Issue of September 13, 2024
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. Assessing the Demographics of Participants in AAS Press Conferences
2. Researchers with a large network of unique collaborators have longer careers, finds study
3. Discrimination or a Competitive Climate? Why Women Cannot Translate Their Better High School Grades into University Grades
4. Job Opportunities
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.
In support of the CSWA’s Strategic Plan for the 2020s, a survey to assess the participation of community members at official AAS press conferences was conducted. In Assessing the Demographics of Participants in Press Conferences at Meetings of the American Astronomical Society (2010-2022), Grace Bagdon, Nicolle Zellner, Patricia Knezek, and the AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (CSWA) examined the demographics of who is invited to participate in press conferences and reported on the participants’ perceptions of the influence that participating in even just one AAS press conference has on one’s career and forward trajectory.
Read more at
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2024/09/assessing-demographics-of-participants.html
The study was carried out by a team led by Mingrong She, a data analyst at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. It examined the article history of more than 23 000 researchers who had published at least three papers in American Physical Society (APS) journals.
In terms of gender, the study finds that women have more interconnected networks and a higher average number of co-authors than men. Female physicists are also more likely to publish repeatedly with the same co-authors, with women therefore being less likely than men to become principal investigators. Male scientists also have longer overall careers and stay in science longer after achieving principal investigator status than women, the study finds.
Read more at
Read the study at
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02482
While girls have better grades than boys in high school, this does not translate into better performance of young women, as compared to young men, in university. Due to the high signalling value of university grades for subsequent income and employment outcomes, this has important consequences for gender inequalities at labour market entry. However, previous studies have not yet examined the potential barriers that might limit women’s ability to maintain their previous academic achievement at the university level. Drawing on the nation-wide Student Survey, this study addresses this shortcoming by investigating perceived discrimination against women and perceived competition among students as two potential correlates. Our findings first confirm that while girls have better grades in high school than boys, this has reversed at the university level. Further, high school grades are less strongly correlated with university grades for girls compared to boys. Our results highlight that young women perceive there to be more discrimination against women as well as higher levels of competition within their field of study, than do their male peers. The study further demonstrates that an increased level of perceived discrimination is strongly associated with lower university performance for young women, thereby plausibly hindering their ability to reach their full academic potential.
Read more at
and
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11162-024-09815-5
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
- 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship.
http://51pegasib.org/
- Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Williams College
https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/fd4ce182
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