Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2010
Volume 55, Number 1
Saturday–Tuesday, February 13–16, 2010; Washington, DC
Session Q6: Perspectives of Women Physicists As Seen From Academia, National Laboratories, and Industry |
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Sponsoring Units: COM/CSWP FGSA/AAPT Chair: Kawtar Hafidi, Argonne National Laboratory Room: Washington 5 |
Monday, February 15, 2010 1:30PM - 2:06PM |
Q6.00001: Experience of women physicist in industry (Tentative) Invited Speaker: |
Monday, February 15, 2010 2:06PM - 2:42PM |
Q6.00002: Opportunities and Challenges for Women in Physics in National Laboratories Invited Speaker: America's national laboratories have long been major players advancing science and technology, especially in physics and engineering. Both true government laboratories, like the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Naval Research Laboratory, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and contractor-operated laboratories, like most of the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories, employ large numbers of physicists---mostly men, but increasing numbers of women. Among them are former astronaut Sally Ride, APS' 2009 President Cherry Murray, Nobel laureate Maria Goeppert Mayer, Leona Woods Marshall Libby, Elaine Oran, and Deborah Jin. Research at national laboratories also involve numerous high-school, undergraduate, and graduate students, along with post-doctoral fellows, thereby helping to launch many into physics careers. This presentation will discuss the opportunities, challenges, and climate for women in physics at national laboratories, from the perspective of a person with about 20 years experience as a researcher and manager at both NASA and DOE laboratories. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, February 15, 2010 2:42PM - 3:18PM |
Q6.00003: Women Physicists in Academia Invited Speaker: The last decade marked the emergence of several important studies and workshops worldwide that focused attention on women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP) of the American Physical Society (APS) is very active in organizing national workshops and follow up ``conversations'' with physics departments and national laboratories [1,2] to address the gender gap in the field of physics. The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) is also very devoted to this issue, and the US is involved by contributing our lesson learned and our plans to increase the number of women in physics. In the US, our goal of doubling the number of women in physics by 2022 is ambitious but could be achieved. I will present the present status on this issue and our plans for the future. \\[4pt] [1] http://www.aps.org/programs/women/workshops/gender-equity/index.cfm \\[0pt] [2] Report, ``Gender Equity: Strengthening the Physics Enterprise in Universities and National Laboratories'', 2007. [Preview Abstract] |
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