Issue of December 24, 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:
1.Crosspost: Astronomy Decadal Survey Reckons with Demographic Disparities, Societal Impacts
2. More Than 10,000 Studies Debunk Outdated Biological 'Explanation' For Male Success
3. Celebrate female scientists with these titles
4. When Will They Find Out I'm an Imposter?
5. How a Prestigious Scientific Organization Came Under Suspicion of Treating Women Unequally
6. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Bonus Episode: The Resignation
8. Measures to improve gender balance are working
9. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
11. 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.
1. Crosspost: Astronomy Decadal Survey Reckons with Demographic Disparities, Societal Impacts
From: Bryne Hadnott via http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com
Released last month, the National Academies’ latest decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics includes an intensive assessment of the “state of the profession” and its “societal impacts” for the first time in the survey’s 60-year history.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2021/12/crosspost-astronomy-decadal-survey.html
Back to top.2.More Than 10,000 Studies Debunk Outdated Biological 'Explanation' For Male Success
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Mike McRae
From world politics to top-ranking businesses, to the upper rungs of academia and even Nobel laureates, men outnumber women by a significant margin.
One claim to such disparity has been attributed to biology. The idea there's some kind of 'superdiversity' among male brains has been repeatedly cited in the scientific literature in recent decades; but according to a newly published meta-analysis, this argument for male success is entirely unsupported by evidence.
Read more at
Back to top.3. Celebrate female scientists with these titles
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
A recent Google Doodle celebrated Kamal Ranadive, an Indian biomedical researcher. Celebrate Ranadive’s contributions and those of many other female scientists, past and present, by picking up a book. Here are four recommendations brought to you by your friends at Pima County Public Library.
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Back to top.4. When Will They Find Out I'm an Imposter?
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Beth Linas, PhD, MHS
Even as I sit down to write about imposter syndrome, I'm experiencing it. I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist, not a writer or expert on imposter syndrome, so why would anyone care about what I have to say on the topic? Perhaps you will relate to my feelings of "intellectual self-doubt" as a woman in science, starting a new job remotely, amidst a global pandemic.
Read more at
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/96264
Back to top.5. How a Prestigious Scientific Organization Came Under Suspicion of Treating Women Unequally
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Rafaela von Bredow
From the beginning, her career had been a brilliant one. Nicole Boivin, a biologist and archaeologist, completed her doctorate at Cambridge and landed her first job there before going on to work in Paris and then, for many years, at the University of Oxford. Germany’s Max Planck Society (MPS), one of the world’s most prestigious research institutions, then appointed her as one of its "most highly qualified scientists for leadership positions in science" at the newly founded Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, where she started as director in 2016.
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Back to top.6. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Bonus Episode: The Resignation
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Katie Hafner
In 1949, at the height of his career, Rustin McIntosh, director of pediatrics at Columbia University’s Babies Hospital, submitted his letter of resignation. Scott Baird, who wrote a biography on pathologist Dorothy Andersen, takes us back to this pivotal moment, which occurred at the dawn of pediatric pathology in the U.S. Through archival resources, Baird explores the institutional tensions that led to this abrupt resignation. At the eye of the storm is a character we’ve come to know well, perhaps the most important person working in pediatric pathology at the time: Andersen.
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Back to top.7. Surveys of scientists show women and young academics suffered most during pandemic and may face long-term career consequences
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
By Lesley Michalegko
On March 6, 2020, universities across the U.S. announced systematic laboratory closures, social distancing policies and travel bans to cope with the growing coronavirus epidemic. These actions, while prudent and necessary, had immediate negative impacts on the academic enterprise of science in the U.S. and around the world.
Read more at
Back to top.8. Measures to improve gender balance are working
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]
Many technology studies are strongly male-dominated, which shows up in the labour market afterwards and is one of several reasons why women on average earn less than men.
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has worked purposefully and over time to recruit more women to both choose and complete their education in a technology field.
Read more at
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/937828
Back to top.9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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Back to top.10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
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