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When the pandemic shook up her routine, Jazmine Alexander, a PhD candidate at Florida A&M University, discovered her passion for environmental justice. Find out how she teamed up with Atlanta-based rap group EARTHGANG to make an impact in her community.
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AWIS
Whether your organization is already heavily invested in gender equity or aspires to improve diversity, partnering with AWIS benefits you and your employees. Become an AWIS partner and give your employees full access to our community and resources, including programming on a variety of gender equity and career development topics.
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AWIS
AWIS has recognized nine of our chapters as ‘Shooting Stars’ for their resiliency, digital engagement, innovative outreach, vision and unique initiatives during 2021. These chapters include Sacramento Valley, DC, Houston, San Diego, Georgia, Notre Dame, Chicago, Palo Alt, and Philadelphia. An additional 12 chapters have been given the AWIS ‘Star Chapter’ Award for outstanding participation in working to achieve the AWIS mission over the last year.
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.HOT HEADLINES
NBC News
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins joined a small yet groundbreaking list when she became the fifth Black woman to go to space and the first Black woman to serve aboard the International Space Station. Watkins’ mission has drawn praise from diversity and inclusion experts, but it shows just how far Black women still have to go in the white, male-dominated profession.
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Phys.org
Trust in science is rising worldwide, according to a 3M-backed survey, and more people expect it to solve the world's problems. But the fifth annual 3M State of Science Index also showed many are worried that misinformation could lead to more public health crises, greater societal divisions and lack of action on climate change.
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Scientific American
Female birds sing. That is one conclusion of our 2020 study on one of the most abundant, widespread, well-studied bird species in the world: the barn swallow. Despite the well over 1,000 scientific publications about this species, female barn swallow song had never previously been the focus of a research article.
Why does it matter that female song has been ignored in this bird that breeds across most of North America? It highlights a long-standing scientific bias and helps us think about why that bias persists.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Seeing Earth from space is a privilege afforded only to a select few highly trained individuals — the rest of us have to settle for photos and videos. Now, those views can also be incorporated into quilts and other crafting projects thanks to a new fabric line from retired NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg.
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Scientific American
The first modern-style code ever executed on a computer was written in the 1940s by a woman named Klára Dán von Neumann — or Klári to her family and friends. And the historic program she wrote was used to develop thermonuclear weapons. In this season, we peer into a fascinating moment in the postwar U.S. through the prism of von Neumann’s work. We explore the evolution of early computers, the vital role women played in early programming, and the inextricable connection between computing and war.
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.DIVERSITY in STEM
Nature
Funding projects faster is a good goal, says Omolola Eniola-Adefeso, a biomedical engineer at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, but underlying funding inequities based on a researcher’s institution, career stage, race or research area are an even more pressing problem. The agency has struggled, for example, to reverse racial disparities in funding since Donna Ginther, an economist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, published a landmark analysis1 over a decade ago that found white researchers applying for NIH grants are much more likely than Black researchers to win them. Collins said the situation was “not acceptable” and committed the agency to action.
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It takes special effort for researchers to maintain a healthy equilibrium between their work and personal lives. This challenge can look very different, depending on where one works and what stage of career they are in. ACS Publications hosted a webinar on work-life balance in the lab, as part of the Changing the Culture of Chemistry series.
Watch on demand
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University of New Mexico
Ensuring our campuses are as diverse as the population at large has long been a goal of university leaders, especially in the STEM fields, which have historically lagged other disciplines. But while the goal is widely accepted, the pathway to success has been less clear. Realizing that many top-down guidelines to improve diversity among faculty do not motivate stakeholders to change their behavior, a new research effort led by The University of New Mexico is taking a different approach based on Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev’s managerial engagement theory: seeking the ideas and feedback from faculty first to guide strategic decisions on to broaden participation.
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Diverse Issues in Higher Education
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) will be welcoming 13 new, tenure-track faculty members who are connecting Black Studies with science, technology, engineering, and health subjects across eight divisions and schools. Three hires have already been announced, and three more offers have been made.
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Spectrum News 1
Ketanji Brown Jackson made history when the Senate voted to confirm her to the U.S. Supreme Court. For the first time ever, Black girls and women will see someone on the court that looks just like them. Brown Jackson’s achievements highlight the importance of representation regardless of career path. A biophysical chemist and N.C. A&T alumni is showing the importance of diversity in STEM careers. Data shows that in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math careers, only 7% of graduates with STEM degrees are Black.
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The Education Trust
Despite students saying that STEM courses are their favorite subject areas and that they aspire to go to college, Black and Latino students and students from low-income backgrounds continue to be excluded from crucial learning opportunities available through AP STEM courses, according to a new report from Education Trust and Equity Opportunity Schools, Shut Out: Why Black and Latino Students are Under-Enrolled in AP STEM Courses.
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Fast Company
After several stop-starts since the pandemic's onset, it seems the time has finally come for employees to call their workers back into the office. And while sentiments about this return differ vastly depending on who you ask, companies should pay special attention to those most likely to resist going back to the status quo: Black workers.
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.WOMEN'S HEALTH
STAT
Vaccines save lives, and the record time in which scientists developed Covid-19 vaccines is unprecedented. While debilitating side effects from vaccines are rare, vaccine trials and dose recommendations tend to overlook the growing evidence that immune responses differ widely in men and women, both in response to viral infections and following vaccination.
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News-Medical
In a trio of studies analyzing trends in cardiology research funding, clinical trials and leadership, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say some progress has been made in the gender gap that has long favored men, but inequalities persist and are likely linked to ongoing disparities in outcomes for women with heart disease. The findings, the investigators say, further document the long-standing underrepresentation of women in cardiology leadership roles despite the growing number of women entering medical research and practice, and they highlight what the investigators say are the risks of underrepresenting women in clinical research.
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.WOMEN in the WORKPLACE
Nature
The most recent European Commission data show that women make up about half of doctoral graduates and only about one-quarter of senior academics and people in decision-making positions. In North America and Western Europe, only 33% of those employed in research and development are women; this drops to 24% in east Asia and the Pacific area, and to 18.5% in south and west Asia. Progress could be faster if institutions that trumpet efforts to promote equity applied established research in their initiatives.
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HR Dive
Navisite's report illustrates how workplace disrespect can prevent inclusion and hamper equity: 61% respondents said they missed out on a promotion or job opportunity because of their gender. Further 45% of women surveyed said they are underpaid compared to their male colleagues, with 12% saying they're not sure whether they are paid fairly.
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Phys.org
Promotion at work has greater emotional benefit for men than women, says a new study on gender and workplace emotion. Women and men feel different at work, as moving up the ranks alleviates negative feelings such as frustration less for women than for men, says a sweeping new study on gender differences in emotion at work. The study, led by researchers at Yale University and co-authored by Jochen Menges at Cambridge Judge Business School, finds that rank is associated with greater emotional benefits for men than for women, and that women reported greater negative feelings than men across all ranks.
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ScienceDaily
When U.S. couples have their first child, mothers' earnings still drop substantially relative to fathers', and new Cornell University research demonstrates the stubborn, decades-old pattern isn't changing despite broad increases in other aspects of gender equality. The research indicates the relative drop in the earnings of mothers cuts across all education levels. The COVID-19 pandemic may lock the income imbalance in place as mothers who pulled back to care for children face worse hiring prospects and wage penalties as they seek to restart their work lives.
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MIT Sloan School of Management
A 2021 women’s leadership study from LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Co. found that American women held 41% of corporate management positions, and women continue to fight underrepresentation when it comes to board positions and CEO roles. They also face gender bias, harassment and opposition to their management styles. Here’s how one MIT alumna has pushed back on those statistics and used what she’s learned along the way to help those behind her.
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.WOMEN in SCIENCE
NBC News
Twenty-six years ago in the blockbuster hit “Twister,” actor Helen Hunt appeared on the big screen as Dr. Jo Harding in one of the first mainstream media depictions of a female storm chaser. Opposite male storm chasers, Harding hunted down massive, record-breaking tornadoes with a combination of grit and scientific intelligence, shattering expectations about what a storm chaser could be. But in the years since then, the visibility of female storm chasers — people who conduct meteorological research in the field to report tornadoes, storms, hurricanes and other high-impact weather conditions to weather bureaus — has waned.
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