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Spring is an excellent time for new beginnings.
Join AWIS now to support the chapter and to take advantage of AWIS
services including the online Mentornet.
Go to www.awis.org to join!
Make sure to also join the Massachusetts
(Boston Area) Chapter. Students/post-docs/retirees/ unemployed pay
only $35.00 to join MASS AWIS!
In this email:
-Interesting globe article link
-AWIS Western Mass event: Women In
Science-Changing the Climate from the Bottom Up and the Top Down, April
17
-An unscripted dialogue with Ben Barres and
Nancy Hopkins about gender issues in the sciences, March 23
-Professor Abigail Stewart--Advancing Women
in Science and Engineering, April 6
Globe Article on how women do too much!
See below for an interesting article on how
successful women dont' seem to be able to give up 1/2 of their house responsiblities
to their husbands...do you fit this profile? If so, call AWIS to
learn how to stop!
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/03/11/the_job_without_benefits/?page=full
Association for Women in Science is
coming West!
Women In Science: Changing the Climate
from the Bottom Up and the Top Down
Panel and discussion with faculty leaders--light
dinner provided
Tues. April 17, 2007 5 – 7 pm, UMass Amherst,
Isenberg SOM Room 112
Jane Fountain
of CPPA
Sandy Petersen,
co-pi of the NEAGEP
Anna Nagurney
of the Supernetwork Center plus
Joanne Kamens of Abbott Labs &
Mass AWIS
and
Liesell Trinidad, Graduate Student,
Engineering
Directions: http://www.umass.edu/visitorsctr/Campus_Map/
for information or to RSVP, contact Barbara
Pearson, RL&D bpearson@...,
545-5023
Please join us for An unscripted dialogue
with Ben Barres and Nancy Hopkins about gender issues in the sciences
Friday, March 23, 2007, 4pm-6pm, Broad Institute
Auditorium, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
map and directions: http://www.broad.mit.edu/info/visiting.html
For those who have been thinking about these
questions,which have surfaced again and again within the MIT biology community:
- How does someone's identity affect the
way her/his work is judged?
- What would make people consider an issue
to be about gender?
- What do people mean when they say "she
just doesn't fit in with our department?"
-What makes someone a "good fit"
forbeing an academic scientist?
- Why does my advisor discuss my work with
a male colleague in the lab, when it's my work and I'm standing right there?
- How can someone advocate for women when
they deny that sexism exist in their own institute?
- Why are people afraid of having these discussions
in public?
Panelist information:
Professor Ben Barres is a neuroscientist
at Stanford University who was an undergraduate at MIT. His letters drawing
attention
to gender and minority issues in the sciences
have appeared in Nature and the Tech.
Professor Nancy Hopkins is a geneticist at
MIT, who has been invited to speak all over the country about her long-time
study of and advocacy for women in science.
This will be her first time speaking at MIT about these issues.
Co-sponsored by the Technology & Culture
Forum at MIT and LBGT@MIT
contact info for this event: beyondthevote@...
Boston University Women in Science
and Engineering (BU WISE)
Professor Abigail Stewart--Advancing Women
in Science and Engineering
Friday, April 6, 2:00 – 3:30 , Trustee Center
Ballroom, School of Management Buildingm 1 Sherborn Street, 9th Floor, Boston
Please enter the building off the Sherborn
Street side of the building taking the West Bank of Elevators to the 9th
floor.
Pass through the glass doors and make a right
following the signs to the Trustee Center Ballroom.
Abigail J. Stewart is Sandra Schwarz Tangri
Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan
and director of the University of Michigan ADVANCE project, supported by
the NSF ADVANCE program on Institutional Transformation.
Dr. Stewart has published many scholarly
articles and several books, focusing on the psychology of women's lives,
personality, and adaptation to personal and social changes. Her current
research, which combines qualitative and quantitative methods, includes
comparative analyses of longitudinal studies of educated women's lives
and personalities; a collaborative study of race, gender and generation
in the graduates of a Midwest high school; and research and interventions
on gender and science and technology with middle-school-age girls, undergraduate
students, and faculty.
This lecture is free and open to the public--For
further information please email wise@... .
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