Weekly Roundup 11/30/12

This week's picks:

A man's smile can make women act subordinate

Awesome Six-Year-Old Girl Writes to Hasbro About Gender Inequality in Guess Who

Weekly Update 11/16/12

This week's picks:

6 Secrets of How Successful Women Lead (thank you Caroline Benn!)

Life Science Salaries (thank you Caroline Benn!)

Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students (thank you Alicia Brantley!)

Weekly Roundup 11/9/12

This week's picks:

10 Rules for Brilliant Women (thanks Leslie Dalisay!)

Beware of Red Flags From an Interviewer

How to Network at a Conference

3 new funding opportunities and jobs :

Now accepting applications for the Diversity in Science Program, from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Health Scientist Administrator Global Recruitment Announcements

The 2013-2015 Paul Janssen Fellowship in Translational Neuroscience Research at Columbia University

Check our jobs/funding tab for more information.

Weekly Roundup 11/2/12

This week's picks:

Cultural and communication barriers hold back international growth of companies (Thanks Mary B.!)

What Women Know About Leadership That Men Don't

Perspective: Embrace Flexible Work Arrangements (Thanks Sofia Jurgensen!)

Weekly Roundup 10/26/12

This week's picks:

The 5 new skills every woman needs to succeed at work

Bias Persists for Women of Science, a Study Finds

How To Make The Money You Deserve Without "Selling Out"

Check the jobs/funding tab for two new funding opportunities!

Also, there are several new discussions open in our LinkedIn page, feel free to leave your thoughts.

Weekly Roundup 9/26/12

This week's picks:

I Ain’t Sayin’ He’s a Gold Digger: What happens when the wife earns more? A survey of Slate readers.

Weekly Roundup 9/21/12

This week's picks:

Online Mentors to Guide Women Into the Sciences (Thank you Fair Vassoler!)

Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students (Thank you Alicia Brantley!)

Scientists, Your Gender Bias Is Showing

Weekly Roundup 9/14/12

This week's picks:

How to Announce Your Pregnancy At Work

Beauty Queen Alumna Teaches Science with a Tiara on TV

"Princess scientists" draw young girls into science, and plenty of controversy

“Princess Scientist” Trend Actually Discouraging Girls From Pursuing Science


Don't forget!

Annual PWN meeting

Date: Monday October15th, 2012

Time: 4-6pm

Location: The American Sector Restaurant, 7 minute walk from the convention center

google map

945 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70130, Entrance on Magazine Street and Poeyfarre Street

Ph: 504-528-1940

http://www.nationalww2museum.org/american-sector/index.html

Happy hour!! Discounted drinks, appetizers are on us!

Weekly Roundup 9/7/12

This week's picks:

5 ways to spot bad employees before they are hired

From Office Manager to Freelance Writer: How I Built My Career

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Annual PWN meeting

Date: Monday October15th, 2012

Time: 4-6pm

Location: The American Sector Restaurant, 7 minute walk from the convention center

google map

945 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70130, Entrance on Magazine Street and Poeyfarre Street

Ph: 504-528-1940

http://www.nationalww2museum.org/american-sector/index.html

Happy hour!! Discounted drinks, appetizers are on us!

Weekly Roundup 8/31/12

This week's picks:

Never say these five things in a job interview

Google Is Basically Googling a Better Way to Hire and Retain Women

Weekly Roundup 8/24/12

This week's picks:

Interview Body Language Mistakes That Can Cost You The Job

Women in U.S. Academic Medicine: Statistics and Benchmarking Report 2009-2010

Balancing act. Early-career scientists discuss the challenges of juggling work and family life.

Weekly Roundup 8/10/12

This week's picks:

That Condescending Feeling You Get From Dudes in the Office? Yeah, That’s Real.

Having A Woman Boss Doesn't Help Women Get Ahead

Weekly Roundup 8/3/12

This week's picks:

If Marissa Mayer can 'have it all,' can you?

Fantasy, fairy tales, happy endings

Forget the Glass Ceiling, We Have Hemlines to Consider

Weekly Roundup 7/27/12

This week's picks:

Maternity leave? It's more like a pause.

Even Female Scientist-Doctors Are Paid Significantly Less Than Their Male Peers

Weekly roundup 7/20/12

This Week's Picks:

Elite Women Put a New Spin on an Old Debate

How Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem

This Is How You Acknowledge the Fact That You’re a Woman in Power

Weekly Roundup 7/13/12

This week's picks: 

All’s Not Fair in Science and Publishing

If You Don't Prioritize Your Life, Someone Else Will

How Stereotypes can Drive Women to Quit Science

Weekly Roundup 7/6/12

This week's picks:

Lipstick, the Recession and Evolutionary Psychology

How To Stop “Power” Lists From Angering Women and Making Men Defensive

The ‘Busy’ Trap

Weekly Update 6/29/12

This week's picks:

Do Gen X Women Choose Work Over Kids?

Anne-Marie Slaughter and the fiction of 'have-it-all' feminism

End the macho culture that turns women off science

Weekly Roundup 6/22/12

This week's picks:

New science boss attacks coalition over lack of top women in the lab

Is Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Really A Female Tech Pioneer?

Why women have no opinions.

Weekly Roundup 6/1/12

This week's picks:

Gender pay gap persists as women age


From the "Job articles" section:

The Best Way To Land A Job? Still Word Of Mouth

How to Ask For a Reference Letter

Weekly Roundup 5/25/12

This week's picks:

Women In The Boardroom

Lonely At The Top

Weekly Roundup 5/18/12

This week's picks:

Sexual Education. Author surveys 150 years of office gender politics.

Toolkit To Overcome Obstacles Facing Women In The Workforce

Weekly Roundup 5/11/12

This week's picks:

Do We Secretly Envy The Childfree?

Why Women Are The Worst Kind of Bullies

Weekly Roundup 5/4/12

This week's picks:

Why Are Young Women More Ambitious Than Men?

10 Most Powerful Women In Tech

Weekly Roundup 4/27/2012

This week's picks:

The "Bitch In The Boardroom" Stereotype: Women Speak Out About Success And Likability

Young Women Want it All, Perhaps More Than Young Men

Weekly Roundup 4/13/12

This week's picks:

Success in a Land Known for Disasters

Best Questions to Ask in Your Job Interview

Weekly Roundup 4/6/12

This week's picks:

Why Women Pay More

Why American Women Loose at Negotiation and What to Do About It

Weekly Roundup 3/30/12

This week's picks:

To Get More Women in the Boardroom, We Need More Men at Home

New Poll: Americans See Progress in a Closing Gender Gap; Women and Men Willingly Make Trade-Offs to Balance Work and Family Life

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Weekly Roundup 3/16/12

This week's picks:

How Sarah Blakely Dared to Ask "Why not?"

Cultural Constraints in Women Leadership

Weekly Roundup 3/9/12

This week's picks:

Is Motherhood the Biggest Reason for Academia Imbalance?

Job articles:

Should You tell Your Boss You Are Job Hunting?

Job Search Confidential: When to Tell Your Boss You’re Looking

Funding opportunity

NEUROSCIENCE SCHOLARS

The Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP) is a three-year fellowship administered by the Society for Neuroscience to enhance career development and professional networking opportunities for underrepresented minority undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in neuroscience. The program, funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, provides scholars with:
-Annual stipend for enrichment activities outside the scholar's home institution
-Support for and annual meeting travel expenses
-Access to annual meeting workshops, courses, and events
-Complimentary SfN meeting registration and abstract fee waivers
-Complimentary SfN membership and subscription to The Journal of Neuroscience online
-Mentoring

Other benefits include opportunities to network, expand professional contacts, and acquire professional skills.

Weekly Roundup 3/2/12

This week's picks:

Feminism, Now Stalled

It Isn't About Being a Woman in a Man's World

Job article:

Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions

Weekly Roudup 2/24/12

This week's picks:

Forget Networking. How to Be a Connector.

Women May Earn Less but They find their Work More Meaningful

Job article:

The resume feedback you need to hear that no one is telling you

Job opening

The California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2012-2013 California Science and Technology Policy Fellowships based in Sacramento.

The S&T Policy Fellowship, a unique one-year professional development opportunity, provides the selected fellows with hands-on experience working with the California Legislature to incorporate science and technology into public policy. Eligible applicants will be Ph.D.-level (or equivalent) scientists and engineers who have a sincere interest in California current events, the state legislative process, and a strong desire to learn how policy decisions are made.

Please forward this announcement to any individuals or group listservs that may be interested in this exciting opportunity. Deadline for submission of applications is February 29, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. PST. More information is available at http://fellows.ccst.us.

Weekly Roundup 2/17/12

This week's picks:

Survival Analysis of Faculty Retention in Science and Engineering by Gender

Can an App Really Close the Pay Gap Between Men and Women?

Women in the news:

From Favela to Petrobras CEO: Who is the "Iron Lady of Oil"

Weekly Roundup 2/10/12

This week's picks:

Climbing Through Medicine's Glass Ceiling

In Defense Of Sheryl Sandberg

Female Frontrunners

Weekly Roundup 2/3/12

This week's picks:

The Path to More Women in Senior Leadership: A User's Guide

New Goal For Women? Rising Above Having It All

Weekly Roundup 1/27/12

This Week's Picks:

Behind Every Great Woman

The Worst That Can Happen Is Someone Says No

Weekly Roundup 1/20/12

This week's picks:

Why Men Succeed: They Exaggerate Their Accomplishments Study Says

Female Lawyers Making Their Own Tracks To Success

Weekly Roundup 1/13/12

Seeking Female Founders In The Tech Startup World

Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few female leaders- Ted Talk

The likability problem

Women And Success

Weekly Roundup 1/06/12

Instead Of Work, Young Women Head to School

How (And Why) To Ask For More

Announcement from Professional Women's Nexus (PWN)

Dear PWN members,

Happy Holidays! We hope that you are enjoying the season.

Here is to a year filled with laughter, happiness, succes, love, and most importantly great health for you and your families. Happy 2012!

We Look forward to hearing/reading about all your new endeavors and accomplishments in the new year. Please keep us posted.

Our warmest wishes,

Courtney, Loly, and Ghazaleh