Professor Céline d’Orgeville. Photo: ANU
Professor Céline d'Orgeville. Photo: ANU - The largest women-only recruitment drive in the history of Australian Astronomy and Space is underway at The Australian National University (ANU). The Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC) is recruiting 10 new positions for people who identify as women to support the next generation of telescopes, small-scale space crafts and instruments for space missions. This includes the design and construction of large instruments like the 25-metre Giant Magellan Telescope. In Australia, Women make up only 28 per cent of the workforce in science, technology, engineering and math. But in Adaptive Optics - a field crucial to astronomical instruments and telescopes - the female participation rate is 15 per cent. There are currently eight women on staff at the AITC, out of a staff of 47.
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