This week's crosspost is from Jörg Matthias Determann, who teaches history at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. He is the author of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy: A Modern History (Springer, 2023).
Within days of Donald Trump’s inauguration as 47th President of the United States in January 2025, a federal webpage of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory changed history. A section of Rubin’s biography entitled “She advocated for women in science” suddenly disappeared and then reappeared in a stripped-down form. The altered text sought to downplay, if not hide, that Rubin was an activist as well as scientist. Also gone was the observatory’s page on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
Read more of Preserving the History of Women's Activism in Science: https://cshps.ca/wp-content/
This article was first published in Communiqué, Issue #107. 2024 – 2025.
Read Jörg Matthias Determann's career profile interview from 2024 with the CSWA and an interview with the CSWA about his book, "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astroomy: A Modern History.
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| Vera Rubin (second to left) among fellow scientists Anne Kinney, Nancy Grace Roman and Kerri Cahoy at the conference Women in Astronomy and Space Science 2009: Meeting the Challenges of an Increasingly Diverse Workforce in College Park, Maryland (courtesy of Meg Urry.) |
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