AASWomen Newsletter for March 29, 2019

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 29, 2019
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Cristina Thomas, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

1. Repost: Facing the Future: The CSWA seeks your input on our community needs in the 2020s!

2. NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk Over Spacesuit Sizes

3. Antonia Maury: A Female Astronomer's Fight For Recognition

4. Katie Couric: How We Can Eliminate Bias Against Women in Science

5. First scientist in human history- En Hedu'anna

6. What is gender equality in science? Common solutions may not be solving the problem

7. Announcing the first Communicating Science Conference (ComSciCon) with AAS!

8. Why we still struggle with work-home conflict in women and men

9. High school girls challenge toxic masculinity

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

Repost: Facing the Future: The CSWA seeks your input on our community needs in the 2020s!

Editor's Note: We are reposting this announcement as we get closer to the April 23 survey deadline. The CSWA is interested to hear from our community what activities should be prioritized as we move into the 2020s. Please respond and remember to share the survey with your colleagues.

The survey can be found here: https://goo.gl/forms/YEgYoTP4fKVtrSkx1

From the CSWA

During 2018 the Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy (CSWA) began an effort to gather information about what are seen by our communities as the areas of key importance beyond scientific research that the AAS, its divisions, and its relevant committees (including the CSWA itself) should focus on as we move into the 2020s.  The goal is to use this information to (1) develop one or more white papers that will be submitted to the Decadal Survey as a part of the call for papers on an activity, project, or state of the profession consideration and to (2) develop a new strategic plan for the CSWA for the 2020s.

Our strategy has been to first identify the key areas and potential activities that could be undertaken in these areas by the AAS, its divisions, or relevant committees. We have taken all the input we have received so far and created a survey based on that information.  Now we need you, the members of the communities the AAS and its divisions serve, to tell us which of the many wonderful activities and ideas that have been brought to our attention that you think will have the most impact and/or are the most important to focus on! (And tell us about anything we’ve missed!)  The survey is organized around 4 key areas: Harassment and Bullying; Creating Inclusive Environments; Professional Development, Hiring, and Retention; and Professional Ethics, and also provides an opportunity to provide additional feedback and suggestions.  The more input we have from you, the better we can plan to advocate for you and serve you!  So please take a few minutes to contribute your input – we can’t do it without you!  

The survey is completely confidential and anonymous– we are not gathering any personally identifiable information, nor are we capturing any information on who is accessing the survey. We estimate it will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete the evaluation of the activities in the four subtopics. There are additional open-ended questions and room for suggestions that are optional to address in as much or as little detail as the respondent wishes. The survey will be open until Tuesday, April 23, 2019.  It can be accessed at:

https://goo.gl/forms/YEgYoTP4fKVtrSkx1

We look forward to hearing from you! 

AASWOMEN Newsletter for March 22, 2019

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 22, 2019
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. Women in Observatory Blog

2. The Case for Disciplining Faculty Harassers

3. Who invented the dishwasher, windshield wiper, caller ID? Women created these 50 inventions.

4. First person on Mars is likely to be a woman, NASA says

5. This Northern Va. student won the $250,000 prize in a top science competition

6. 7 books about women’s space history for women’s history month

7. The Woman who knows everything about the Universe

8. U.S. Mathematician Becomes First Woman To Win Abel Prize, 'Math's Nobel'

9. High-pressure research and a return to China: meet Haiyan Zheng

10. Study: U.S. gives less early-career research funding to women

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

Women in Observatory Blog

By Pascale Hibon

Image Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), C. Padilla

Although there are already one or more Women in Astronomy groups, life in observatories has different challenges, very specific to the exceptional character of the job: traveling for several days/weeks to remote places, working a night with only male colleagues/peers. The objectives of this blog are to collect, inform and support women experiencing life in Astronomical Observatories. Several women astronomers from worldwide observatories have already accepted to share their experience and different WIO profiles are published.

You can find the blog at: http://womeninobservatory.blogspot.com

If you wish to participate to this blog and/or if you want more information:
phibon_at_eso.org

AASWOMEN Newsletter for March 15, 2019

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

This week's issues:

1. Astro2020 APC NOI due March 20, Take CSWA 2020s Priorities Survey

2. Seeking applications for climate site visit teams: deadline extended

3. Astro Voices — Contribute to the IAU Centennial Video

4. 2019 NASA Planetary Science Summer Seminar Applications Open

5. I got told what to call this poem by my male colleague

6. Vanderbilt panel weighs in against tenure for #MeToo scientist

7. Meet the woman searching for planet Earth's twin

8. This International Women's Day, Do The Nobel Prizes Show Progress For Women In STEM?

9. Infertility and the Leaky Pipeline

10. 10 Women in Science and Tech Who Should Be Household Names

11. Job Opportunities

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

Astro2020 APC Notice of Intent due March 20, take CSWA Survey for 2020s Priorities

By Aparna Venkatesan

As a reminder, Astro2020: Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics has some deadlines coming up very soon! The science white papers were due March 11, and the Notice of Intent for the APC (activity, project, of state of the profession consideration) category is due March 20.

Please see the National Academy of Sciences site for Astro2020:
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/CurrentProjects/SSB_185159

The NOI form for the APC white papers is here:
https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4829893/Astro2020-NOI-form

NOIs can be targeted and brief. To the best of our knowledge, white papers will be accepted in July without a submitted NOI, but submitting an NOI will help the decadal survey committees and working groups gauge and plan for the topics and anticipated volume of submissions.

Full APC papers can be 5-10 pages long and have a tentative due date of July 1. The NAS site states that the exact format will be announced soon.

We encourage our community members to strongly consider having their voices and priorities for the next decade heard through white paper submissions, especially our junior, female and/or underrepresented minority professionals and those served by AAS diversity committees. Please do suggest actionable recommendations in the white paper(s) you submit, as this would be most useful for funding agencies and institutions.

For slides with an overview of the nature and process of the decadal survey from Dara Norman, please see here. 

And last - please take the CSWA survey on our community needs in the 2020s (https://goo.gl/forms/YEgYoTP4fKVtrSkx1). This will help the CSWA develop one or more white papers for Astro2020 and create a new strategic plan for the 2020s for CSWA.

AASWomen Newsletter for March 8, 2019

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 08, 2019
eds: Nicolle Zellner, Heather Flewelling, Maria Patterson, and JoEllen McBride

This week's issues:

From item 10: What does a scientist look like?

1. More Women are Earning Doctorates in Science, Engineering, and Health But There’s Still Work To Do
2. Understanding Dust 30 Years After CCM: (A Symposium in Honor of Geoff Clayton's 65th Birthday)
3. NIH revoked funding from 14 scientists over sexual harassment last year
4. NIH apologizes for its failure to address sexual harassment in science
5. Women are leading Australia's charge in science and space
6. Instagram and science: the Samoan Scientist slashing the 'dumb coconut' stereotype
7. Four Women Who Changed The Field Of Meteorology
8. 500 Women Scientists-Person Place Thing Series
9. Female scientists get smaller first-time grants than men
10. What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before
11. 2 astronauts are scheduled for the first all-female spacewalk in history
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