Issue of September 5, 2025
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Ferah Munshi, Stella Kafka, and Ben Keller
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Margaret Rossiter's Life and Work Brought Women Scientists to Light
2. Know a Trailblazing Woman Scientist? Nominate Her for Our ‘Cutting-Edge Women in Science’ List
3. The Two-Body Problem for Women in Science
4. Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History
5. Job Opportunities
6. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
7. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
8. 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.
By Kimberly S. Mitchell
Margaret Rossiter wouldn't listen.
She once asked a group of mostly male professors and students in the history of science department at Yale if there were ever any women scientists, as they had never been discussed this at these regular monthly gatherings.
"No," they answered. "None." Someone hedged that Marie Curie might be an exception. And that was that.
Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/09/margaret-rossiters-life-and-work.html
"If you're a member of the scientific community, tell us who deserves the spotlight. Deadline: Sept. 15."
Read more at
By Shohini Ghose
"Can bends in spacetime accommodate a career in physics and a family?"
Read more at https://nautil.us/the-two-body-problem-for-women-in-science-1235803/
By Penelope Green
"Margaret W. Rossiter, a historian whose trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” documented in sharp detail the ways women were excised from the annals of science — and who coined the term “the Matilda effect,” named for the 19th-century suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage, to describe the age-old practice of attributing scientific achievements of women to their male colleagues — died on Aug. 3 in Salem, Mass. She was 81."
Read more at
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/science/margaret-w-rossiter-dead.html
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
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
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