AASWomen for April 12, 2013

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of April 12, 2013
eds. Caroline Simpson, Michele M. Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, and Nick Murphy

This week's issues:

1. Science and Women-in-Science Colloquia

2. AIP: Strategies for Improving Diversity

3. Tips from Nature 'Women in STEM' Articles

4. CERN Offers UN Advice on Bringing Women into Science

5. AWIS: Investing in Women in STEM: Because Girls Grow Up

6. Women in Physics is the theme for Winter 2012-13 SPS Observer

7. 2014 CUWiP Sites Announced

8. IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics proceedings now available

9. Child Care Grants for the 222nd AAS Meeting in Indianapolis

10. The Dory Yochum Scholarship : MentorNet to award $5000 to an outstanding woman protege in STEM

11. Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)

12. Job Opportunities

13. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

14. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

15. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

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1. Science and Women-in-Science Colloquia

From: J. Schmelz via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

I have recently given “twofer” colloquia* -- one talk on a science topic and another on a women-in-science topic -- at CfA, Caltech, JPL, and Indiana. During these twofer visits, I have also met with students, postdocs, managers, professors, and scientists, both individually and in groups. We have talked about both science and CSWA-related issues. The visits were so successful and so rewarding that I would like to encourage all of you to consider doing these twofer colloquia (get invited to give a science talk and offer to give a women-in-science talk as well).

I would also like to advertise the possibility of these twofer colloquia to universities and organizations other than those where I happen to have friends and colleagues. I would be more than willing to give my twofer colloquia at other places, including yours!

To read more, please see:

http://www.womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2013/04/science-and-women-in-science-colloquia.html

AASWomen Newsletter for February 15, 2019

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of February 15, 2019
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, JoEllen McBride, and Ale Aloisi (guest ed.)

This week's issues:

From the Atlantic article (Bettmann/Getty)

1. Cross-post: The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes
2. Special Article Collection Celebrates Annual Reviews Contributors
3. Special edition of the Lancet: Advancing women in science, medicine and global health
4. More women and girls needed in the sciences to solve world’s biggest challenges
5. How Scientists are Fighting Against Gender Bias in Conference Speaker Lineups
6. Is This The Year Of Women In Science?
7. European Space Agency Celebrates Women in Science with Astro Pi Challenge
8. Reflections from a Nobel winner: Scientists need time to make discoveries
9. 23 Black Female Scientists Who Changed The Damn World
10. Women You Should Know
11. This neuroscientist is fighting sexual harassment in science—but her own job is in peril
12. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
14. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

Women Who Changed Modern American Science

By Nancy Morrison, from the June 2013 Issue of Status: A Report on Women in Astronomy

The Boston meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in February, 2013, included a session on the history of women in science [1]. This article summarizes the presentation by Margaret Rossiter, which was entitled “Thirty Women Who Changed American Science, 1970–2010” and was based on the third in her series of books, Women Scientists in America. It described the changes these women wrought, not by means of scientific research, but rather by means of political and legal activity. Every woman who began a career in science in the 1970’s and later owes them a great debt.

Rossiter opened by remarking, “It goes without saying that we live in historic times.” In all fields of science, both the percentages and the absolute numbers of women students and degree recipients are rising. Employment is also going up, partly as a result of epoch-making legislation passed in March and June 1972. Before that time, nonprofit organizations, universities, and governments were exempt from equal-opportunity cases; their employees had no standing to sue. The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 [2] changed this situation. At the time, it received virtually no publicity, and even avid newspaper readers were barely aware of it.

AASWomen Newsletter for March 15, 2024

Francesca Primas, Full Astronomer at ESO.
Item 4, credit: ESO

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 15, 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. Cross-post: They were astronomers
2. Call for SGMA Committee Members
3. NA-ROAD Women and Girls in Astronomy Program
4. Francesca Primas recognised for promoting gender equity
5. ASTRON Director Jessica Dempsey: 'The time when we didn't want women in science is over'
6. Dr. Patricia (Trish) Henning: Leading the Way in Radio Astronomy
7. Discover the pioneering woman scientist who mapped the moon
8. Interviews with women at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center
9. Canadian Physics Counts: An exploration of the diverse identities of physics students and professionals in Canada
10. Indigenous women find their stride in physics
11. Why retaining women in science is a major challenge
12. There is no cookie cutter female scientist
13. Hundreds of Upcoming Women Scientists Call for More Inclusivity in STEM
14. Job Opportunities
15. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
16. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
17. 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.

AASWomen Newsletter for December 7, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of December 07, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, JoEllen McBride, and Alessandra Aloisi (guest ed.)

Today's guest editor is Alessandra Aloisi. Alessandra studies stars and gas in nearby star-forming galaxies with UV/optical/NIR imaging and UV/optical spectroscopy to infer their chemical and evolutionary state. She received her PhD from Bologna University (Italy) in 1999. She then landed in the US and launched her career as postdoc at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), and as associate research scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Alessandra joined the research staff at STScI in 2003, working first for the European Space Agency (ESA) and transferring to a position with the Association of the Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in 2009. At STScI, Alessandra started as instrument scientist for the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope, and became the lead for the team responsible for the calibration, operations, and user support of these spectrographs just before the Hubble Servicing Mission 4. She then moved to be the Deputy Division Head of the Operations & Engineering Division, and is now the Head of the Science Mission Office where she oversees the science career and infrastructure of STScI as well as HST and JWST science policies.

This week's issues:

1. A Planetary Scientist in Industry
2. Nancy Grace Roman Advances Space Astronomy with Hubble Space Telescope
3. L’Oréal USA For Women In Science Fellowship Program
4. Nobody Believed Neil deGrasse Tyson's First Accuser. Now There Are Three More.
5. Perth NASA InSight mission researcher breaks new ground for women in science
6. Celebrate IAU100 Women and Girls in Astronomy Day in Your Country
7. Girls in STEM: Top STEM toys for the holidays
8. America's Top 50 Women In Tech 2018
9. Senate passes bill to recognize ‘Hidden Figures’ women
10. Lawsuit Alleging Misconduct At Dartmouth Raises Concerns About Treatment Of Women In STEM
11. What science has gotten wrong by ignoring women
12. Turns Out We Still Have a Huge TV Scientist Stereotype Problem
13. How Hollywood brought women of STEM & arts together so they are no longer ‘Hidden Figures’
14. Women have been written out of science history – time to put them back
15. Job Opportunities
16. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
17. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
18. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for February 14, 2020

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of February 14, 2020
eds: JoEllen McBride, Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and Alessandra Aloisi

Mary Somerville, from Item 2
(Image credit: FLICKR/CatherineCronin)

This week's issues:

1. Meet your CSWA, JoEllen McBride

2. The Three Marys: The women who unlocked Earth, space and life

3. Seven female scientists you may not have heard of - but should know about

4. Symposium on Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in STEMM

5. Every Day Should Be International Day Of Women And Girls In Science

6. These 10 Women Are Changing the Way We Talk About Science

7. Gendered Cheese: Don't Fall For Women In STEM Neuro-Nonsense

8. A Controversial Study Claimed To Explain Why Women Don’t Go Into Science And Tech. It Just Got A 1,113-Word Correction.

9. Green Bank Observatory Fellowships and Grants

10. Job Opportunities

11. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

13. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWOMEN Newsletter for November 07, 2014

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of November 07, 2014
eds: Daryl Haggard, Nicolle Zellner, Meredith Hughes, & Elysse Voyer

This week's issues:

1. No Women Physics Nobel Prizes in 50 Years

2. Top Five Tips for Men

3. What Keeps Women Out of Elite Colleges? Their SAT Scores

4. I'm a female engineer, and I love science. Stop calling me a geek.

5. Women Count

6. The End of Science Sexism?

7. UVA Astrophysicist Named a Women in Science Fellow

8. PC workplace boosts creativity in male-female teams

9. 2015 PhysTEC Conference Save the date!

10. Job Opportunities

11. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

13. Access to Past Issues

AASWOMEN for September 9, 2011

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of September 9, 2011
eds. Joan Schmelz, Caroline Simpson, and Michele Montgomery

This week's issues:

1. Invitation to Subscribe to the AASWOMEN Newsletter

2. Berkeley Women in Science and Engineering: Our Struggle for Equality

3. How Things Have Changed (for the Better!)

4. America Needs More Women in the Sciences

5. Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science

6. When Programming was Considered Women's Work

7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN Newsletter

8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN Newsletter

9. Access to Past Issues of the AASWOMEN Newsletter

AASWOMEN for January 13, 2012

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of January 13, 2012
eds. Joan Schmelz, Caroline Simpson, and Michele Montgomery

This week's issues:

1. 2012 George van Biesbroeck Prize

2. 'Geek' Perception of Computer Science Putting Off Girls, Expert Warns

3. Women Need More Role Models, Tech Leaders Tell CES Panel

4. Secretary Clinton Announcement at the "Celebrating Women in Science" Event

5. Boston's Women in Bio Aims to Fuel STEM Curiosity in Middle Schoolers

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

AASWomen Newsletter for February 11, 2022

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of February 11, 2022

eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Alessandra Aloisi, Jeremy Bailin and Sethanne Howard

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]

From Item 4

This week's issues:

1. Crosspost: Physics Conference Creates Positive Experience for Kassaye, Stapley

2. An Open Call for Guest Blog Posts

3. Crosspost: U.N. leaders decry gender gap in STEM fields on Int'l Day of Women and Girls in Science

4. International Day of Women and Girls in Science - Feb 11

5. Report on NASA Astrophysics Inclusion Plan Pilot now available

6. Promoting mathematics to girls in Ghana

7. Meet 10 women with great science ideas

8. Job Opportunities

9. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

10. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

11. 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.

AASWomen for March 15, 2013

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 15, 2013
eds. Caroline Simpson, Michele M. Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, and Nick Murphy

This week's issues:

1. Top 10 Ways to be a Better Advisor to Graduate Students

2. Academia [and the "endogamous" marriage habits of physicists]

3. Think About Expectations for Women in Undergraduate Science

4. National Women's History Month

5. NSF Report: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science

6. Women in Science: Women's Work

7. NSF: ‪Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge‬

8. Women in Math and Science Quiz

9. Job Opportunities

10. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

11. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for February 17, 2023

AAS Committee on the Status of Women

Issue of February 17, 2023

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. Cross-post: A woman’s place is in science

2. International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February

3. We Need More Women in Science and Leadership

4. Lazy movie stereotypes that put women off science

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 of the AASWomen Newsletter

An online version of this newsletter will be available at http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/ at 3:00 PM ET every Friday.

AASWomen Newsletter for March 9, 2018

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 9, 2018
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, and Maria Patterson

This week's issues:
 
1. How female fellows fared at the Royal Society
2. What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You
3. Title IX- A Step by Step Guide
4. The deck stacked against women in science
5. Women Who Shaped Science
6. The West is way behind Iran and Saudi Arabia when it comes to women in science
7. Job Opportunities
8. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
9. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
10. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen Newsletter for November 8, 2024

Item 7: The Tarter Award

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of November 8, 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. Nat'l Career Development Month - Part 1
2. Gender parity in African science
3. Winners announced for 2024 Inspiring Women in Science Awards
4. The Women and Girls in Astronomy Program
5. Editorial: Women in science: astronomy and space sciences
6. University of Michigan Department Earns Physics/Astronomy SEA Change Award
7. Jill Tarter to Receive Inaugural Tarter Award for Innovation in the Search for Life Beyond Earth
8. Status of Women in Astronomy: Still A Long Way To Go
9. Pioneering Female Astronomer’s Legacy Lives On
10. The Untold Story of Marie Curie’s Network of Female Scientists
11. NASA Citizen Science Program
12. FINESST: SMD’s Graduate Student Research Final Text and Due Date Released
13. Job Opportunities
14. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
15. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
16. 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.

AASWomen Newsletter for March 12, 2021

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 12, 2021

eds: Heather Flewelling, Nicolle Zellner, Maria Patterson, Alessandra Aloisi, and Jeremy Bailin

[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. Be well! --eds.]

This week's issues:

Item #6. Credit: womeninmotionmovie.com

1. Cross-post: Beyond Marie Curie: The women in science history we don't talk about

2. International Women's Day I: Profiles of women making current contributions to astronomy

3. International Women's Day II: Profiles of women who have made historical contributions to astronomy

4. Scientists want virtual meetings to stay after the COVID pandemic

5. Women in Aerospace: Stories from the Smithsonian Collection

6. From sci-fi to science: Film presentation shows how Nichelle Nichols changed the face of space

7. Physics camp has proven benefits for high school girls

8. Empowering women leads to better science, research and innovation

9. Making it Happen: Women in STEM Shorts Program at Athena Film Festival

10. Where Women Scientists Are the Majority

11. New DPS Mid-career Prize: The Claudia J. Alexander Prize

12. Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein spans the whitewashed history of astronomy in her new book, ‘The Disordered Cosmos.’

13. Data shows women making gains in STEM workforce but still underrepresented

14. Job Opportunities

15. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter

16. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter

17. 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.

AASWomen for January 25, 2013

AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy
Issue of January 25, 2013
eds. Caroline Simpson, Michele Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, and Nick Murphy

This week's issues:

1. CSWA Special Session at the AAS: Family Leave Policies

2. Reports from the Recent Conferences for Undergraduate Women in

Physics

3. Encouraging (And Keeping) Women In Physics

4. New data from AIP on Number of Women earning Physics Bachelor’s

5. Women's History Month 2013: "Celebrating Women in Science,

Technology, Engineering and Mathematics."

6. L'Oreal USA Launches For Girls In Science

7. APS/IBM Research Internships for Undergraduate Women

8. APS Meetings Child Care Grants

9. NASA Internship, Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities

10. Job Opportunities

11. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

12. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

13. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen for December 14, 2012

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of December 12, 2012
eds. Caroline Simpson, Michele Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, amp; Nick Murphy

This week's issues:

1. Planetary Graduate Program Clearinghouse

2. Salaries of Women in Science

3. Women in Astronomy Blogspot

4. Nature Takes on its Gender Trouble

5. Upcoming in STATUS

6. Why do So Many Women Leave Science?

7. "Science: It's A Girl Thing" Parody Video: Woman Neuroscientists Respond

8. How to undo stereotypes that hinder women in science

9. Women in Science: The Voice of Experience

10. Where are all the Female Geniuses?

11. The Gender/Resource Gap

12. SPS Internships for Undergraduates: Applications due February 1

13. Job Opportunities

14. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

15. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

16. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWomen for June 1, 2012

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of June 1, 2012
eds. Joan Schmelz, Caroline Simpson, and Michele Montgomery

[This week's guest editor is Daryl Haggard. Daryl is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) at Northwestern University. She studies AGN and their host galaxies, accreting compact binaries, and accretion-driven outflows using multi-wavelength and time domain surveys.]

This week's issues:

1. Gender statistics for tenured astronomers: updates needed

2. Vibrant Research at a Liberal Arts College

3. Family Leave - International Comparison

4. Gender Equity Conversations Report Published by CSWP

5. Female 'Stereotype Threat' Brain Drains U.S. STEM

6. Girl Scouts: Not just cookies. We want science!

7. Top Women in Science to Follow on Twitter

8. The Women in Science Hall of Fame: Emilie du Châtelet

9. Last week to apply for the M. Hildred Blewett Fellowship

10. Second "Women in Physics" Conference in Canada

11. Women in STEM Book Reviews/Summaries

12. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter

13. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter

14. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AAS Women Newsletter for April 12, 2019

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of April 12, 2019
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

From item 2: Katie Bouman

1. Highlights from Women In Space 2019
2. Multiple stories about Katie Bouman and the first black hole image
3. Meet Maria Mitchell the First American to Discover a Comet
4. Women in Physics and Astronomy, 2019
5. Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
6. Dem senators introduce bill to combat sexual harassment in STEM
7. BethAnn McLaughlin: ‘Too many women in science have to run the gauntlet of abuse and leave’
8. Stepping up to be a role model for LGBTQ inclusion in science
9. It's So Damn Hard to Be a Mom in STEM and This New Attrition Stat Proves It
10. Paid Family Leave for Postdocs
11. Women in Engineering: A Review of the 2018 Literature
12. 10 Unusual Tips For How To Advance Women In STEM, National Academy Of Sciences
13. Barring Women From Economics
14. Multiple Factors Converge to Influence Women's Persistence in Computing: A Qualitative Analysis
15. Job opportunities
16. How to Submit to the AASWomen Newsletter
17. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWomen Newsletter
18. Access to Past Issues of the AASWomen Newsletter

AASWOMEN for March 26, 2010

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 26, 2010
eds. Joan Schmelz, Caroline Simpson amp; Michele Montgomery

This week's issues:

1. Anonymous Request for Advice

2. Summit on Gender and the Postdoctorate II

3. Women Making Gains on Faculty at Harvard

4. Inspiring Women in Science

5. Progress, but Long Way to Go for Women in Science

6. Juggling Books and Babies

7. NASA Planetary Science Summer School

8. Women of Color Awards

9. Factors that Encourage and Discourage Women and Minorities in Pursuing STEM Careers

10. How to Submit, Subscribe, or Unsubscribe to AASWOMEN

11. Access to Past Issues of AASWOMEN