Issue of October 13, 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. Nüzhet Gökdoğan, Turkey's first woman astronomer
2. Jay M. Pasachoff Solar Eclipse Mini-Grants Program Invites Proposals
3. The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Open Science Recognition Challenge
4. Gender pay gap research wins economics Nobel
5. Why do so few women take on scientific careers?
6. Who Was Anna Mani, and How Was She a Pioneer for Women in STEM?
7. Job Opportunities
8. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
10. Access to Past Issues
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On August 14, 2023, Google honored astronomer Nüzhet Gökdoğan with a Google Doodle. Gökdoğan was born in 1910 in İstanbul, Türkiye, and received an undergraduate degree at Lyons and a graduate degree in physics at the University of Paris before returning to join the faculty at İstanbul University in 1934. Her Ph.D. dissertation at İstanbul University was the very first doctoral thesis in the Faculty of Science. She was the founding president of the Turkish Astronomy Society, Chair of the Astronomy Department from 1958-1980, and served as first female dean of the university's Faculty of Science. Her work included stellar and solar abundances, and the history of astronomy in Turkey.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2023/10/nuzhet-gokdogan-turkeys-first-woman.html
Thanks to a recent NSF award, the AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force is offering mini-grants to fund programs, activities, and events that will engage the public with the 8 April 2024 solar eclipse across North America. Priority will be given to programs specifically designed to engage meaningfully in eclipse education, outreach, and science activities with under-represented groups (including women/girls, ethnic minorities, and people with physical and/or mental disabilities) who often don't imagine themselves in science careers or who believe that science is “not for them.”
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in collaboration with federal agencies participating in a Year of Open Science, invite researchers, community scientists, educators, innovators, and members of the broader public to share stories of how they’ve advanced equitable open science. To do this, the OSTP recognition challenge seeks to spotlight the stories and teams behind projects that have addressed a particular challenge or advanced a solution, while embodying open science principles and practices. These stories can underscore the potential for open science to scale the benefits of discovery and innovation across every sector of our society. Projects should either be supported by federal grant awards (whether currently or previously) or make use of openly available federally funded resources, including publications, datasets, and software. By highlighting the transformative impact of open science on society, these stories can inspire others to contribute to this movement as the U.S. Government continues into a future for open science and research.
For more information, please see:
https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=ostp-year-of-open-science-recognition-challenge
By Cathleen O'Grady
Claudia Goldin honored for studies into women’s participation in the labor market over the past 200 years
An economic historian who identified the driving forces behind women’s unequal participation in the workforce has won this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Starting in the 1980s, Claudia Goldin, from Harvard University, has published an influential body of work drawing on historical and economic data to figure out how women’s employment situation has changed over time—and why gender gaps still exist.
Read more at
https://www.science.org/content/article/gender-pay-gap-research-wins-economics-nobel
By Clotilde Policar and Charlotte Jacquemot
There were around 8 billion human beings in 2022, 50% of them women. Although there are as many women as men, the former continue to be underrepresented in science.
The list of Nobel Prize laureates is a case in point: out of 956 winners, only 60 (6%) are women. Could the differences between men and women justify such a disparity?
Read more at
https://theconversation.com/why-do-so-few-women-take-on-scientific-careers-214050
By Allison Futterman
Physicist and meteorologist Anna Mani "serves as an inspiration for girls and women in STEM: She defied traditional Indian gender norms by pursuing education and a career and choosing not to marry, and viewed men and women as intellectual equals. Mani said, “My being a woman had absolutely no bearing on what I chose to do with my life.” "
Read more at
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#howtoincrease
- Tenure Track Assistant Professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA
https://cas.gsu.edu/about/employment/#natural-and-computation-sciences
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