CAREER: Bridging the gender gap by investigating and counteracting the influence of gender brilliance stereotypes on girls’ STEM participation

职业：通过调查和抵消性别才华刻板印象对女孩参与 STEM 的影响来缩小性别差距

基本信息

批准号：
2145809
负责人：
Lin Bian
金额：
$ 83.64万
依托单位：
University of Chicago
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-09-01 至 2027-08-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2145809&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CAREER Bridging gender gap investigating

项目摘要

The increased demand for intellectual talent has highlighted the need for more female scientists, yet women are consistently underrepresented in the STEM domain. A pervading stereotype associating intellectual talent with men rather than women is a powerful cultural message that is in part responsible for this gender gap, termed the gender brilliance stereotype. This pernicious stereotype emerges early and immediately shapes children’s interests. To tackle this gender disparity from its developmental roots, this project will address three interrelated questions: (1) How do children internalize the gender brilliance stereotype? (2) How does the gender brilliance stereotype influence children’s, especially girls’, motivation? (3) What strategies can be developed to promote girls’ involvement in STEM? Findings from this research will transform understanding of the barriers posed on girls and lay a solid foundation for devising interventions to engage them in STEM. The project will also support graduate and undergraduate students in STEM education research and a course related to this research will be developed as part of the educational integration plan. Ultimately, this work will contribute to reducing gender inequalities. This research project is supported by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program, which supports work that advances fundamental research on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.Integrating experimental and longitudinal approaches, the project will focus on 5- to 7-year-old children and provide a comprehensive investigation of the gender brilliance stereotype. Specifically, this research will investigate the contextual factors contributing to children’s endorsement of the stereotype, with a focus on parenting practices and will explore three psychological mechanisms through which the stereotype shapes girls’ motivation. The research design includes a series of experiments, and analyses include correlational approaches and identifying causal links between environmental sources and gender stereotypes. Young students and their parents will engage in brief tasks and respond to questionnaires that probe their underlying assumptions about the role of gender in STEM. In addition, the researcher will develop a role-model intervention to alleviate the negative consequences of the stereotype, namely, the early gender imbalance in participation in STEM activities. This project will advance the state of knowledge about the early-emerging psychological processes that underpin women’s underrepresentation in STEM and beyond. It will also bridge research and education by yielding information for parents, teachers, and museum educators on how to reduce the gender brilliance stereotype and its negative impacts.This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).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.

对智力人才的需求增加凸显了对更稳定的女性科学家的需求，但女性在 STEM 领域的代表性不足，这种普遍存在的将智力人才与男性而非女性联系在一起的刻板印象是一种强有力的文化信息，也是造成这种性别差距的部分原因。这种有害的刻板印象很早就出现并立即影响了儿童的兴趣，为了从其发展根源解决这种性别差异，该项目将解决三个相互关联的问题：（1）儿童如何内化性别。 (2) 性别才华刻板印象如何影响儿童，尤其是女孩的动机？ (3) 可以制定哪些策略来促进女孩参与 STEM？并为制定干预措施让他们参与 STEM 奠定坚实的基础。该项目还将支持研究生和本科生进行 STEM 教育研究，并且最终将开发与这项研究相关的课程，作为教育整合计划的一部分。有助于减少该研究项目得到了 EHR 核心研究 (ECR) 计划的支持，该计划支持推进 STEM 学习和学习环境的基础研究、扩大 STEM 的参与以及 STEM 劳动力发展的工作。该项目结合了实验和纵向方法。该研究将重点关注 5 至 7 岁的儿童，对性别光彩刻板印象进行全面调查。刻板印象通过三种心理机制塑造女孩的动机。研究设计包括一系列实验和分析，包括相关方法和确定环境来源与性别刻板印象之间的因果关系。年轻学生及其父母将参与简短的任务并做出反应。此外，研究人员将制定角色模型干预措施，以减轻刻板印象的负面影响，即参与 STEM 活动的早期性别不平衡。推进有关早期出现的心理过程的知识水平该奖项还将通过为家长、教师和博物馆教育工作者提供有关如何减少性别才华的陈规定型观念及其负面影响的信息，在研究和教育之间架起桥梁。该奖项的全部或部分资金来自于该奖项。 2021 年美国救援计划法案（公法 117-2）。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。