Issue of April 21, 2023
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Nicolle Zellner, Sethanne Howard, and Hannah Jang-Condell
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Requesting Input for Study on Caregiving
2. Where are the Muslim girls and women in STEM?
3. Women in Physics Canada Conference (WIPC), July 4-7, 2023
4. Journey to the stars: the personal stories of women in astronomy
5. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
6. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
7. Access to Past Issues
An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a committee on Policies and Practices for Supporting Family Caregivers Working in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/04/requesting-input-for-study-on-caregiving.html
By Rashina Hoda, Associate Professor, Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity, and Deputy Director of the HumaniSE Lab, Faculty of IT
'"You can’t be what you can’t see” is the motto of Science and Technology Australia’s Superstars of STEM program. When I was first selected as one of 60 women to join its 2021-22 cohort, little did I know this phrase would become my “North Star"
Read more at
https://lens.monash.edu/@science/2023/04/17/1385598/where-are-the-muslim-girls-and-women-in-stem
The 2023 Women in Physics Canada Conference will be held in Winnipeg on July 4-7. The keynote speaker is Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Note that the abstract submission and travel support request deadlines have been extended to May 1, which is also the childcare support request deadline.
Read more at
https://sci.umanitoba.ca/wipc2023/
by Karel Green for physicsworld
Karel Green reviews The Sky Is For Everyone: Women Astronomers In Their Own Words edited by Virginia Trimble and David A Weintraub.
"As recently as the 1970s, the field of astronomy was so dominated by men that telescope facilities didn’t even have women’s toilets. Ann Merchant Boesgaard – who spent much of her research career studying the stars from telescopes on Hawaii after completing her PhD in 1966 – had to campaign for this basic amenity to be installed, as well as women’s dormitories for when they had to do overnight data collection.
Now an award-winning astronomer at the University of Hawaii, Boesgaard is one of 37 women who have shared their research journey in The Sky Is For Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words."
Read more at
https://physicsworld.com/a/journey-to-the-stars-the-personal-stories-of-women-in-astronomy/
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