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For Women's History Month, we are sharing words of wisdom and encouragement from a variety of women in STEM. We've compiled the advice of several AWIS members in one "Wall of WISdom" — on saying no, speaking up, asking questions, and more.
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The film Woman in Motion depicts the career of Nichelle Nichols, famous for her role in Star Trek, and her efforts to recruit diverse astronaut candidates. We invite you to watch the documentary between April 7-10, then join us for a panel discussion on April 19 for a behind-the-scenes look into the current culture at NASA.
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MSNBC
She's a globally renowned scientist and Covid-19 vaccine developer, yet Kizzmekia S. Corbett, Ph.D., modestly describes herself as a "little ole girl" from a small North Carolina town. Growing up, she saw firsthand the health challenges and disparities that proliferated in the Black community.
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Harvard Business School
Women are more likely to invent medical treatments for endometriosis, cervical cancer, and other female conditions, but the dearth of women scientists limits the potential for such life-saving innovations. Female research teams are 35% more likely than male teams to develop medical treatments that primarily benefit women, yet an examination of biomedical patents filed over a 30-year period revealed a significant shortage of inventions targeting women's health.
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Smithsoinian Magazine
A favorite among patrons who visit the Smithsonian is a small childhood telescope that belonged to Sally Ride. Those early years spent gazing up at the stars inspired Ride to become a physicist, an astronaut and, in 1983 aboard the space shuttle Challenger, the first American woman in space. "I never went into the astronaut corps to become a role model," said Ride, who died in 2012. "But after my first flight, I began to understand the importance. You can't be what you can't see."
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.WOMEN in CLIMATE
The 19th News
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change convened to finalize the second installment of its most recent report, which covers climate impacts, adaptations and vulnerabilities. The virtual gathering includes the largest number of women authors to date, according to survey results published in the journal Nature in February. The increase in women IPCC authors is a promising sign that recent efforts to bring gender parity to one of the foremost authorities on climate change are working.
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Inside Climate News
Black, Brown and Indigenous people have been systematically excluded from earth sciences, magnifying their exposure to the most severe impacts of climate change, said Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, lead author of a recent commentary in the journal Nature Geosciences. That adds to the burden of global warming that people of color already bear more heavily than other populations because the world for centuries has been "geographically delineated based on racism, and resultant slavery and colonialism," Berhe said.
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.BLACK REPRESENTATION
Nature
In 2020, the spotlight on issues of social justice renewed conversations about equity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. In particular, the systemic lack of representation of Black scientists across all of these disciplines was highlighted and discussed.
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National Academies
Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s and 1960s, Shirley Malcom lived in a segregated community. But when she went off to the University of Washington to study zoology, she found she was usually the only Black woman in her science classes, according to a reflection Malcom penned in Science. Unfortunately, these early experiences Malcom faced were not unique, as she went on to document in the landmark 1976 report The Double Bind: The Price of Being a Minority Woman in Science.
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Dr. Kathleen Canul will be the first-ever ACS Publications ombudsperson. This new role, created as part of ACS Publications’ commitments to addressing systemic racism in chemistry journals, is an independent, impartial, off-the-record, and confidential channel for concerns regarding the peer-review process.
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Yes! Magazine
Black women have long been fixtures in science fiction film and television. In the 20th century, they largely appeared in background roles as maids, cooks, sex workers or dancers. Then, the 21st century ushered in high-profile roles like Halle Berry’s Storm, Danai Gurira’s Michonne and so many more. Most recently, Marvel's Black Panther featured numerous roles for powerful Black women characters and was wildly successful, making a billion dollars in 2018. However, Hollywood didn't decide on its own to portray Black women as heroes and women of power.
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Newsy
It used to be all too common for Black men and women to work in careers surrounded by people who didn't look like them. In 1965 — four days before the Apollo 11 mission to the moon — fewer than 1% of NASA employees were Black. The effort, research and training it takes to execute a liftoff is by no means a one-person job. The work of several people helps a rocket blast into space.
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National Air and Space Museum
NASA has announced its intent to send the first woman and the first person of color to the Moon during the Artemis program. That may happen on the Artemis II or Artemis III mission within the next few years, if the uncrewed Artemis I flight occurs in 2022 as currently planned. One likely candidate is Stephanie Diana Wilson, NASA's most senior, most flown-in-space African American female astronaut. Selected to become an astronaut in 1996, she became the second Black woman in space, flying on three Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station and logging 42 days in orbit.
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.WOMEN in SCIENCE
Smithsonian Magazine
Pertussis, otherwise known as whooping cough, means little to most parents in the developed world today. However, it was once among the great terrors of family life. This article details a team of fearless American women overcame medical skepticism to stop this vicious infectious disease and save countless lives.
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Chemistry World
Usually when we think of women in science, we focus on the access women have had to practicing science. This is not without warrant. Women have been persistently excluded from science, and their work has been disregarded by or even credited to male scientists. With the exception of some sciences which for some period of time were regarded feminine, such as chemistry and gynaecology, it was a common belief that women should not be participating in the production of scientific knowledge.
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Times Higher Education
Addressing the gender disparity in STEM isn't just a question of striving for a fairer society. It's also fundamental to giving the scientific community the best possible chance of finding solutions to complex challenges that affect us all. If we don't encourage women scientists, or fail to give them the support, tools, funding and environments they need to flourish, we will severely limit our ability to tackle global issues such as the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.WOMEN and the PANDEMIC
Nature Medicine
The COVID-19 pandemic has struck at the very fabric of academic medicine, causing career uncertainty for many, with a disproportionate impact on underrepresented minorities, LGBT+ scientists, people with disabilities, and those from myriad non-traditional backgrounds. The challenges of the pandemic have been amplified for women, especially due to the additional burden of home caregiver responsibilities. Many women are at risk of dropping out of academic research altogether, unless urgent action is taken.
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Inside Higher Ed
A new study of COVID-19–era publication patterns by gender contradicts earlier research on the topic, suggesting that women haven't published less than they did prior to the pandemic, over all. What the study calls gender inequality has grown in some fields during this period of increased caregiving demands and quarantine, however — in psychology, math and philosophy, specifically.
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.GIRLS in STEM
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Kayla Dio Robinson has been fascinated by space for as long as she can remember. She received her first telescope from her father when she was ten. In the years since, her teachers and professors helped turn that fascination into a budding career.
Robinson is now a mission telemetry engineer at Kennedy Space Center, working with NASA and its customers to ensure successful communications during missions. While she credits many mentors for help on her journey, Robinson became an engineer under the dual pressures of being a Black woman in a mostly white, male space.
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