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AWIS
With several existing board members completing their terms this year, the AWIS Board of Directors will be adding five (5) to seven (7) new Directors for the 2022-2025 term. If you (or someone you know) would like to help set the strategic direction of AWIS, let us know! For more details about the opportunity to serve on the Board, including a description of the role, the application process, and key milestones, visit www.awis.org/call-for-nominations. Nominations are being accepted through midnight on October 27, 2021.
AWIS
The 2021 Nobel Prize winners in the categories of physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine have been announced and none of the winners are women. AWIS congratulates the new Nobel Laureates on their recognition, however we are deeply concerned about the lack of diversity among the recipients.
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.HOT HEADLINES
TechCrunch
Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. An edtech startup called Entity Academy — which provides women with training, in areas like data science and software development; mentoring; and ultimately job coaching — has raised $100 million on the heels of strong growth of its business, and an ambition to improve that ratio.
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Concordia University
A beloved professor spent her final days raising awareness — and record funds — to support the next generation of neuroscientists at Concordia. Chaudhri passed away on October 5, 2021, more than a year after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
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Nature
Renowned geneticist Francis Collins has announced that he will step down as director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health by the end of the year. Collins has built a reputation as a savvy spokesperson for scientific research, winning supporters across party lines, even through a politically charged public-health crisis.
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.DIVERSITY IN STEM
Eco-Business
A researcher's publication record is often considered a measure of their influence in the field and can be crucial for their career progression.
The pressure on researchers to publish high-quality work is so great that it has spawned the phrase "publish or perish." However, the playing field of scientific publishing is highly unequal and it can be disproportionately challenging for certain groups of people — including women and researchers from the global south — to succeed in this system.
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WWNY-TV
Despite the countless contributions historically black colleges and universities have made to American innovation and to building the Black middle class over the past 180+ years, people continue to challenge their value. Last week, the 93rd Annual National Technical Association Conference and Student Symposium, themed "Broadening Participation in STEM: Valuing HBCUs," brought together faculty from HBCU campuses, representatives from government and industry, along with members of the community, to highlight the critical role HBCUs play in powering the next generation of STEM diversity.
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Nature
Ana Valenzuela-Toro and Mariana Viglino write: As female researchers from Latin American countries (one of us now works in the United States, the other in Argentina), we're used to career obstacles. These range from limited funding to language barriers and the "tax," in terms of time and emotional energy, incurred when under-represented groups in science participate in diversity initiatives. These barriers knit together to create problems beyond the obvious.
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MarketScreener
Thirty-seven women from AT&T will be recognized for their stellar achievements and contributions to the company and to their fields at this year's Women of Color STEM Conference in the categories of Outstanding Technical Contribution, Tech All-Star, and Tech Rising Star.
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.GENDER EQUITY in STEM
HW News
The number of women employed in the international space industry represents just 20-22% of the workforce, according to figures released by the UN; roughly the same proportion as 30 years ago.
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.WOMEN in TECH
CNBC
The pandemic has caused women's participation in the workforce to drop across industries, and tech is no exception. Women make up 26.7% of technologists — a 2.1% drop in representation from March 2020 and a reverse after five years of progress, according to a new report from AnitaB.org, a global non-profit focused on intersectional gender and pay parity in tech.
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TechRepublic
If you've been to a virtual conference lately or hung out on Twitter, you might not realize what you're missing: women. Hopefully, the conference has a healthy roster of women speakers. And, just as hopefully, you follow women on Twitter. But in both places, you're almost certainly not getting a high-fidelity version of women's voices. Instead, you're almost certainly hearing or reading a dumbed-down version of what they could share if only we'd stop shouting them down.
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.WORK-LIFE INTEGRATION
Inside Higher Ed
In their new book, The Ph.D. Parenthood Trap: Caught Between Work and Family in Academia, Kerry F. Crawford and Leah C. Windsor review the many impacts of parenthood on professors. They cover practical issues such as breastfeeding, and the more philosophical, such as trying to find work-life balance.
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.CAREER ADVICE
USC News
A team of USC researchers who have long employed virtual humans to understand social behavior set out to find whether women performed differently than men during a salary negotiation.
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The Guardian
Dr. Sunny Lee tackles three myths about negotiation, and presents some alternative perspectives:
Teaching negotiations for the past seven years, I have heard from many people that they simply don’t like negotiating. Surveys show similarly negative attitudes about negotiations in the workplace. According to a recent Glassdoor survey, about 60% of workers do not negotiate their salary. Another survey found that about 50% of workers felt uncomfortable initiating negotiations.
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.GIRLS in STEM
NPR
When Saleema Rehman was a kid growing up in refugee camps in Pakistan, her nickname was "Doctor Saleema."
Her mom faced severe complications while delivering her — and Rehman's dad, Abdul, promised that if the baby lived, he would make sure the child became a doctor.
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Yahoo! News
Barbie is being sent to space. Yes, really. The iconic fashion doll brand has partnered with the European Space Agency to launch a project designed to inspire young girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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People
In honor of International Day of the Girl on Oct. 11, read more for a celebration of young innovators and trailblazers making a difference in their communities and beyond.
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