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As 2021 comes to a close, AWIS would like to wish our members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide our readers with a look at some of the most accessed articles from the past year. Our regular publication will resume Tuesday, Jan. 11.
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Happy holidays from AWIS! There is so much to celebrate as we look back on an impactful year. In 2021, we celebrated 50 years of advocating for women in science, created a simpler and more equitable dues structure, hosted a variety of thought leaders for our #DiscoverWhatsNext webinar series, awarded four scholarships, and much more.
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The Conversation
From October 26: Engineering in the U.S. has long been — and continues to be — a male-dominated profession. Fifty years ago, it looked like that might change. In 1970, the percentage of women majoring in engineering was less than 1%. In 1979, that number was 9%. Today, only 21% of engineering majors are women.
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MIT News
From October 19: The MIT Press recently announced the digital release of "The Uprising," a documentary short about the unprecedented behind-the-scenes effort that amassed irrefutable evidence of differential treatment of men and women on the MIT faculty in the 1990s.
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NPR Illinois
From October 5: 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.
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Inside Higher Ed
From October 26: In the academic environment, we put a premium on the ability to tackle complicated problems in a nuanced way and to reason at a high level. This approach emphasizes the components of general intelligence, the set of highly correlated cognitive skills that some people associate with IQ tests or other measures.
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American Physical Society
From October 5: 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.
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USC News
From October 12: 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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Forbes
From November 9: Marshall Shepherd writes: "Earlier today, I sat through yet another meeting in which colleagues in the federal sector lobbed the term 'minority' around in describing the lack of diversity within STEM disciplines. Over the years, this term has increasingly bothered me, and I think it is time for it to be retired when describing diversity and inclusion issues within STEM fields."
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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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Fast Company
From September 28: Unfounded assumptions about how motherhood affects worker productivity can harm women's careers in science, technology, engineering and math long before they are — or even intend to become — mothers, according to a new study.
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Marie Claire
From November 16: One of the best ways to empower ourselves for success is to listen to the wise words of those who have carved out their paths before us. That's exactly why we asked the judges of this year's Marie Claire Future Shapers Awards to share their most valuable career tips.
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Entrepreneur
From October 26: Mariah Carey is partnering with cryptocurrency platform Gemini on a new campaign aiming at making the asset class less daunting and more accessible to women. Fifty-percent of "cryptocurious" potential investors are women. The company's hope is that, as a recent convert herself, Carey can get women from her diverse international fanbase into the crypto world.
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