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What does DEI look like for your organization? Inclusion, Inc: How to Design Intersectional Equity into the Workplace by Sara Sanford tackles the realities of workplace bias and reveals an innovative, proven approach — changing mechanics rather than mindsets — that workplaces can adopt today to design bias out and equity in. Enter by May 23 for a chance to win a copy.
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While the National Science Foundation has funded programs increasing diversity in science over the past several years, it has made a parallel investment in the advancement of women among its staff. Women today occupy top leadership positions in five of its seven directorates. AWIS member Patricia Soochan spoke to three of these leaders about their journeys and lessons learned.
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For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, learn about several historical women and their contributions to STEM: Dr. Sau Lan Wu, the particle physicist who helped confirm the existence of three fundamental particles; Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu, known for her contributions to the Manhattan Project, and many others.
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Nature
Nobel laureates Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier first met at a 2011 conference in Puerto Rico, where both gave talks about a then little-known biological system called CRISPR–Cas9, which bacteria use as an immune defence. They immediately hit it off. “She was coming to CRISPR from a very different perspective than I was,” Doudna says. “And I liked her.”
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The Guardian
A NASA climate research scientist who has spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a changing climate was awarded the World Food prize. Cynthia Rosenzweig, an agronomist and climatologist, was awarded the $250,000 prize in recognition of her innovative modeling of the impact of climate change on food production. She is a senior research scientist at the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies and serves as adjunct senior research scientist at the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University, both based in New York.
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Tampa Bay Times
Eugenie Clark once recalled how, as a mesmerized child, she felt “completely attached” to a shark she saw swimming at a New York City aquarium.
“I just felt: If only I could be in the water with a shark,” Clark, then 83, told a Tampa Bay Times reporter in 2006.
Decades after that encounter, Clark — a prolific scientist, writer and professor who changed the way people understand fish — will be memorialized alongside a shark on a U.S. Postal Service stamp.
The blue, orange and yellow Forever stamp features side-by-side pictures: one of a young Clark, smiling beneath a snorkel, and another of a lemon shark.
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CNBC
May 3 marked Asian American and Pacific Island Women's Equal Pay Day, which signifies how far into the year AAPI women must work to catch up to what white men earned the previous year. Asian American and Pacific Islander women working full-time in the U.S. are typically paid $0.95 for every dollar paid to white men, according to the National Women’s Law Center. But Jasmine Tucker, the NWLC’s director of research, tells CNBC Make It that the $0.95 number doesn’t reflect the true wage gap given the “massive shedding of low-paying jobs” in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available.
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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.
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.WOMEN and MEDICINE
Scientific American
A leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion suggests the nation’s highest court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that guarantees the right to an abortion. The opinion was first reported by Politico. If it is officially issued later this year, nearly half of U.S. states will likely pass laws — or enforce existing ones — greatly restricting access to the procedure. One of the most comprehensive studies conducted to date shows that those who are denied an abortion — and thus forced to go through with an unwanted pregnancy — experience lasting impacts to their health, well-being and finances.
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Oprah Daily
The research that has come out of the pandemic is eye-opening: Black people are dying of Covid-19 at almost twice the rate of whites. Women and girls are disproportionately suffering from the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic (lost jobs, wages, poor mental health) — and the list goes on. Now more than ever, there are gaping social and racial inequities in America’s modern-day healthcare system.
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American Medical Association
The COVID-19 pandemic upended the playbook for women physicians, bringing an onslaught of fears and stressors about their health, families and patients. A webinar hosted by the AMA Women Physicians Section offered insights on how to encourage well-being, improve empathy and mitigate trauma through connection and communication.
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The Boston Globe
A rare but aggressive kind of uterine cancer appears to be driving an increase in US deaths from the disease, particularly among Black women, researchers reported. Over eight years, deaths from the aggressive type rose by 2.7 percent per year, while deaths were stable for the less aggressive kind, their study found. Black women had more than twice the rate of deaths from uterine cancer overall, and of the more aggressive type, when compared to other racial and ethnic groups.
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.WOMEN and HIGHER EDUCATION
MSNBC
Before the pandemic, political scientist and commentator Dr. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, 44, never imagined she would take the helm of a major academic institution like the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas. “I was an outsider to the world of higher ed,” the MSNBC and Telemundo contributor recently told Know Your Value. “The academic leadership pipeline for women is leaky and especially so for women of color.”
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Inside Higher Ed
It is often tiring being a Black woman staff member in higher education. You are held to double standards, and as in many professional spaces, you are often compared to stereotypes such as the “angry Black woman” or enforcer. For example, you are often primarily tasked with relaying difficult decisions or telling people no when others are too afraid to do so. People may often misinterpret your passion or even just your natural tone by assuming you are angry and unapproachable when you simply do not feel like performing or code switching.
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The Badger Herald
In the U.S., Black women’s risk of adverse health outcomes is disproportionately higher than that of white women because of structural inequities within the health system and beyond. A new study explored what this means for Black women in higher education. LaShawn Washington, a UW researcher and graduate student in the School of Education and Leadership and Policy Analysis, said the results of the study’s interviews so far have revealed adverse physical and mental health outcomes for Black women on the tenure track. Specifically, many subjects had experienced polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and other reproductive issues.
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.DIVERSITY in STEM
Phys.org
LGBT+ physicists often face harassment and other behaviors that make them leave the profession, according to a new study, which comes as physics as a discipline has attempted to grapple with equity and inclusion issues. The authors found that the two biggest factors that influence a person's decision to leave physics are the overall climate of the organization they belong to and more specifically observing exclusionary behavior.
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Vogue
I don’t want to read about John Muir anymore. I know his story after studying Environmental Science and Policy because it flows throughout the curriculum. I’ve grown tired of single-lens environmental narratives that prioritize male, mostly white, perspectives. Why are their legacies considered mandatory education while conservationists of color go unstudied and underappreciated? Since studying environmental science as an undergraduate, I’ve been on a journey to uncover the stories of Black women and their contributions to environmentalism. We’ve always been a part of environmental history, but seldom have our stories told and amplified.
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Forbes
In 2020, the National Geographic Society appointed Jill Tiefenthaler as CEO—the first woman to hold this position in the organization’s 134-year history. Now she is forging a new path for women and other underrepresented voices at the Society and bolstering how it shapes the narrative on some of the world's most pressing issues. Tiefenthaler — who prior to landing at Nat Geo had a successful career in economics and academia, including serving as provost of Wake Forest University and a nine-year tenure as the president of Colorado College — has a deep commitment to advancing work around diversity, equity and inclusion.
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.WOMEN in TECH
Fast Company
Arati Sharma never expected to become an angel investor. The child of Indian immigrants, she grew up middle class in Canada, graduating from McMaster University with a political science degree, and starting her career as a lobbyist in Ottawa.
“I wanted to be C. J. Cregg from The West Wing,” she tells Fast Company.
However, she found her niche helping out with social media strategy, and developed expertise in branding and project management. She brought these skills to the tech world and landed a job at Shopify during its early days. Sharma played a key role in building up product marketing.
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Employee Benefit News
The tech industry has traditionally been male-dominated — but it doesn’t need to stay that way. There’s enough room for everyone at the table, as long as employers are willing to do the work to create those opportunities. While women hold half of all jobs in the U.S. and more than half of the college degrees, they only fill 26.7% of tech-related jobs, according to the WomenTech Network. Until the tech industry recognizes their role in the recruiting process, the statistics will remain startlingly low.
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.GIRLS in STEM
The Bookseller
On Wednesday April 27, 2022, the government’s social mobility commissioner, Katharine Birbalsingh, appeared before the Commons Science and Technology Committee to discuss diversity and inclusion in STEM subjects. When asked why fewer girls chose A-level physics, she stated “I just think they don’t like it. There’s a lot of hard maths in there that I think they would rather not do… the research generally… just says that’s a natural thing,” she added. “I don’t think there’s anything external.”
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The Columbus Dispatch
Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland announced plans for a $16-million facility geared toward attracting more women to science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers. The STEM Leadership Center & Maker Space will be at Camp Ken-Jockety in Galloway and is part of Girl Scouts of the USA's goal of putting 2.5 million girls in the STEM pipeline by 2025.
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