Cazadoras de Estrellas. Astronomy with a gender perspective
PosterEquity, Diversity and Inclusion in education
3rd Shaw-IAU Workshop
Tuesday Oct. 12, 2021
UTC: 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
, Thursday Oct. 14, 2021
UTC: noon - 1:30 p.m.
Victoria Perez
(Universidad de Chile)
Coauthors: Natalie Huerta (Scientific Journalist at DirVex FCFM, Universidad de Chile), Pía Cortés (Cazadoras de Estrellas), Daniela Barrientos (Cazadoras de Estrellas), Teresa Valdivia (Cazadoras de Estrellas), Antonia Fernández (Cazadoras de Estrellas), Jennifer Anguita (Cazadoras de Estrellas/Universidad de Chile), , Juanita Antilén (Cazadoras de Estrellas/Universidad de Chile), Magadalena Hamel (Cazadoras de Estrellas/Universidad de Chile)
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Cazadoras de Estrellas is an astronomy course for Chilean high school girls, founded in 2018 by female astronomy grad student at the U.Chile. In this course, the girls learn about the astronomy career, programming in Python, and most importantly, the role of women in Astronomy. We include specific moments to talk with them about women in science. We want them to know about our own journeys as astronomy students, and question their own interests and experiences.
In this presentation we want to share the importance of an explicit approach to gender problems in Astronomy Education, giving young women space to reflect about this and meet with young female scientists, helping them identify the main problems that women still face when deciding to be scientists.
Biography:
Victoria Perez is co-founder of Cazadoras de Estrellas" project, and also an Astronomy master student at University of Chile. Her scientific research interest is high redshift galaxies, but through her project she has also been involved with Women in Science research, and a lot of Astronomy Education experiences."
