Women In Technology - Friday Links - 10/10/2023
Dear WIT Friends,
this is our selection of Friday links:
World mental health Day 10th of October
In many cases, mental health is underestimated or not taken as seriously as the physical health leading to significant issues for our overall health and well-being.
The new fast pace of life has caused an increase in anxiety issues and the feeling of missing out.
It is a challenge for everyone to maintain a balance between a peaceful, stress-free life and the increasing demands.
The HSE department offers dedicated workshops for mental health support in order to help us to identify and manage the stress levels:
https://hse.cern/content/mental-health-support
Related Links:
- Anxiety Symptoms in Women: https://www.caron.org/blog/anxiety-symptoms-in-women
- Gender Differences in the Neurobiology of Anxiety: Focus on Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4738969/
- Our Minds, our rights: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day/2023
- Chronic stress levels 40% higher in full-time working women with children, but flexible work reduces stress: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/news/2019/01/26/chronic-stress-levels-40-higher-in-full-time-working-women-with-children-but-flexible-work-reduces-stress
Links:
- Congratulations to Claudia Goldin, who has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for her research advancing our understanding of women’s work force participation.
Goldin is the third woman, and the first female solo-winner, to be honored with the Prize
Her research illustrates how the process of closing the wage gap has been uneven throughout the course of history, changing in line with social norms and women’s own expectations about their career prospects and roles at home. One of the most significant findings Goldin uncovered in her research is that differences in pay and labour force participation cannot be attributed to biological differences, but to the division of unpaid caregiving and household labour between heterosexual couples.
“We are never going to have gender equality, or narrow the pay gap, until we have couple’s equity,” says Goldin.
Read more HERE.
- Why the ‘Mother of the Atomic Bomb’ Never Won a Nobel Prize: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/lise-meitner-fission-nobel.html
Upcoming Events:
Don't miss the upcoming events:
- Immunity to change - Shift the Paradigm
MicroTalk on "Immunity to change - Shift the Paradigm" on the 19th of October at 14:00.
`Have you ever experienced this: in certain areas of your life, be that work or private life, you have been successfully able to show discipline, develop yourself and implement changes very fast.
However, in some other areas, you are very clear about what you would like to change and you are giving your 100% to implement it: and yet you don’t manage to do it consistently, you simply keep on doing what you always did and your old patterns seem to be hard to overcome?`
Indico Event: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1279669/
- WIT Talk With Connie Potter:
We will have the chance to interview Connie Potter who is a long-standing CERN staff member with a BSc (Hons) in International Studies and shares her work time between the CERN Communications group and the ATLAS experiment where her 30 years long experience in conference and event organisation and immersion in a world of physicists have led to ground-breaking projects in science communication for CERN.
If you want to learn more about Connie and her work, don't miss our WIT talk on Monday 30th of October at 11:00 in 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN).
Indico Event: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1298872/
- Instagram Live:
Are you in the midst of your academic journey, either as a #Bachelor's or #Master's student, and curious about the awesome possibilities awaiting you at CERN?
Wondering what it takes to join this remarkable hub of scientific innovation?
Well, we've got you covered!
Join us for an engaging Instagram Live session where we'll be chatting with Barbara Binder from the CERN Talent Acquisition team. She'll be spilling the beans on the CERN Technical and Administrative Student Programme, which is currently OPEN for applications.
Mark your calendars for Wednesday, October 18, at 17:00 CET. 🕔 We'll be live and ready to answer all your burning questions!
https://www.instagram.com/wit.cern/
- Paternity Leave Roundtable:
WIT would like to raise awareness about the need to improve paternity leave conditions. The goal of the roundtable is to learn about paternity leave in the world and at CERN today, listen to four colleagues who will share with us their experiences and choices regarding paternity leave, and open the floor for exchange and discussion with our community.
Date: 7th of November at 12:15-13:15
Location: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)
Indico Event: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1299527/
Wishing you all a great weekend,
Florentia on behalf of WIT steering committee.
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