Item 4: Jane Rigby AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of May 3, 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. AAS Committee on Employment and You! Services and Recent Updates 2. Singularities Review – The Telescope is on the Ladies 3. The Poetic Lives of Lost Women of Math and Science 4. AAS Trustee Jane Rigby Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom 5. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter 6. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter 7. A ..read more

By Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin, Emily Mason, Chelsea Sharon, and Julia Kamenetzky The AAS Committee on Employment is here for you! What will you do for work once you complete your degree? How far up in the degree ladder are you interested in going? What branch of work would you want to go into? Here is a summary of what we have been up to this year to help you answer these questions and more! The AAS Committee on Employment has been quite active updating our online resources and providing training to AAS members. We are composed of fourteen passionate members, led by Julia Kamenetzky fro ..read more

UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States workshop, item 7. Credit: UN Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of April 26, 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: New study highlights what women in STEM want 2. AAS Members Elected as 2023 AAAS Fellows 3. Nominations Are Now Open for 2025 AAS Prizes 4. IAU Women in Astronomy Report 5. How can physics become more diverse? 6. Emmy Noether, Greatest Female Mathematician 7. A Simple Act o ..read more

By Cindy Barth Ellie Heo | Daily Trojan A new survey of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields finds that despite the fact that nearly 2 in 3 millennial, Gen X and Baby Boomer women working in STEM said they have seen gender equality improve during their careers, a number of long-standing challenges persist for most. Among them: unconscious bias, workplace culture, and leadership and pay gaps.  Read more at https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/profiles-strategies/2024/01/new-study-highlights-what-women-in-stem-want.html R ..read more

Ellen Stofan Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of April 19, 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. Crosspost: Women at NASA Support Human Spaceflight 2. Global Star Party 3. Making Space for Women in Astronomy 4. Advancing gender equity within STEM fields 5. The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses 6. Hackathon 3 7. Women end up doing the academic housework 8. Survey on financial scarcity and poverty 9. ‘Shrugging off failur ..read more

By Nicolle Zellner On April 12, the United Nations celebrated the International Day of Human Spaceflight in honor of Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet citizen. who conducted the first human space flight. This historic event opened the way for space exploration for the benefit of all humanity. NASA has been the leader of human spaceflight in the United States, and women at all of the NASA centers and facilities have worked - for decades - to support those efforts. Here are just a few of them. Teresa Kinney, NASA's first female chief engineer at the agency's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), is one of the ..read more

Item 2: Annie Maunder AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of April 12, 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. Career Profile: Jörg Matthias Determann Records Modern Science History 2. The Victorian Woman Who Chased Eclipses 3. Women end up doing the academic housework 4. Job Opportunities 5. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter 6. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter 7. Access to Past Issues An online version of this newslet ..read more

The AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy has compiled dozens of interviews highlighting the diversity of career trajectories available to astronomers, planetary scientists, etc. The interviews share advice and lessons learned from individuals on those paths. Below is our interview with Jörg Matthias Determann, a professor and historian of science in the Department of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. He holds a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and two master’s degrees from the University ..read more

AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of April 5, 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. Sexism in academia wastes public funding and is bad for science  2. Women Eclipse Chasers 3. Meet 5 women pushing the boundaries through NOAA’s work in space 4. Meet the Two Women Leading Space Station Science  5. We asked over 50 women space leaders for words of inspiration. Here's what they told us  6. The State of Girls in STEM: A Conversa ..read more

By Nicolle Zellner In their article for Nature Reviews Materials, Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding, Nicole Boivin, Susanne Täuber, Ulrike Beisiegel, Ursula Keller, and Janet Hering write that higher education and research institutions "are critical to the well-being and success of societies, meaning their financial support is strongly in the public interest. At the same time, value-for-money principles demand that such investment delivers. Unfortunately, these principles are currently violated by one of the biggest sources of public funding ineffic ..read more