4. Student-Led Report Finds Gender, Ethnicity-Based Disparities in Computer Science at Harvard
5. Micronesian scientist becomes first Pacific Islander to reach ocean's deepest point
7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ every Friday afternoon.
1. Seeking CSWA Members!
From Nicolle Zellner via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
The Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (CSWA) is seeking new members! We are a committee of like-minded people, promoting the committee's mission to build an inclusive and self-sustaining community that supports gender equity and the success of women* in astronomy.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/04/seeking-cswa-members.html
Back to top.2. Short comment for the newsletter
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]
I would like to submit a short comment for the newsletter.
I am not a woman astronomer. I am an astronomer who happens to be female. We do not put the gender in front of the job for men, so why do it for the women? It would be nice to see this small bit of syntax become more the norm for communication. Sometimes it is necessary to include the gender, but not universally.
Also I bring to the attention of the community (as I have done before) the book The Hidden Giants, available from Amazon, which tells the story of 4000 years of women in science. We have been part of the great progress in science from the beginning.
Sethanne Howard
Back to top.3. Women Of Color Lead Gender Equality In STEM Education
From: Alessandra Aloisi [aloisi_at_stsci.edu]
By Rhett Power
Latina women have closed the gender gap in technical college-entrance exams, and African American women outnumber men 3-to-2 in those exams. After decades of research showcasing women of color behind both men of color and White women, new UC Berkeley research highlights encouraging data in which women of color are making progress in STEM education.
Read more at
Back to top.4. Student-Led Report Finds Gender, Ethnicity-Based Disparities in Computer Science at Harvard
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Justin Lee and Lauren L. Zhang
Widespread disparities based on gender, ethnicity, and other factors of identity persist in undergraduates’ experiences in computer science at Harvard, according to a report published Friday by the student advocacy group Harvard Women in Computer Science.
The 2020 WiCS Advocacy Survey Report aimed to assess how “gender, ethnicity, and other aspects of identity” inform College students’ experiences within Harvard’s Computer Science department.
Read more at
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/4/7/wics-report-finds-disparities
Back to top.5. Micronesian scientist becomes first Pacific Islander to reach ocean's deepest point
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Jon Letman
It is a place that has been visited by fewer people than have flown to the moon – pitch black, 11km down, the last frontier.
Last month, Nicole Yamase became the first Pacific Islander, the third woman, and, at 29, the second-youngest person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest known part of the Mariana Trench.
Read more at
Back to top.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
- 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher with the IMPACT Group, Boulder Colorado https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=29553
Back to top.7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.9. Access to Past Issues
https://aas.org/comms/cswa/AASWOMEN
Each annual summary includes an index of topics covered.
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