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Nature Astronomy reveals. Astronomers have been leaders in gender equity initiatives, but our programs are not working fast enough, says professor Lisa Kewley, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D).
Kewley is also an ARC Laureate Fellow at the Australian National University s Research School for Astronomy and Astrophysics. She developed workforce forward modelling that can predict the fraction of women at all levels in astronomy from 2021 to 2060, given different initiatives in hiring or retention. The models show that Australia s university leadership need to adopt 50:50 or affirmative action hiring and introduce exit surveys and retention initiatives.
It will take until at least 2080 before women make up just one-third of Australia’s professional astronomers, unless there is a significant boost to how we nurture female researchers’ careers.
Over the past decade, astronomy has been rightly recognised as leading the push towards gender equity in the sciences. But my new modelling, published today in Nature Astronomy, shows it is not working fast enough.
The National Academy of Science’s decadal plan for astronomy in Australia proposes women should comprise one-third of the senior workforce by 2025.
It’s a worthy, if modest, target. However, with new data from the academy’s Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) program, I have modelled the effects of current hiring rates and practices and arrived at a depressing, if perhaps not surprising, conclusion. Without a change to the current mechanisms, it will take at least 60 years to reach that 30% level.
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Sydney student’s code snapped up by Amazon quantum researchers
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Dr Ben Brown of the University of Sydney with undergrad student Pablo Bonilla Ataides. Image: Marcus Strom/Sydney Uni
‘Remarkable’ research from a University of Sydney student could bring scientists one step closer to large-scale quantum computing.
A 21-year-old student in Australia has caught the attention of quantum researchers at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Yale.
Pablo Bonilla Ataides, a science undergraduate at the University of Sydney, tweaked some computing code in a way that effectively doubled its capacity to correct errors in quantum machines being designed in the emerging tech sector.