Empirical Research: Breaking through the Reputational Ceiling: Professional Networks as a Determinant of Advancement, Mobility, and Career Outcomes for Women and Minorities in STEM

实证研究：突破声誉天花板：专业网络是 STEM 领域女性和少数族裔进步、流动性和职业成果的决定因素

• 批准号: 0910191
• 负责人: Julia Melkers
• 金额: $ 118.2万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0910191&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Empirical; Research; Breaking; through; Reputational

The proposal addresses the characteristics and role of networks in career advancement, outcomes, and mentoring for women and underrepresented minority academic scientists in non-Research I institutions. The questions driving the research concern the structural and resource determinants of underrepresentation, career success and satisfaction of women and underrepresented minorities PhDs who have faculty appointments in Research II and Comprehensive institutions. The PIs propose to use OLS regression and structural equation modeling to answer research questions related to gender differences, relationships between network structure and outcomes, and the association of background characteristics on networks. The PIs will survey women and minority scientists in civil engineering, chemistry, physics and computer science. They will use event history analysis to study career trajectories from the curriculum vitae. To ensure limited bias, the PIs will compare characteristics of the respondents with the general population in terms of rank, gender, and field. Finally, another survey and interviews will target named mentees. The interviews will add an important qualitative dimension to the study.The study addresses significant questions about how women and minorities at Research II and Comprehensive institutions access and use professional networks and to what effect. The PIs state that the project can inform education policy as it continues to seek new mechanisms to encourage and foster greater representation of women and minorities in STEM fields. The findings would provide a more nuanced assessment of the complex interactive environment that creates structures and provides resources that are critical to the career trajectory of minority STEM faculty.

该提案讨论了网络在职业发展、成果以及对非研究机构中女性和代表性不足的少数族裔学术科学家的指导方面的特征和作用。 推动这项研究的问题涉及在研究二和综合机构中担任教职的女性和代表性不足的少数族裔博士的代表性不足、职业成功和满意度的结构和资源决定因素。 PI 建议使用 OLS 回归和结构方程建模来回答与性别差异、网络结构和结果之间的关系以及网络背景特征关联相关的研究问题。 PI 将调查土木工程、化学、物理和计算机科学领域的女性和少数族裔科学家。他们将使用事件历史分析来研究简历中的职业轨迹。为了确保有限的偏见，PI 将在排名、性别和领域方面将受访者的特征与一般人群进行比较。最后，另一项调查和访谈将针对指定的受训者。 访谈将为该研究增加一个重要的定性维度。该研究解决了有关研究二和综合机构中的女性和少数族裔如何访问和使用专业网络及其效果的重要问题。 PI 指出，该项目可以为教育政策提供信息，因为它继续寻求新的机制来鼓励和培养妇女和少数族裔在 STEM 领域的更大代表性。研究结果将为复杂的互动环境提供更细致的评估，该环境创建的结构并提供对少数 STEM 教师的职业轨迹至关重要的资源。