Astronomy
Greetings from Sweden, home of the most generous parental leave policies in the world!
I'm here attending a scientific conference this week. As I've been going to talks and interacting with people, I couldn't help but notice something interesting about the representation of women here, so I worked out the numbers during an idle moment. Here's what I found:
Women accounted for
I'm willing to forgive them that last number. All in all, this makes me pretty proud to be part of this meeting. Of course, as I mentioned before, some subfields of astronomy do better than others are retaining women, and I happen to be in one of them. There really does seem to be something of a critical mass that's required before women begin to really feel welcome in a particular field of study.
As a side note, I had an interesting conversation about problems facing in astronomy with someone here, and he wasn't a woman, and I didn't bring it up.
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Astronomy
Maybe There Is Hope After All
Greetings from Sweden, home of the most generous parental leave policies in the world!
I'm here attending a scientific conference this week. As I've been going to talks and interacting with people, I couldn't help but notice something interesting about the representation of women here, so I worked out the numbers during an idle moment. Here's what I found:
Women accounted for
| 42 of 126 participants | 33% | (probably an underestimate, since it's based solely on names) |
| 7 of 20 contributed talks | 35% | |
| 7 of 15 invited talks | 47% | (actually one less, because one had to cancel at the last minute) |
| 14 of 35 speakers total | 40% | |
| 2 of 13 session chairs | 15% |
I'm willing to forgive them that last number. All in all, this makes me pretty proud to be part of this meeting. Of course, as I mentioned before, some subfields of astronomy do better than others are retaining women, and I happen to be in one of them. There really does seem to be something of a critical mass that's required before women begin to really feel welcome in a particular field of study.
As a side note, I had an interesting conversation about problems facing in astronomy with someone here, and he wasn't a woman, and I didn't bring it up.
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Today's guest post is by Brooke Simmons, an astronomy postdoc at Oxford and the Henry Skynner Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College. Brooke researches the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies and is actively involved in citizen science within...
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Cross-posted from University of Washington Astronomy PhD Candidate Jim Davenport's blog: Today I'm proud to announce that my AAS 223 Hack Day project is finally finished! Our "paper" (really an informal report) on the study of gender in AAS talks...
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