Introducing a new book club for NY Metro AWIS members
This book club will include monthly discussions of literature including biographies, poems about women in science and non-fiction topics relevant to women in science. Our discussions will be posted to our blog, where you can join the conversation.
Fifth Meeting: Saturday November 2, 2013, 12:00pm
Book: The End of Men and the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin
Rubin Museum Cafe at 150 W 17th St (between 6th and 7th Ave)
New York, NY 10011
Neighborhood: Flatiron
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/MetroNY-AWIS-Meetup-Group/events/137874492/
See what Hanna Rosin has to say about the new era in gender relations:
Rubin Museum Cafe at 150 W 17th St (between 6th and 7th Ave)
New York, NY 10011
Neighborhood: Flatiron
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/MetroNY-AWIS-Meetup-Group/events/137874492/
See what Hanna Rosin has to say about the new era in gender relations:
Fourth Meeting: Saturday August 3, 2013, 3pm
Book: What Happy Women Know
by Dan Baker and Kathy Greenburg
Rubin Museum Cafe at 150 W 17th St (between 6th and 7th Ave)
New York, NY 10011
Neighborhood: Flatiron
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/MetroNY-AWIS-Meetup-Group/events/125172032/
Brief Description:
If your job or relationships are bringing you down, and you are feeling a little blue, WHAT HAPPY WOMEN KNOW can teach you the secret to recapturing joy.
If you are like most women, you are great at making sure everyone around you is happy and your own happiness is an afterthought – if thought about at all. Now, it’s time to seize the satisfaction that is waiting for you. This book will show you how.
By providing tools and information that work specifically for women, WHAT HAPPY WOMEN KNOW will give you the skills to:
develop a greater sense of purpose
recapture a sense of adventure
re-connect with love and appreciation
achieve emotional well-being
Learn to look on the bright side and enjoy a richer, healthier, more fulfilling life!
Dan Baker, PhD, author of What Happy People Know and What Happy Companies Know, is a medical psychologist dedicated to the study of human behavior within an organizational setting. For the last 20 years, he has carried out his research in the perfect laboratory – the world-renowned Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona – where he was the founding director of the award winning Life Enhancement Program. Cathy Greenberg, PhD, co-author of What Happy Companies Know is an organizational consultant and executive coach. Ina Yalof is the author or co-author of 11 books and teaches writing for Dartmouth College’s ILEAD program.
by Dan Baker and Kathy Greenburg
Rubin Museum Cafe at 150 W 17th St (between 6th and 7th Ave)
New York, NY 10011
Neighborhood: Flatiron
RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/MetroNY-AWIS-Meetup-Group/events/125172032/
Brief Description:
If your job or relationships are bringing you down, and you are feeling a little blue, WHAT HAPPY WOMEN KNOW can teach you the secret to recapturing joy.
If you are like most women, you are great at making sure everyone around you is happy and your own happiness is an afterthought – if thought about at all. Now, it’s time to seize the satisfaction that is waiting for you. This book will show you how.
By providing tools and information that work specifically for women, WHAT HAPPY WOMEN KNOW will give you the skills to:
develop a greater sense of purpose
recapture a sense of adventure
re-connect with love and appreciation
achieve emotional well-being
Learn to look on the bright side and enjoy a richer, healthier, more fulfilling life!
Dan Baker, PhD, author of What Happy People Know and What Happy Companies Know, is a medical psychologist dedicated to the study of human behavior within an organizational setting. For the last 20 years, he has carried out his research in the perfect laboratory – the world-renowned Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona – where he was the founding director of the award winning Life Enhancement Program. Cathy Greenberg, PhD, co-author of What Happy Companies Know is an organizational consultant and executive coach. Ina Yalof is the author or co-author of 11 books and teaches writing for Dartmouth College’s ILEAD program.
Third Meeting: Saturday June 15, 2013, Noon
Book: Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Rubin Museum Cafe at 150 W 17th St (between 6th and 7th Ave)
New York, NY 10011
Neighborhood: Flatiron
http://www.rmanyc.org/pages/load/77
Can't read the book? Join us anyways! You can listen to Sheryl Sandberg's Ted Talk on How Women can Lean In here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders.html
Other Sheryl Sandberg Resources:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-NK28iM41bw
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=8fytVJE9-XI
Take this opportunity to read the book that is becoming a big part of the discussion of modern feminism with fellow NY AWIS Metro members.
Brief Description of Lean In:
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.
Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which became a phenomenon and has been viewed more than two million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.
New York, NY 10011
Neighborhood: Flatiron
http://www.rmanyc.org/pages/load/77
Can't read the book? Join us anyways! You can listen to Sheryl Sandberg's Ted Talk on How Women can Lean In here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders.html
Other Sheryl Sandberg Resources:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-NK28iM41bw
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=8fytVJE9-XI
Take this opportunity to read the book that is becoming a big part of the discussion of modern feminism with fellow NY AWIS Metro members.
Brief Description of Lean In:
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.
Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which became a phenomenon and has been viewed more than two million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto.
Second Meeting: Saturday May 11, 2013 at 10am
Book: The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
Think Coffee 248 Mercer St (between 3rd St & 4th St)
New York, NY 10012
Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
http://www.thinkcoffeenyc.com
Now a New York Times Bestseller!
THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY
AT THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians--many of them young women from small towns across the South--were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war--when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed.
Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it--women who are now in their eighties and nineties-- The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American history from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. Combining the grand-scale human drama of The Worst Hard Time with the intimate biography and often troubling science of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Girls of Atomic City is a lasting and important addition to our country's history.
New York, NY 10012
Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
http://www.thinkcoffeenyc.com
Now a New York Times Bestseller!
THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY
AT THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians--many of them young women from small towns across the South--were recruited to this secret city, enticed by solid wages and the promise of war-ending work. Kept very much in the dark, few would ever guess the true nature of the tasks they performed each day in the hulking factories in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. That is, until the end of the war--when Oak Ridge's secret was revealed.
Drawing on the voices of the women who lived it--women who are now in their eighties and nineties-- The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of American history from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. Combining the grand-scale human drama of The Worst Hard Time with the intimate biography and often troubling science of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Girls of Atomic City is a lasting and important addition to our country's history.
First meeting: Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 2:30pm
Book: Nobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Starbucks, Union Square, 41 Union Sq W
(between 16th St & 17th St) New York, NY 10003
Neighborhoods: Union Square, Flatiron
Our first book will be Nobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Publishers Weekly Commentary:
"Only nine of the more than 300 Nobel prizes awarded in science since 1901 have been won by women, notes science writer Bertsch as she sets the context for the biographical essays that follow. Examining the careers and lives of 14 women scientists "who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel winning project," she movingly depicts their battles against gender discrimination for recognition and respect and she describes the self-conflict about their roles. Subjects range from Marie Curie (1867-1934) to such contemporaries as Rosalyn Yalow, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1977 for her work as a medical physicist, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist credited, at the age of 24, with the 1968 discovery of pulsars, who made large personal sacrifices for her science. Bertsch introduces the small pantheon of women leaders in science whose careers and words offer advice and inspiration, if small comfort, to women in science today. "
(between 16th St & 17th St) New York, NY 10003
Neighborhoods: Union Square, Flatiron
Our first book will be Nobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Publishers Weekly Commentary:
"Only nine of the more than 300 Nobel prizes awarded in science since 1901 have been won by women, notes science writer Bertsch as she sets the context for the biographical essays that follow. Examining the careers and lives of 14 women scientists "who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel winning project," she movingly depicts their battles against gender discrimination for recognition and respect and she describes the self-conflict about their roles. Subjects range from Marie Curie (1867-1934) to such contemporaries as Rosalyn Yalow, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1977 for her work as a medical physicist, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist credited, at the age of 24, with the 1968 discovery of pulsars, who made large personal sacrifices for her science. Bertsch introduces the small pantheon of women leaders in science whose careers and words offer advice and inspiration, if small comfort, to women in science today. "