Women of the Future in the Royal Astronomical Society
arXiv:1612.01025 · doi:10.1093/astrogeo/atw219
Abstract
In this article we wonder what the next 100 years will bring for women in astronomy in the UK. After this year of looking back and celebrating 100 years of women in the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), we now ask: what might the future hold? Extrapolating current trends, when might we expect equality in the genders of RAS members, speakers at meetings, award winners and more? Ultimately, when might we stop needing to talk about women in astronomy at all - when it will be as irrelevant to the conversation about astronomy as being a male astronomer is?
5 pages, invited article in Astronom & Geophysics, 57 (2016)
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