An (approximate) anniversary!
UW Women in STEM is now (about) one year old! (Does anyone know what date we had our first meeting last year? If you do, please comment below.) Stay posted for details of the birthday party, which may...
View ArticleOctober brown bag and welcome back!
Our first meeting of the year will be on Tuesday, October 14 (ETA: at noon), in our usual G-417! Please feel free to invite new members. We’ll have open discussion time and news of an exciting campus...
View Articleit’s Nobel week!
Congratulations to John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard Moser for the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, announced today. The prize was awarded for their work discovering and describing...
View Articlewhy women leave tech
The author of this article surveyed about 700 women who had left positions in the tech sector (health, biotech, and other science fields were not counted – this was technology only), examining the...
View ArticleNobel week wrap-up (almost – those darn economists!)
Read Monday’s post kicking off the week here. Except economics, the 2014 Nobel week has come to a close. First, the sciences: The physics prize was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji...
View Articlemeeting recap and a contributed article
At yesterday’s meeting discussion ranged from having children to what institutions can do to make an academic career feasible for women. We also discussed an opportunity for a collaboration with...
View ArticleAn Introvert’s Guide to Networking
From Sharona: how to make successful career connections as an introvert. I for one appreciate that the author doesn’t just give platitudes about finding your inner extrovert, but actually provides some...
View ArticleNYT: “Academic Science Isn’t Sexist”
This NYT op-ed claims that academic science is no longer sexist. Then why are more new hires men, men still have higher retention throughout the pipeline, and maternity leave can still be as little as...
View ArticleNovember link roundup
It’s been a busy few weeks on this side of my keyboard, and also for women in science in the news: A Barbie book supposedly encouraging girls to try computer science is called out for being...
View ArticleA pair of Science articles
In this week’s Science, a study and a commentary on that study on yet another potential reason why the proportion of women is lower in some fields of academia (not just the sciences) – this time,...
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