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In 1971, a group of 35 women, compelled by their own experiences in STEM, formed AWIS. In the 50 years since, AWIS has helped guide Congress, the United Nations, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, institutions, and other professional organizations on decisions and best practices to achieve gender equity in STEM. In this short video, learn about AWIS' biggest milestones and why our work is still needed today.
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In honor of Women's History Month, Marie Benedict will discuss her latest book with AWIS on March 10 at 1 p.m. ET. Her Hidden Genius features Rosalind Franklin, PhD, the x-ray crystallographer who uncovered the helical nature of DNA, and the challenges she faced as a woman in science including family expectations, a sexist work environment, and deteriorating physical health from repeated radiation. Register for the webinar by January 25 to be entered into a drawing to receive a copy of the book!
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Phys.org
A new study by a team of researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education finds a widespread implicit bias against academic work that simply seems feminine — even if it's not about women or gender specifically. Scholars whose dissertation abstracts had words like parenting, children or relationship, for example, had slimmer career prospects than people who used words like algorithm, efficiency or war.
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The Washington Post
Hollins University, a small liberal arts school for women in Roanoke, is getting a $75 million gift from an anonymous alumna that is believed to set a modern record for a private donation to any women's college.
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CNN
Teen pilot Zara Rutherford landed in Seoul on Saturday, December 11 from Russia, the first Asia stop on her attempt to become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo.
In August, the 19-year-old British-Belgian departed from Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in western Belgium on her 51,000-km journey, which is to span five continents and 52 countries, including the United States, Russia and Colombia.
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The University of Miami’s Master of Science in Data Science provides interdisciplinary connections and experiential learning opportunities across all aspects of data science: from machine learning to marketing, from city planning to climatology. Consider advancing your career with a cutting-edge degree located in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech hubs.
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World Economic Forum
The reality is that climate change affects women and men differently. Across the world, particularly in less economically developed countries, extreme weather events associated with climate change — such as droughts and floods — have harsher effects on more vulnerable people, many of whom are women.
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.WOMEN and the PANDEMIC
The Conversation
The pandemic's hardships in academia have been widespread and lasting, but our analyses revealed that female and early career scientists faced more negative impacts than other groups. These differences are likely aggravating already existing disparities and potentially altering career trajectories.
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Phys.org
Women employees are facing bigger career challenges than their male colleagues with interruptions to their work-from-home life, according to new research by UConn management professor Nora Madjar.
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NeurologyToday
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, women working in neurology research found that both their work and home life got much harder. Six female researchers offer advice for other women trying to balance the competing demands.
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Peer review is a critical element of ACS Publications’ journals
program; we are committed to exploring new ways of conducting peer
review to better serve our community and demonstrate our commitment
to open science. Learn more about the transparent peer review
pilot launched with ACS Central Science and The Journal of Physical
Chemistry Letters.
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Contemporary OB/GYN
Among its other consequences, the COVID-19 pandemic may be harming the mental health and career prospects of women physicians, especially those with children and physician spouses, a new study finds. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, looks at gender differences in work-family responsibilities and emotional well-being among 215 early-career physicians since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.EQUITY in STEM
Nature
At the end of 2019, Nature pledged to work harder to help to address the entrenched gender inequity at scientific conferences. We looked closely at gender diversity at Nature Conferences, and what we saw was simply not good enough. We introduced a code of conduct, including pledges to have no all-male panels and to invite an equal percentage of women, including all those who identify as women, and men as speakers at all our conferences.
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STAT
Erica Taylor, who has degrees from the University of Virginia and Duke, always wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon since she was 15. So as a sophomore, Taylor asked to meet with a local orthopedic surgeon about the field. He enthusiastically agreed. But when she arrived, his demeanor changed. "He said, 'Oh, you're Erica,' and for 20 minutes proceeded to tell me that orthopedics was too hard and most people like me go into family medicine or maybe OB-GYN," said Taylor, who is Black.
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MeriTalk
An all-female panel of Federal agency leaders acknowledged on Dec. 9 that while women have made a significant gain in science, technology, engineering, and math occupations, they continue to face challenges.
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.WOMEN in TECH
VentureBeat
There's been a lot of discussion about how we see few women of color in tech because there are few of them in the STEM pipeline. But a forthcoming study my team conducted as part of the Kapor Center's Women of Color in Computing Collaborative shows that the pipeline is only part of the problem. We found robust evidence of bias, which was associated with women of color in tech being the equivalent of 37.6 percentage points less likely than white women to see a long-term future for themselves at their companies.
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The Lily
The Work Day, is a series that charts a single day in various women's working lives — from gallery owners to stay-at-home parents to chief executives. In this installment, we hear from Pill Club chief executive Liz Meyerdirk, who recorded a workday in the summer.
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.WOMEN in INNOVATION
The Washington Post
Jada Yuan writes: "Someone pulled a cord and yellow fabric billowed down, revealing a three-story-tall statue of my grandmother. It was May 2012, in a city just north of Shanghai. And there she loomed, a sculptor’s rendition of Chien-Shiung Wu, the pioneering, internationally renowned nuclear physicist, who left China in 1936 to pursue her education in the United States, and, in a lot of ways, resisted looking back. She disproved what was thought to be a fundamental law of nature and raised my dad in Manhattan and taught me how to use chopsticks as a kid."
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Food Engineering Magazine
Chinova Bioworks — a startup in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada — was cofounded by CEO Natasha Dhayagude, who has focused on hiring women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. To date, she has put together a startup company where 90% of its team are women technology workers.
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