Public Awareness of STEM and Advancing the Role of Women in STEM

公众对 STEM 的认识和提升女性在 STEM 中的作用

• 批准号: 1937849
• 负责人: John Falk
• 金额: $ 9.99万
• 依托单位: Institute for Learning Innovation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1937849&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Public; Awareness; STEM; Advancing; Role

This award supports a U.S.-Asia regional workshop on how best to enhance public awareness of science and technology and advance women's participation in STEM. The meeting will convene a group of approximately 30 invited scholars and experts from the fields of Science, Technology & Society (STS), Women in STEM, and Science Popularization from the U.S. and 9 South Asian and Southeast Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand). The meeting will utilize the wealth of data showing how STEM drives economic development and emphasize the growing appreciation that education in STEM must be targeted, not only to future STEM professionals in government and industry, but also to the general public. These developing Asian countries represent some of the most vibrant emerging economies in the world, and the U.S. can learn much from better understanding the opportunities and challenges these countries face in promoting STEM. Thus, this is a propitious time to gather information from them on how (and perhaps, whether), national STEM policies are affected by the public's awareness of STEM as a significant driver of economic growth. Also critical within these countries (and in the United States) are the challenges related to equity for women in STEM participation, employment, and leadership. This project will address the issue of advancement of women in the STEM education and workforce from a cross-national perspective. Through this interactive workshop, the project team will gather information on how the informal education and popularization of STEM may improve the participation of women in selected Asian countries as well as in the United States. It will address how to build a gender inclusive workforce that would lead to innovation much needed for both economic growth and social well-being. Drawing on lessons from data and experience, participants will craft suggested national and international strategies to promote public awareness and appreciation of STEM as important factors in economic development and societal well-being, with a particular focus on gender equity and inclusion. This Conference project will produce an up-to-date status report on issues of gender equity in STEM thorough a series of publications. Furthermore, this project will lead to establishment of partnerships within the STS and Science Popularization academic communities in Asian countries and the U.S. The proposed cross-national engagement will foster international research on gender in both the STEM workplace and marketplace. Finally, the hybrid approaches to professional conference facilitation explored at this meeting have the potential to significantly enhance how organizations across a variety of STEM disciplines might think about organizing and supporting professional collaboration and sharing in the future. Overall, this regional project is expected to trigger meaningful conversations and long term impacts on these issues among a large international group of scholars and practitioners. This project is jointly funded by the NSF programs in Science, Technology, and Society (STS), ADVANCE, and the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持了美国亚洲地区的区域研讨会，旨在如何最好地提高公众对科学和技术的认识，并提高妇女参与STEM的参与。这次会议将召集来自科学，技术与社会（STS），STEM的妇女的大约30个受邀的学者和专家，以及来自美国和9个南亚和东南亚国家的科学普及（孟加拉国，印度，印度尼西亚，马来西亚，尼泊尔，尼泊尔，巴基斯坦，新加坡，新加坡，Sri Lanka和Thailand）。会议将利用大量数据，表明STEM如何推动经济发展，并强调越来越多的人认为STEM中的教育必须是针对政府和行业中未来的STEM专业人员的目标，而且还针对公众。这些发展中的亚洲国家代表了世界上一些最有活力的新兴经济体，美国可以从更好地了解这些国家在促进STEM方面面临的机遇和挑战中学到很多。因此，这是从他们那里收集信息（也许是）国家STEM政策如何受到公众对STEM作为经济增长的重要驱动力的意识的影响的有机时间。在这些国家（和美国），在STEM参与，就业和领导层方面的公平挑战也是至关重要的。该项目将从跨国的角度解决妇女在STEM教育和劳动力方面的进步问题。通过这个互动研讨会，项目团队将收集有关STEM的非正式教育和普及如何改善妇女在选定的亚洲国家和美国的参与的信息。它将解决如何建立一个性别包容的劳动力，这将导致经济增长和社会福祉迫切需要创新。利用来自数据和经验的课程，参与者将制定建议的国家和国际战略，以促进公众对STEM的认识和对STEM的欣赏，这是经济发展和社会福祉的重要因素，特别关注性别平等和包容性。该会议项目将制定有关STEM中性别平等问题的最新状态报告，其中一系列出版物。此外，该项目将导致在亚洲国家和美国建立STS和科学普及学术社区内的合作伙伴关系。拟议的跨国参与将促进STEM工作场所和市场上有关性别的国际研究。最后，在本次会议上探讨的专业会议便利智能方法有可能大大增强各种STEM学科的组织如何考虑组织和支持未来的专业协作和共享。总体而言，该区域项目有望引发有意义的对话，并在大型国际学者和从业者中对这些问题产生长期影响。该项目由NSF科学，技术与社会（STS），Advance和International Science and Engineering（OISE）的办公室共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响审查标准通过评估来进行评估的。

项目成果

Impact of Socio-Economic Factors on Female Students’ Enrollments in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and Workplace Challenges in Bangladesh

社会经济因素对孟加拉国科学、技术、工程和数学专业女生入学率以及工作场所挑战的影响

• DOI: 10.1177/00027642221078517
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: American Behavioral Scientist
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Ahmed, Nova;Chowdhury, Arshad M.;Urmi, Tamanna;Jamal, Lafifa
• 通讯作者: Jamal, Lafifa

Without Role Models: A Few Pioneering Women Engineers in Asia

没有榜样：亚洲几位先锋女工程师

• DOI: 10.1177/00027642221078508
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: American Behavioral Scientist
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Chowdhury, Fahmida N.

Women in STEM in India: Understanding Challenges through Social Constructionist Perspective

• DOI: 10.1177/00027642221078518
• 发表时间: 2022-03-01
• 期刊: AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Gupta, Namrata

Being Asian American Women Scientists and Engineers in the United States: Intersection of Ethnicity and Gender

在美国成为亚裔美国女科学家和工程师：种族和性别的交叉点

• DOI: 10.1177/00027642221078510
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: American Behavioral Scientist
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Varma, Roli

Channelling Artscience Through Fan-Fiction for Diversifying STEM Approaches in Participatory Learning in Malaysia

通过同人小说引导艺术科学，使马来西亚参与式学习的 STEM 方法多样化

• DOI: 10.1177/00027642221078511
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: American Behavioral Scientist
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Lee, Clarissa Ai