AASWOMEN Newsletter for July 31, 2015

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of July 31, 2015

eds: Daryl Haggard, Nicolle Zellner, Meredith Hughes, & Elysse Voyer

This week's issues:

1. Career Panel Discussion

2. Online Harassment: The Dangers and Damages 

3. Men Totally Overestimate Their Math Skills And It May Explain The STEM Gender Gap 

4. LEGO Adds More Women in Science to Its Lineup  

5. There is crying in science. That’s okay.

6. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

7. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

8. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Crying at Work

Time Magazine recently published an article about the benefits of crying at work.  This article resonated with me because I have cried several times in professional situations.  I cried in my thesis adviser's office when a project I had been working on for many years seemed to have failed.  I cried in my undergraduate adviser's office as I struggled to write my honors thesis and felt the deadline looming.  Most recently, I cried at work when a coworker asked about the loss of my relationship, and I was unable to stifle my emotions about it.