Issue of March 20, 2026
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. Crosspost: Celebrating Women in the Physical Sciences
2. Highlighting Achievements and Challenges for Women in the Physical Sciences Community
3. Unbounded
4. Deaf women fought for the right to vote
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
Zoe Adams, a graduate student at the University of Maryland and 2025 intern at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives, is on a mission to ensure the contributions of women in science are never lost. Read more at
https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2026/03/crosspost-celebrating-women-in-physical.html
"Women have been vital to the physical sciences from the very beginning. Contrary to modern stereotypes, before the 1850s, physics was considered a “girls” subject . Since then, the work of luminaries such as Marie Curie, Lisa Meitner, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Chien-Shiung Wu, and countless other women set foundational knowledge that continues to drive our understanding of the universe and advance collective scholarship."
Read more at
https://www.aip.org/womens-history-month
By Julia Ravanis
"When my teacher in a mechanics class introduced ‘the most beautiful rule of physics’, I was immediately intrigued. This rule seemed to promise that there was a world beyond the temporal decay and spatial confinement of everyday life."
Read more at https://aeon.co/essays/she-freed-physics-but-emmy-noether-couldnt-escape-herself
By Joan Marie Naturale
"Annie Jump Cannon was a pioneering astronomer. Born in 1863, she experienced progressive hearing loss starting at a young age. One of the first women from Delaware to attend college, she was her class valedictorian when she graduated from Wellesley College, where she excelled in the sciences and mathematics."
View 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
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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