AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of March 11, 2011
eds. Joan Schmelz, Caroline Simpson, & Michele Montgomery
This week's issues:
1. Resources for Women in Astronomy
2. Seeking Advice for Starting Women's Issues Group
3. Top 100 Women
4. We are Equals. Aren't we 007?
5. Unconscious Bias
6. Psyche-Out Sexism
7. History of Women in Astronomy
8. NOAO DECam Community Workshop
9. Conference on Understanding Interventions
10. How to Submit to AASWOMEN
11. How to Subscribe, or Unsubscribe to AASWOMEN
12. How to Access to Past Issues of AASWOMEN
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1. Resources for Women in Astronomy
From: Nancy Morrison [nancy.morrison_at_utoledo.edu]
Dear AASWomen,
The CSWA has begun compiling resources on topics of interest to
students and professional women, especially women in astronomy. Web
pages have now been published on the first two topics, the two-body
problem and work-life balance. Additional pages are planned, and a
page on the next topic, sexual harassment, is now in preparation. An
index and a list of general resources are here:
http://www.aas.org/cswa/resources.html
If you know of any web resources that should be included on any of
these topics, please send them to the CSWA Webmaster (me).
Regards,
Nancy
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2. Seeking Advice for Starting Women's Issues Group
From: Lisa Frattare [frattare_at_stsci.edu] & Cristina Oliveira
[oliveira_at_stsci.edu]
We are looking for advice on starting up a women's group (lunch,
coffee, chocolate, etc.) venue to allow people at our institution to
come together to discuss women's issues. We have over 200 career women
at our institution that range in disciplines from science,
engineering, support, to business. In addition, we have a rolling
number of postdocs, grad students, undergraduate and occasionally high
school interns. Women in science groups have started up in the past,
but end up dissolving, or being exclusive. Our main concern is to have
a place where we can discuss issues prevalent to women, and where
friendships or professional relationships can grow. I am curious to
know what has worked at other institutions. What do you call
yourselves, what is the venue for meeting, how frequent are the
meetings, are the meetings structured, do you rotate
concerns/discussions or allow the main group to be a sounding board
for other smaller discussion meetings that are topic based? And most
of all, how do you create group longevity? Does it make sense to pass
the organization every semester for fresh thinking? Any advice is
helpful. Thanks!
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3. Top 100 Women
From: Rick Fienberg [rick.fienberg_at_aas.org]
An interesting article appears in the Guardian (U.K.):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/top-100-women
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is among those cited in science and medicine:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/series/top-100-women-science-medicine
Eileen Collins, who commanded the shuttle mission that launched
Chandra, is among those cited in sport and adventure:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/series/top-100-women-sport-adventure
Rick
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4. We are Equals. Aren't we 007?
From: Michele M. Montgomery [montgomery_at_physics.ucf.edu]
Narrated by Judith Dench and performed by Daniel Craig (in a dress,
blond wig, makeup, and heels, no less!), this YouTube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkp4t5NYzVM
by WeAreEquals.org points out some basic facts including women are
responsible for 2/3 of the work done worldwide yet earn only 10% of
the total income. The women in astronomy blogspot reviews some of the
video's statistics in this week's blog:
http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/
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5. Unconscious Bias
From: Meg Urry [meg.urry_at_yale.edu]
[Can a Woman be a "Great American Novelist?" is the main title of the
article by Meghan O-Rourke of Slate. "If you doubt unconscious bias
exists, you live in a man's world" is the subtitle. Thank you Meg Urry
for pointing this article to us. -- eds.]
http://www.slate.com/id/2267184?wpisrc=obinsite
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6. Psyche-Out Sexism
From: [meg.urry_at_yale.edu]
One of our grad students brought this article to my attention, the
second page of which describes some pretty interesting experimental
results in undergraduate math classes. The 4th paragraph from the end
summarizes things well.
http://www.slate.com/id/2286671/.
[Less than 1/5 professors of science and math are at top research
universities in the USA. For the 2007 NSF report, please see below.
-- eds.]
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/pdf/nsf07315.pdf
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7. History of Women in Astronomy
From: Carolina Brühl [bruhlita_at_gmail.com]
Hello my friends, on the following link I will share my conference
about the women in the history of astronomy at the International
Congress of Astronomers in Chile the last year!! I hope you share!!!
Hugs from Colombia!!
[Note, the following YouTube videos are in Spanish - eds.]
http://www.seti.cl/ciclo-charlas-astronomia-maria-carolina-bruhl/
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8. NOAO DECam Community Workshop
From: David James [djj_at_ctio.noao.edu]
Seeing the Big Picture: DECam Community Workshop,
18-19 August 2011, Tucson, Arizona, USA
The NOAO is proud to announce a two-day community workshop on the Dark
Energy Camera (DECam), a 3-sq degree array of 62 2Kx4K CCD detectors,
which is to be installed on the Cerro Tololo InterAmerican
Observatory's 4m Blanco telescope during mid-to-late 2011.
The workshop will take place on 18-19 August, 2011, at the Marriott
University Park hotel in downtown Tucson [AZ], about 10-minutes walk
from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory [NOAO] offices.
The workshop discussions will give the DECam team an overview of the
community interest in DECam, thus allowing us to optimize
commissioning, operations and data reduction. This is also a unique
opportunity for prospective users to meet and form collaborations
based upon common or complementary interests in DECam data and
capabilities. This conference will bring together researchers and
scientists from the DECam community who are interested in the DECam
and the ways in which it can be applied and used.
For further information, please contact Dr David James
, or on +56 51-205358, preferably before 01 May,
2011. Due to logistical constraints, participation is limited to 50
attendees. Women, persons with disabilities and people from
minority-rich backgrounds are especially encouraged to participate.
For more extensive information concerning the workshop, please visit
http://www.noao.edu/meetings/decam/
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9. Conference on Understanding Interventions
From: Michele M. Montgomery [montgomery_at_physics.ucf.edu
Registration is now open for the 4th Annual Conference on
Understanding Interventions. This conference was established to
facilitate dissemination and exchange of hypothesis based research on
interventions and initiatives that broaden participation in science
and engineering research careers. The conference is to be held May
26-28, 2011 at Vanderbuilt University
http://www.UnderstandingInterventions.org
Target audiences for this conference are research scholars and
graduate students interested in research, institution leaders and
faculty who develop and direct programs and initiatives, and program
directors and leaders from federal agencies, professional
associations, and foundations that build and shape the next generation
of scientists.
Abstracts are being accepted for posters (on intervention research,
effective strategies/best practices, and program evaluation design),
oral presentations on research results (15-20 minutes), and workshops
(1-2 hrs) on effective strategies and evaluation approaches. The
deadline for all abstracts and travel grants is April 1.
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12. How To Access to Past Issues of AASWOMEN
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