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On Thursday, May 19 from 1-2 p.m. ET, AWIS will host gender equity expert Sara Sanford for a conversation on effective negotiation for women and members of other underrepresented groups in the workplace. Participants will learn techniques to successfully renegotiate salaries, job titles, promotions, remote work schedules, and childcare subsidies.
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Only about 24% of medical physicists in the U.S. are women. AWIS member and medical physicist Dr. Kelly Paradis set out to investigate sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination in her field, naming sexual harassment as "perhaps the most vicious barrier of all" to women advancing in science careers.
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Science
When it comes to naming species they’ve discovered, scientists often like to have a little fun. There’s Ba humbugi, a Fiji snail referencing one of literature’s crankiest men. Or Spongiforma squarepantsii, a mushroom named after everyone’s favorite cartoon sponge. And for decades, researchers have named species after their colleagues or iconic researchers as a way to honor them, which is why some 300 species of animals are named after Charles Darwin. But that tradition may perpetuate societal biases, according to a new study of parasite names. The scientific names of nearly 3000 recently identified bloodsuckers, hijackers, and other banes of the biological world mostly honor men.
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Entrepreneur
Katya Echazarreta broke down in tears upon hearing the news: "My mom is going to go crazy!" She said after receiving a video call in which she learned that she would become the first Mexican woman to travel to space. She is a 26-year-old from Guadalajara, Jalisco, who moved to the United States when she was seven years old and who spent five years separated from her family due to the migration process.
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Smithsonian Magazine
For five years in the late 1840s, Anarcha, Betsey, Lucy and other unnamed enslaved women suffered at the hands of a white doctor who performed painful surgeries on the women without anesthesia, pain relief or consent. Now, a monument honoring the Mothers of Gynecology stands in Montgomery, not far from where the procedures took place and roughly a mile from where a statue of J. Marion Sims, “the father of gynecology” who experimented on the women, still stands in front of the Alabama State Capitol.
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BioSpace
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) accounts for about 37% of sudden unexpected infant deaths a year in the U.S., and the cause of SIDS has remained largely unknown. On Saturday, researchers from The Children's Hospital Westmead in Sydney released a study that has identified the first biochemical marker that could help detect babies more at risk of SIDS while they are alive.
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Phys.org
At just 33 years old, Caltech assistant professor Katie Bouman is already a veteran of two major scientific discoveries. The expert in computational imaging — developing algorithms to observe distant phenomena — helped create the program that led to the release of the first image of a black hole in a distant galaxy in 2019. She quickly became something of a global science superstar, and was invited to testify before Congress about her work.
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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 HIGHER EDUCATION
Nature
“No one ever talks to you about menopause,” says Carlotta Berry, an electrical and computer engineer at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. But a few years ago, it hit Berry “like a steam truck”. She got brain fog, she grew irritable and cranky, and her hair fell out, twice. What she came to call her ‘private summers’ — the dreaded hot flushes — would arrive at inconvenient times, such as during lectures.
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Nature
As Ava, a postdoctoral researcher at a top-tier university in North Carolina, bounces her three-month-old daughter on her lap during the final days of her family leave, she worries about whether she will be able to realize her dream of becoming a principal investigator (PI). Her biggest roadblock is the lack of affordable childcare. “You have to be competitive in order to get the PI positions, and I won’t be able to do that if I’m not able to put her in day care,” she says.
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Nature
Half of all the people on Earth will go through menopause. It is a natural part of ageing, affecting the majority of women, as well as some trans men and non-binary people. Levels of hormones including oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone decline, causing symptoms that can last a decade or more. Unfortunately, it is only in the past decade or so that its effects on women’s lives and careers have been the focus of more than a handful of studies.
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Inside Higher Ed
Victoria Delaney writes: It is 2:34 a.m. I begin the daily internal debate: Is it worth going back to sleep at this point? On one hand, I have only gotten fourish hours of sleep. On the other, I’m behind on my natural language processing lectures, have 25-plus messages in my inbox and owe a revised conceptual framework to peer reviewers. Groaning, I drag myself off the couch and fire up the coffee machine, crossing my fingers that my 9-week-old doesn’t wake as I open my laptop.
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The 19th News
Alexa Garza has been out of prison for three years, but she still remembers how confining it felt.
“I was surrounded by walls,” said Garza, who was incarcerated for two decades starting when she was 19. “I found that reading was an escape for me. I was able to read and learn and grow, and I knew that education was the key for me.” Already a high school graduate when she entered prison in Texas, Garza set out to obtain a higher education behind bars. That goal took the better part of her sentence to achieve. After a decade, she had earned two associate’s degrees. It took her five more years to earn a bachelor’s degree.
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.GENDER and HEALTH
The Scientist
At the recent U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sen. Marsha Blackburn triggered controversy when she asked Jackson to define the word “woman.” After Jackson declined, several Republican congresspeople chimed in with definitions for “woman” that ranged from dubious to shocking, including “the weaker sex,” “someone who has a uterus,” and “X chromosomes, no tallywhacker.” Such notions haven’t evolved much since 1871, when naturalist Charles Darwin told the world that “man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than women, and has more inventive genius.” Most 19th- and 20th-century evolutionary theories (and theorists) asserted that evolution created two kinds of creatures — male and female — and individuals’ behavior and nature reflected this biological binary.
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Scientific American
Women with endometriosis are often told they are pain-pill seekers, scam artists trying to take advantage of the health system. They are called “disruptive,” “crazy,” “faking it” and “psychosomatic.” They are told that their pain may be in their heads and to move beyond it. To stop being — well, stop being a woman. We are talking about young teens and women with endometriosis who want a diagnosis, effective treatments and compassionate care. There is no cure, and these women deserve one.
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Forbes
According to research, fewer than 5% of images in medical textbooks show dark skin. Though images generally reflect the distribution of the U.S. population by race, with 20% of images showing Black people and 17% showing other people of color, 75% of those images are of people with lighter skin tones. A 2022 study of skin tone representation in college-level human sexuality textbooks showed that just 1% of images represented dark skin tones. In a 2021 review of imagery used in the New England Journal of Medicine, 18% of images across specialties and regions were of non-white skin, but in some areas, there were zero images of non-white patients.
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.WOMEN in the WORKPLACE
Harvard Business Review
A recent study of women of color who work in the tech industry offers insight into why many don’t want to return to the office. Their reasons range from acts of overt racism and sexism, as well as more subtle dynamics, including: feeling the need to self-monitor their behavior (i.e. not presenting as “too Latina” or “too Black); self-editing so as not to present as too “intimidating”; being mistaken for admin or custodial staff; feeling the need to alter their appearance to “fit in”; and more.
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TIME
Over the past two years, with anti-Asian hatred on the rise, each new high-profile act of violence or discrimination has been quickly followed by a wave of company statements in support of the Asian American community — announcing anti-bias and anti-racism trainings, or unveiling new initiatives for Asian American employees, or highlighting gifts to Asian American community organizations. Whether or not these gestures are displays of performative allyship, one thing is clear: They’re not doing enough. According to a USA Today report, businesses still have a long way to go to ensure equity for Asian American women at the top ranks of leadership.
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.WOMEN in TECH
Harpers Bazaar
For too long, the stereotype that dogged the technology industry was that it was filled with a certain type of person: young men, usually white, with a penchant for hoodies and an addiction to coding. The reality, of course, is very different. If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that technology forms the basis of our everyday lives, and the people that operate at its highest echelons have helped us stay connected, facilitated breakthroughs in medicine, and developed new and innovative ways to tackle some of our planet’s most pressing problems.
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CNET
New diversity and inclusion figures from Intel show the company's going to need to make some tweaks to keep the percentages of groups typically underrepresented in the industry climbing. The percentage of women in technical roles slid from 25.2% to 24.3% between 2020 and 2021. It's not the direction the company is hoping for given the goal it set in 2020 to get women into 40% of technical roles by 2030. Tech giants like Google (25.7%), Facebook (24.8%), Apple (24.4%) and others have long struggled to hit 30% women in tech roles.
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