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MEMBERS ONLY EVENT--CHAPTER ELECTIONS AND 2006 PROGRAM PLANNING, NOVEMBER 29, 8-10 PM IN THE HARVARD MEDICAL AREA
We will be having our first chapter elections. We are lucky to have a strong slate of women eager to join in coordinating the work of our chapter! The slate of officers with short biographies will be sent out in a separate email.
Please attend and share your ideas on future programming for our growing chapter! You never know where your next opportunity will come from...come meet the people trying to make a difference for women and girls in scientific fields! Even if this is your first AWIS meeting, we are eager to have your opinions and input!
99 Brookline Avenue, Entrance on Overland Street (near Fenway Park)
There is no charge for this event, RSVPs are not necessary, but nice. Email Joanne.Niewood@...
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FROM THE AWIS WASHINGTON WIRE (Become an AWIS member to get the entire edition!)
Catalyst Releases Report Addressing Barriers to Women's Advancement
Gender-based stereotyping and not fact-based information often informs senior executives' perceptions of men and women and misrepresents the true talents of women, which contributes to the startling gender gap in business leadership. This is according to "Women 'Take Care,' Men 'Take Charge': Stereotyping of U.S. Business Leaders Exposed," a study by Catalyst. The effects of gender-based stereotyping can be devastating, potentially undermining women's capacity to lead, and pose serious challenges to women's career advancement, the study finds. For the whole text, visit http://www.catalystwomen.org/files/full/Women%20Take%20Care%20Men%20Take%20Charge.pdf.
Harvard Provost Office Is Restructured
In an effort to grow with the times, the Harvard University Office of the Provost has undergone a reorganization over the past several months. The purpose is to accomplish better faculty representation in the administration, develop a more diverse faculty, and to improve the University's capacity to recruit underrepresented groups, especially women and minorities. For more on the restructuring, visit http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/10.20/03-provost.html.
Women Faculty Make Little Progress
The percentage of women faculty members in the top 50 chemistry departments has increased only slightly. Women are still vastly underrepresented among full professors, despite slow and steady progress between the 2000-01 and 2005-06 academic years, according to a survey by Chemical & Engineering News. Currently, women represent 13% of the total chemistry faculty, a rise from the 12% last year. For more, visit http://pubs.acs.org/cen/education/83/8344women.html.
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Local events of interest (see below for details):
-The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "The Challenges and Rewards for Women in Science."
-New Girls Website in Science/Technology/Math
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-The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics "The Challenges and Rewards for Women in Science."
Thursday, November 17th in Hall D of the Harvard University ScienceCenter, 7:00 p.m. FREE
We highly encourage young women who are considering a career in science to attend this event! Please note that seating is first-come, first-served,so we recommend early arrival.
Dr. Jennifer Sokolowski, Moderator - NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics,Postdoctoral Fellow at CfA
Dr. Andrea Dupree - Senior Astrophysicist at CfA and past president of the American Astronomical Society
Dr. Kate Kirby - Director of the Institute for Theoretical Atomic,Molecular and Optical Physics
Dr. Faith Vilas - Chief of a NASA planetary astronomy group and Director of the MMT Observatory in Arizona
Ms. Nitya Kallivayalil - Graduate student in the Harvard Department of Astronomy
Full details and directions are online at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/ep/women.html
More information is available by calling (617) 495-7461 or sending e-mail to pubaffairs@...
-New Girls Website in Science/Technology/Math http://www.zoeysroom.com
Zoey's Room, an interactive website and after-school community for girls ages 10-14, launched nationally this fall, encouraging girls to start exploring the "hard skills" of math, science and technology. We know that girls work best in a collaborative environment-- not by sitting and staring at a male teacher lecture in a classroom. We also know that girls need support and encouragement from other Fab Females in these fields in order to remain interested. Zoey's Room was created with these basic needs in mind--
Zoey's Room is currently the only website out there with a multi-ethnic character, "Zoey," who chats every day after school with girls in her specially protected room. Once girls are comfortable, they're motivated to try Zoey's online challenges in math, environmental engineering, hard science, nanotechnology, database and web design (to name a few) in order to win big prizes like digital cameras and wireless mice from Logitech.
Since September already more than 60 girls and more than 9 YWCAS all around New England have joined to make this one of the coolest cyber communities for girls. We're hitting the national scene now and could use your help. Please check out our site and spread the word through your own websites, newsletters, blogs and articles. We will be happy to write articles as well. The 'Net community of women in these fields is strong and that's why we're spreading the word electronically.
For more information Kaley Noonan programzr@...
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