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Dara Norman |
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"Tough Talk: Women Giving
Colloquia" |
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Attending and giving talks are essential parts of career
development for astronomers. Invitations to speak at
conferences and give colloquia are important career milestones.
Colloquia in particular continue to be an important means of
exposure for early career scientists providing an opportunity to
increase the visibility of one's research and to make oneself
known to the broader astronomical community.
In this
poster, we present archival data collected from 46 universities
and other research institutions on the gender make-up of their
colloquia from 2004-2008. Given the prestige and career
advancement potential of giving colloquia, we examine how
representative the colloquia are by comparing these data to the
general availability of women in the astronomical workforce. We
find that the average percentage of women giving colloquia at
each institution ranges from about 10-33%. We
also look for trends in the colloquia percentages with
university demographics and the workforce status of female
colloquia speakers. We examine how representative colloquia are
of the female astronomical workforce.
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