Collaborative Research: Women in Science and Technology Policy

合作研究：科技政策中的女性

• 批准号: 1152980
• 负责人: Susan Cozzens
• 金额: $ 17.95万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-15 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1152980&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Women; Science; Technology

The work of science and technology (S&T) policymaking agencies in the United States is important to building knowledge and economic growth. These agencies make decisions about how to structure policies and programs for funding science and technology development, how to promote technology transfer and innovation, and how to use scientific and technical methods in federal regulation and oversight. This project investigates role that gender plays in the creation of science and technology policy through a study of women's careers in US federal policymaking. Research across the social sciences has investigated the advantages of including diverse perspectives in decision-making, including the perspectives of men and women leaders. While there is much research on women in science and women in management or government, there is little previous research on the role of women leaders in science and technology policy. This project explores new ground by providing both qualitative and quantitative measures of women's participation and influence on science and technology policy at the federal level. Data collection focuses on leadership in S&T policymaking agencies from 1992-2008. Products include a multiyear, multiagency dataset of women's careers in S&T policy at the federal level. The research informs understanding of organizational processes from theories at the intersection of multiple social science disciplines and areas, including: science and technology studies; sociology; political science; public policy; management science; and economics. For example, whether variation in the organizational structures of S&T agencies shapes women's participation in science and technology policy is a question of wide intellectual interest. To science policy studies, this work contributes important insights on how leaders at agencies that fund science view their respective roles in the knowledge production processes. Broader Impacts: Research funding is the lifeblood of science and engineering. This project contributes to our understanding of that vital role of S&T policymaking agencies by investigating the organization and leadership of federal level S&T policymaking agencies in the United States. Understanding how women leaders have contributed to the S&T policy agenda, how variation in the participation of women in different agencies has produced different outcomes, and what the anatomy of a healthy S&T policy sector looks like are important outcomes expected in this project. This project generates knowledge with practical implications for improving policy organization structures and practices, and a dataset that other researchers can use to investigate the relationship between gender and science policymaking.

美国科学技术（S＆T）政策机构的工作对于建立知识和经济增长很重要。这些机构就如何构建资金和技术发展的政策和计划做出决定，如何促进技术转移和创新以及如何在联邦法规和监督中使用科学和技术方法。该项目通过研究美国联邦政策制定中妇女职业的研究来调查性别在制定科学和技术政策中所发挥的作用。整个社会科学的研究都调查了在决策中包括各种观点的优势，包括男女领导人的观点。 尽管对管理或政府中妇女的妇女有很多研究，但对女性领导者在科学技术政策中的作用的研究很少。该项目通过在联邦一级提供妇女参与和对科学技术政策的影响的定性和定量措施来探讨新的基础。数据收集的重点是1992 - 2008年的S＆T政策制定机构的领导力。 产品包括在联邦一级的S＆T政策中妇女职业的多年，多方面的数据集。 该研究为多个社会科学学科和领域的交集中的理论提供了对组织过程的理解，包括：科学与技术研究；社会学;政治学；公共政策；管理科学；和经济学。例如，S＆T机构组织结构的变化是否塑造妇女参与科学技术政策是一个广泛的智力问题。对于科学政策研究，这项工作对资助科学的机构的领导者如何看待他们在知识生产过程中的作用有了重要的见解。更广泛的影响：研究资金是科学与工程的命脉。 该项目通过调查美国联邦一级S＆T政策制定机构的组织和领导地位，有助于我们理解S＆T政策制定机构的重要作用。了解女性领导人如何为S＆T政策议程做出贡献，如何在不同机构中妇女参与的差异产生不同的结果，以及健康的S＆T政策部门的解剖结构是该项目中预期的重要结果。 该项目产生知识，对改善政策组织结构和实践具有实际意义，以及其他研究人员可以用来调查性别与科学决策之间关系的数据集。