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AASWomen for November 9, 2012

AAS Committee on the Status of Women
Issue of November 9, 2012
eds. Caroline Simpson, Michele M. Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, amp; Nick Murphy

This week's issues:

1. Expanding Your Horizons

2. Scientific Computing Versus Computer Science

3. Last Week to Register for the 2013 APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics

4. How to Repair the Gender Pay Gap? Teach Negotiation Skills in College

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

1. Expanding Your Horizons
From: Lauren Tompkins via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

Last February, as my first winter as a University of Chicago postdoc wore on, I became restless with my everyday routine. I was doing interesting work on an electronics upgrade to the Atlas Experiment at the LHC, but felt disconnected from life outside of the Ivory Tower. I thought that doing some outreach, particularly in a city as large and diverse as Chicago, would restore that connection for me. As was mentioned in a previous post, finding an existing program is a good way to get started in outreach, so I set out to find a program that I was sure would exist in Chicago, Expanding Your Horizons (EYH).

EYH is an international organization of over 70 one-day conferences for middle school girls. At the conferences, women from the local STEM community do hands-on workshops with the girls, showing them that STEM careers are fun and accessible, hoping to empower them to take their place in the science and technology world. Jessica and I participated in EYH several times through UC Berkeleys Society of Women in the Physical Sciences. Our perennial workshop was build-your-own radio. Our group spent less than $500 on simple crystal radio kits which we helped the 45 girls construct during the workshop. Watching their faces light up when they first heard a transmission on a radio they constructed by hand was a treat. EYH seemed like a perfect way to get involved in outreach.

To read more, please see

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2012/11/guest-post-lauren-tompkins-on-expanding.html

2. Scientific Computing Versus Computer Science
From: Hannah Jang-Condell via womeninastronomy.blogspot.com

I recently attended a local meeting on women in computer science, at the invitation of someone I met at a different meeting on high performance computing. Not that I consider myself a computer scientist, rather I'm more of a scientific computationalist, with the major focus of my research involving high performance computing.

Still, it's an interesting contrast. While the percentage of women in physics and astronomy has generally grown over the last three decades, the percentage of women in computer science reached a peak around 1982, and has decreased ever since.

To read more, please see

http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2012/11/scientific-computing-versus-computer.html

3. Last Week to Register for the 2013 APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics
From: WIPHYS

The APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) are three-day regional conferences for undergraduate physics majors. The 2013 conferences will run Friday evening, January 18 through Sunday afternoon, January 20, 2013. For 2013, there will be six regional conferences; students are encouraged to apply to the nearest conference. Students must apply by November 15, 2012 for consideration. Visit this site for more info:

http://www.aps.org/programs/women/workshops/cuwip.cfm

4. How to Repair the Gender Pay Gap? Teach Negotiation Skills in College
From: Nancy Morrison [nmorris_at_utnet.utoledo.edu]

Rachel Simmons and Jessica Bacal wrote:

Last Wednesday, the American Association of University Women reported that women in their first year out of college are paid 82 cents for every dollar paid to their male peers -- creating a heavier college debt burden and lifelong wage gap at a time when women are increasingly the primary breadwinners of their households.

The cause of that gap? Most experts would say old-fashioned discrimination, or perhaps young women's tendency to major in "soft" subjects like English or Art History. But we think there's something they're missing: a psychological glass ceiling -- the barrier created by a thick layer of internalized cultural messages -- that causes women to hold themselves back.

To read more, please see

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-simmons/wage-gap_b_2084150.html?utm_hp_ref=women&ir=Women&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008

5. Job Opportunities

* Assistant or Associate Professor, Experimental Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Chicago

To be considered for this position as an Assistant Professor, apply here: http://academiccareers.uchicago.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=52585

To be considered for this position as an Associate Professor, apply here: http://academiccareers.uchicago.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=52586

For those interested in increasing excellence and diversity in their organizations, a list of resources and advice is here:

http://www.aas.org/cswa/diversity.html#howtoincrease

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8. Access to Past Issues

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Each annual summary includes an index of topics covered.

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