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De: Jeremy Bailin <jbailin en ua.edu>
Date: vie, 22 abr. 2022 11:33
Subject: [AASWomen] AASWomen for April 22, 2022
To: aaswlist en lists.aas.org <aaswlist en lists.aas.org>

Issue of April 22, 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.]

This week's issues:
1. Crosspost: Risa Wechsler named 2022 Physical and Biological Sciences
Distinguished Graduate Student Alumna
2. Infusing IDEA Culture throughout Astronomy
3. The challenge of gender bias: experiences of women pursuing careers in
STEM
4. Interview with Bimla Buti on plasma physics and shrinking the gender gap
5. Women in Astronomy: Dr. Ann-Marie Madigan
6. Today in STEM History: Women's World Fair
7. Advancing IDEA in Planetary Science
8. To advance equality for women, use the evidence
9. Pinning Down the Jellyfish: The Workplace Experiences of Women of Color
in Tech
10. The Early Women Programmers Who Brought ENIAC to Life
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

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

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1. Crosspost: Risa Wechsler named 2022 Physical and Biological Sciences
Distinguished Graduate Student Alumna
>From Bryne Hadnott via http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/
By: Haneen Zain for UC Santa Cruz

Risa Wechsler (Ph.D. Physics’ 01) has always been interested in the biggest
questions of the universe:

How did the universe form? What is it made of? How did it evolve over the
last 13.8 billion years? How did structure form in the universe?

Those questions stayed with Wechsler throughout her academic career as she
pursued an S.B. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) and a Ph.D. in physics at UC Santa Cruz. She has since played an
instrumental role in groundbreaking research in the cosmology field, with
pioneering galaxy structure and cosmic structure surveys and more than 300
widely cited publications. Wechsler has also taken strides in ensuring the
growth of diversity and inclusion within the physics and astronomy
community.

Read more at

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/04/crosspost-risa-wechsler-named-2022.html

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2. Infusing IDEA Culture throughout Astronomy
>From Bryne Hadnott via http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/
By: Joan Schmelz

Ideally, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility (IDEA) should be part
of the way we do business. Everyone should be aware of the issues that
hinder the progress of underrepresented groups, and we should all be
working to mitigate them. In practice, however, IDEA problems and
strategies are often relegated to a committee that is expected to do the
hard work and make positive change.

Although we have made progress with this model, imagine the differences
that might be achievable if we could infuse IDEA culture throughout our
organizations/businesses/universities/communities.

Read more at

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2022/04/infusing-idea-culture-throughout.html

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3. The challenge of gender bias: experiences of women pursuing careers in
STEM
From: Heather Flewelling [flewelling.heather_at_gmail.com]

By Nayeli Stopani Barrios, Jessica Becker, Elise Murphy and Larissa Sanches

Women pursuing STEM careers have faced many challenges in the past, and
they continue to do so today. In the past, many of these challenges were
built into the framework of our public and private institutions and our
legal system. Women, for example, were not allowed to attend college and
earn a college education until 1840, when Catherine Brewer was the first
woman to earn a bachelor’s degree. Gaining a graduate degree wasn’t
possible until 1849, when Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree
(U.S. News, 2009).  Without access to higher education, women had no chance
of gaining enough experience and expertise to secure a job of any
significance, let alone a career in STEM.

Read more at

https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/blogs/2022/the-challenge-of-gender-bias-in-pursuing-stem-careers

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4. Interview with Bimla Buti on plasma physics and shrinking the gender gap
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]

By Toni Feder

"Bimla Buti’s mentors were her father, Bodh Raj, and Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar. In India when she was growing up, her father encouraged her
to pursue her interest in math and science, and in the US, Chandrasekhar,
her PhD adviser—who later was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in
Physics—became a lifelong guide.

After she earned her PhD in 1962 at the University of Chicago, Buti’s
academic career took her back and forth between India and the US. She also
had a long association with the Abdus Salam International Centre for
Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, including nearly two decades
as director of plasma physics there.

After Buti retired from research, in 2003, she started the Buti Foundation.
“I wanted to give something back to society,” she says. The foundation
promotes education, advancement of knowledge, and computer literacy and
strives to help the public connect with science. “I am putting more and
more effort into reducing the gender gap in STEM,” she says. “That is my
big priority now.”"

Read the interview at

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.20220415a/full/

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5. Women in Astronomy: Dr. Ann-Marie Madigan
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]

By Sabina Sagynbayeva

"From large to small, from galaxies to planetesimals – Professor Ann-Marie
Madigan is interested in it all. Dr. Ann-Marie Madigan is an Assistant
Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her group
is primarily interested in dynamics of all kinds of objects. “There are
three areas right now that my group is focused on. At the largest scale,
we’re trying to understand the motions of dark matter in disk galaxies. […]
The second scale, going a little bit smaller, is looking at stars that
orbit supermassive black holes. […] And then at the smallest scale is […]
what happens to the small bodies in planetary systems: the planetesimals,
asteroids, comets, everything that’s too small to be a planet.”"

Read more at

https://astrobites.org/2022/04/18/women-in-astronomy-dr-ann-marie-madigan/

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6. Today in STEM History: Women's World Fair
From: Sethanne Howard [sethanneh_at_msn.com]

By Maryland Science Center

"Today in STEM History: In 1925, the first Women’s World’s Fair opened in
Chicago. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the
progress of ideas, work, and products of 20th century women."

See more at

https://www.facebook.com/MarylandScienceCenter/photos/a.121953196626/10157969223271627/

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7. Advancing IDEA in Planetary Science
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellner_at_albion.edu]

"Advancing IDEA in Planetary Science" will take place from April 25-29.
This virtual conference has the goal of ensuring “that the planetary
science community can take giant leaps in advancing IDEA principles in the
workforce over the next decade.” The conference is free and registration is
open. Whether a planetary scientist or not, the talks and workshops are
sure to be engaging, informative, and inspiring.

To register, go to

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/advancingidea2022/registration/

See the program at

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/advancingidea2022/pdf/advancingidea2022_program.htm

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8. To advance equality for women, use the evidence
From: Nicolle Zellner [nzellenr_at_albion.edu]

Michelle Ryan, the inaugural director of the Global Institute of Women’s
Leadership at the Australian National University in Canberra, thinks a lot
about what it takes to achieve gender equity in the workplace. She's found
that many institutions don't base their policy on established research and
instead make three common missteps that continue to disadvantage women as
they progress through their careers.

Read about those missteps and how to correct them at

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01045-y

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9. Pinning Down the Jellyfish: The Workplace Experiences of Women of Color
in Tech
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]

By WorkLife Law

"Our report challenges the narrative that the underrepresentation of women
of color in tech is only due to the leaky STEM pipeline.  Our new
quantitative study shows that bias within the workplace plays a significant
role.

Women of color were dramatically more likely than white women to report
bias in hiring, assignments, promotions and compensation, performance
evaluations, and access to sponsorship networks. Women of color’s
experiences of bias were associated with being 37.6 percentage points less
likely than white women to report that they could see a long-term future
for themselves at the organization and 16.4 percentage points more likely
to report that they have left or considered leaving a company because of
its culture.

While the experiences of women of color in tech tended to cluster close
together, and apart from white women, our report highlights how womens’
workplace experiences vary based on race, ethnicity, gender identity,
sexual orientation & first-generation status."

Read more at

https://worklifelaw.org/news/new-report-pinning-down-the-jellyfish-the-workplace-experiences-of-women-of-color-in-tech/

Read the full report at

https://worklifelaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Pinning-Down-the-Jellyfish-The-Workplace-Experiences-of-Women-of-Color-in-Tech.pdf

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10. The Early Women Programmers Who Brought ENIAC to Life
From: Jeremy Bailin [jbailin_at_ua.edu]

By Stephen Cass

"The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer—better known as
ENIAC—became the world’s first programmable general-purpose electronic
computer when it was completed in 1945. ENIAC’s hardware was designed by
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, but the programs it ran were largely
the creation of a team of six women. For decades, these women were largely
unknown, except only as unidentified figures in photographs of ENIAC. But
as an undergraduate, Kathy Kleiman—who would later help found ICANN
(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)—started looking into
who they were. This weekend at the Vintage Computer Festival East in Wall,
N.J., Kleiman will be screening her short documentary The Computers, about
the programmers. In advance of her talk, IEEE Spectrum spoke to Kleiman
about the ENIAC women and her fascination with them."

Read the interview at

https://spectrum.ieee.org/eniac-woman-programmers

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11. Job Opportunities

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

 - Senior Software Engineer, STScI, Baltimore, MD
https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/JobBoard/93330e50-7b3a-4ba8-94f2-6f32360aa4e1/OpportunityDetail

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