Weekly Roundup 12/23/11

This week's picks:

Feminism's Uneven Success

Why Do So Few Women Have Mentors?

Study: Multitasking Multistressful For Working Moms

Women in the news:

It was maternal, not political, says Italian MEP who took her baby to work

Weekly Roundup 12/16/11

This Week's Picks:

Why Women Leaders Need Self-Confidence

Why Some Women Are Burning Out At Work by 30

Working Moms Are Healthier, Happier, A Study Finds

Beyond The Maternal Wall: Relief For Family Caregivers Who Are Discriminated Against On The Job

Busting The Myth That Women Aren't As Ambitious As Men

Women In The News:

Libyan Women Battle For Empowerment

New job announcement

TENURED- OR TENURE-TRACK NEUROSCIENTIST

The Neuroscience Program in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) at the
University of Texas at Dallas seeks to fill a new tenured or tenure-track faculty position
in Neuroscience. See more about this job post here.

Weekly Roundup 12/09/11

This week's picks:

Margaret Klaw: Prince Charming

"Most Beautiful Woman" By Day, Inventor By Night

Economist Debates: Women and Work

The Economist Special Report: Women and Work-Closing the Gap

The Economist Special Report: Women and Work-The cashier and the carpenter

The Economist Special Report:Women and Work- A world of bluestockings

The Economist Special Report: Women and Work- Baby Blues

The Economist Special Report: Women and Work- Too many suits

The Economist Special Report: Women and Work-Women in China: The Sky's the Limit

The Economist Special Report: Women and Work-Looking ahead: Here's to the next half-century


Women in the news:

For Women In Libya, a Long Road to Rights

Bayer CropScience's Sandra Peterson: Successful Woman CEO Navigates in a Man's World


Job Articles:

Any Questions? What to Ask in an Interview

Weekly Roundup 11/25/11

This week's picks:

The war over sexist onesies

Paving a Way for Women in Brazil


From our new "Job Articles" tab:

Things to Consider Before Accepting a Job Offer

What to Avoid in Your Resume

How to Write a Cover Letter

How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose

Thank you for attending our 4th annual PWN meeting!

Our 4th annual PWN meeting was a success! A special thanks to Christa McIntyre and Alicia Brantley for sharing their experiences with the group. They started up a great discussion and we hope everyone takes the opportunity to continue it online at LinkedIn and on the PWN blog.

Stay tuned for details on our 5th annual meeting, to be held November 2012 in New Orleans.

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Please join us in welcoming our latest PWN members:

Rose-Marie Karlsson
Menglu Yuan
Katie Kopil
Bethany Bracken
Alexandra Wise
Erica Young
Karin Sorra
Juliet Knowles
Jenny Johannson

Ladies, we hope you find the group helpful and we're looking forward to hearing from you.

This brings our membership to 234! Thanks to all of you for sharing PWN with your friends and co-workers. We encourage you to connect to one another on LinkedIn.

If you are in the US, have a very happy Thanksgiving!


Courtney & Ghaz

Weekly Roundup 11/18/11

This week's picks:

Four Excellent Habits

Womanspace

Two new discussions posted by Stephanie Licata (thank you!) can be found in the discussion topics section. Click on the links to be rerouted to the PWN LinkedIn page where you can find the latest comments:

Question about statement of research interest

PWN in your resume or CV

Weekly Roundup 11/11/11

This week's picks:

Land of the Wasted Talent

Where the Women Are: Biology

Closing the Girl Gap in Science

At This Year's Women's Forum, Call For A New Type Of Leadership

To Get What You Want, ASK!

Invent your future

Do nice gals finish last?

Weekly Roundup 11/04/11

This week's picks:

Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, and Sexual Harassment

Women in the Workplace

The Income Disparity of Women in the Creative Class

Advantage: Women

LinkedIn Report: Women Without a Mentor

Women in the news:

More women in senate but seats are at risk

Weekly Roundup 10/28/11

If you are attending SfN this year, don't forget to e-mail us you poster/talk information to pw-nexus@hotmail.com so we can post it on our calendar!

This week's picks:

Penalties for success: reactions to women who succeed at male gender-typed tasks

Four Ways Women Stunt Their Careers Unintentionally

Knocked Up and Knocked Down. Why America's widening fertility class divide is a problem

Catalyst Study Explodes Myths About Why Women’s Careers Lag Men’s

Women in the news:

I.B.M. Names Virginia Rometty as New Chief Executive

Annual PWN meeting

Our Annual PWN Meeting is just a few weeks away!
Date: Monday, November 14th
Time: 4:30-6pm (right after the pm session)
Location: Zengo Restaurant, just a few blocks from the convention
center
781 Seventh Street NW, Chinatown, 20001
Tel. 202.393.2929
http://www.richardsandoval.com/zengodc/index.php
Happy Hour! $5 cocktails (Apps on us)

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If you'll be attending the meeting, please take a minute to email us with your talk or poster time and location so we can post it on the blog's calendar. Send your info to: pw-nexus@hotmail.com

And finally, keep sending us your successes so we can celebrate with you. New job? Promotion? Paper published? Project got a green light?

Have a beautiful weekend,
~ Ghazaleh, Loly and Courtney

Weekly Roundup 10/21/11

This week's picks:

Jill Abramson and the old problem of bitchy female bosses

The chance meeting with the VIP

For Women, Parity Is Still a Subtly Steep Climb

Who's better at self-promotion: men or women?

Women in the news:

Senegal Curbs a Bloody Rite for Girls and Women

Save the date!

We're a quickly growing group with 220 members spread all over the world! The only downside to this is that it's virtually impossible to meet in person. That being said, the best thing we can do is take advantage of a number of PWN members attending this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington DC. If you aren’t attending the meeting, but live in the area – please join us! We are still determining the location, but we'll gather at the same time as last year – Monday, November 14th immediately after the pm session. So please mark your calendars! More details to follow.
And speaking of calendars, our own PWN member and blog writer, Loly Rubio, has set up a beautiful calendar to post the time and location of talks and posters being presented at the meeting by PWN members. So if you’ll be there and are presenting, please email the following information to: pw-nexus@hotmail.com - Type (e.g. panel if it’s a session talk, poster, etc), date, time and location of presentation.
Thank you, and hope to see you all there!
Courtney&Ghazaleh

Weekly Roundup 10/14 /11

This week's pick:

My team isn't performing and I'm not the leader

Women in the news:

Iranian actress reportedly faces jail, lashing

Nobel Peace Prize honors African, Arab women

Listen to Susan Desmond-Hellman, chancellor at UCSF:

Weekly Roundup 10/7/11

Please click on the "Jobs/Funding" page for new opportunities.

This week's picks:

Sarah Palin's improbable gift to women

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg : Unedited

The White House and the National Science Foundation announce new workplace flexibility policies to support America's scientists and their families

Women, swearing and the workplace

Women in the news:

25 best paid women

Weekly Roundup 9/30/11

New picks this week:

"Secrets of an unflappable working mother"

Three new articles in our new "women in the news" page:

Whitman named new HP CEO

Women to vote in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Woman driving brought to trial

Listen to Nora Volkow, in charge of the National Institute of Drug Abuse:

Women in the news

Check out our new "women in the news" page, where we feature articles concerning women worldwide.

Calendar of events

We have added a "calendar of events" page. We will be uploading it with upcoming PWN events (described in the Events page) and any other relevant member event. If you are attending the SfN meeting and want your poster and/or talk information to be featured in our calendar please send us the information including date, time, place and/or poster row and number to: mailto:pw-nexus@hotmail.com
If you are organizing an event or would like us to feature an event concerning professional women, please send us a brief description about it together with the time, place and date and we will make sure to add it. 
Thank you!

Weekly Roundup 9/23/11

We have selected two new articles:

"10 commandments of dressing for work"

"Forget mentors--sponsors can help you soar at work"

Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Luncheon for women in neurosciences

Every year SfN hosts a luncheon exclusively for women, with invited speakers. If you are planning on attending SfN in Washington DC this year be sure to mark your calendars! This year’s meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 15, from Noon – 2:00pm. Click here to register and read more about it.

Weekly Roundup 9/9/11

We posted two new articles:

"Work-life balance is not a women's issue"

"The cure for people to hate to self-promote"

Weekly Roundup 9/2/11

We have posted two new articles in the "articles" section:

"Blueprint for a woman's life"

"Stand still when the hippos charge"

Controversial Article

Although we do not necessarily agree with her "blueprint" we thought this controversial article brings up some good discussion points:

Blueprint for a woman's life

Weekly Roundup 8/22/11

We posted 4 new articles in our "articles" section:

"4 skills that give women sustainable advantage over male"

"Bloomberg Discrimination-Suit Ruling Renews Work-Life Debate"

"Sex and power: why women are missing out on jobs"

"World's most powerful women"

Weekly Roundup 7/8/11

We posted 3 new articles:

"Issues facing women scientists in Asia"

"All male lineup yet again"

"Ladies it's not bragging. It's self promoting"

Weekly Roundup 1/06/12

This Week's Pick:

Instead Of Work, Young Women Head to School