This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here Your weekly round-up of must-read news on women in science October 5, 2021 .AWIS UPDATES .HOT HEADLINES All eyes on the Nobel Prizes for science. Here's what to expect CNN In 2019, the Nobel Committee asked nominators to consider diversity in gender, geography and field but that year saw an all-male line-up of laureates. Last year, two women, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna, won the Nobel prize for chemistry, for the development of the CRISPR method for genome editing, while Andrea Ghez was part of a trio that won the Nobel prize for physics for her work on a supermassive blackhole. READ MORE L'Oreal and UNESCO Awards for Women in Science recognize five women researchers for pioneering work Mirage UNESCO and the L'Oreal Foundation are unveiling the winners of this year's International Prize for Women in Science, which honours five eminent women scientists with exceptional careers from the five regions of the world, as it has done annually since 1998. READ MORE This year's Macarthur 'Genius Grants' were just announced — here's the full winner list NPR This year's list of recipients includes art historian and curator Nicole Fleetwood, whose museum exhibition "Marking Time" collected artwork made by incarcerated people while in prison. The list also includes landscape ecologist Lisa Schulte Moore, who has been working with farmers toward more sustainable agricultural systems. And it also includes Daniel Alarcon, writer and producer of the NPR-distributed podcast Radio Ambulante. READ MORE The women who win American Physical Society Women who have received major physics prizes share their thoughts about what the awards mean to them and about how they help in bringing science to the forefront. READ MORE Google celebrates marine biologist María de los Ángeles Alvariño González with latest Doodle CNN Google honored María de los Ángeles Alvariño González with a Doodle on Oct. 3, 2021, the 105th birthday of the marine research biologist "widely regarded as one of the most important Spanish scientists of all time," Google said. She discovered 22 new species of zooplankton and published more than 100 scientific papers, according to Google and biographies of the scientist.m READ MORE .DIVERSITY IN STEM Tolerance is not inclusion. Here's how to get inclusion right Protocol Tech companies have been releasing diversity reports since 2014, but the recent experiences of whistleblowers like Dr. Timnit Gebru and Ifeoma Ozoma serve as another wake-up call to those in the tech industry who don't know what it feels like to experience racism and discrimination. If these well-detailed experiences of racism, sexism and discrimination in tech have taught us anything, it's that inclusion is perhaps the most important element of diversity and inclusion work. READ MORE Historically Black colleges can't solve tech's diversity problem alone Fortune It has been a record year for funding and interest for the country's historically Black colleges and universities. As a result of the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package that President Biden signed in March, roughly 100 Black colleges are set to gain billions of federal dollars this year. READ MORE Fostering inclusion and diversity in STEM organizations All Together Promoting inclusion and diversity initiatives within the STEM field is notoriously difficult, often due to unconscious bias in hiring efforts, promotions, and centuries-old inclusion issues. According to recent Pew Research, Hispanic and Black workers continue to be underrepresented in the STEM workforce, and women make up a quarter or fewer of workers in computing and engineering. READ MORE Search engines like Google are powered by racist, misogynist algorithms, says Macarthur Fellow NPR Illinois Safiya Noble burst out in tears upon hearing the news of her MacArthur Fellowship — when she finally answered the phone after a week of believing the Chicago number was robocalling her. Noble studies internet bias, and how search engines like Google or Yahoo exacerbate racism and bias against women. She's founder and co-director of the University of California Los Angeles' new Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. READ MORE .WOMEN in LEADERSHIP New report says women leaders help their teams manage work-life balance MarketPlace A new report from McKinsey and Company and Lean In on the state of women in the workplace confirms that burnout among women in corporate America has gotten even worse since last year. More than 40% of women said they were "often or almost always" burned out this year, and the gap between women and men's responses got wider. READ MORE How to make corporate boards more diverse Center for American Progress Race and gender diversity on corporate boards is unacceptably low, but better corporate practices and SEC engagement could help accelerate progress toward more diversity, equity and inclusion. READ MORE .WORK-LIFE INTEGRATION Working toward better work-life balance for women Greatist Workers of every gender, especially parents and caregivers, have a hard time juggling work and home responsibilities. However, there are generations of societal pressures and expectations that make work-life balance a unique challenge for people who identify as women. Here's how you can find more harmony in your life. READ MORE COVID-19's impact on women physicians' work life in academia American Medical Association The pandemic threatens to cause a backslide of progress that has been made with gender equity and success in academic medicine. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, women in academic medicine were underrepresented in senior leadership positions. While women make up 41% of all full-time academic medical school faculty, they only account for 18% of academic chairs, 18% of deans and 25% of full professors. READ MORE Less than half of OB/GYN moms were personally, professionally prepared for pandemic Healio Women who were both mothers and OB/GYN physicians faced significant challenges balancing their personal and professional lives in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study presented during the Women in Medicine Summit. READ MORE .GIRLS in STEM Women in STEM: The key to getting these 10 scholarships Built In Want to attend a bootcamp but it's a budget buster? A number of bootcamps offer partial scholarships, or sometimes even a full ride, to women in STEM. What's really important is knowing how to ace the scholarship application. READ MORE Viewpoint: To close STEM gender gap, we must intentionally invest in women and girls Boston Business Journal Business and philanthropic communities can do more to open doors for girls and women to thrive in these careers. READ MORE Women STEM professionals and students looking to get more girls involved in STEM careers WJHG-TV There are thousands of careers for young people to go into. "STEM is one of the newer terms that is science, technology, engineering, and math," Tiffany Castricone, an architect for Michael Baker International, said. READ MORE Women in STEM: Getting there, but not fast enough CEO World Magazine According to a recent nationwide study, women make up only 28% of the U.S. workforce in occupations that require training in STEM. The underrepresentation of women in these fields seems likely to continue, as men outnumber women majoring in most STEM undergraduate programs. 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