Study of Access of Women Scientists and Engineers to Research Careers

比以往任何时候都更大比例的美国女性（包括 少数民族妇女和残疾妇女）将必须提供 在接下来的二十年里加入S/E劳动力队伍，如果只是为了 帮助阻止S/E劳动力总数的下降， 人口统计数据的基础。 一个重要的过渡阶段， 未来女性科学家/工程师的职业生涯是直接的 博士后时期，在此期间，一个严重的差异， 参与S/E。 以前试图了解 这种消耗只取得了部分成功。 因此我们 我们将采取重大努力（建立在我们的经验， 试点项目），对所有女科学家进行研究， 工程师，以及匹配的男性样本作为对照，所有的 曾获NSF博士后奖学金， 核管制委员会 定量和定性数据，通过 标准的调查和分析方法，将用于提供一个 更充分地说明现有的障碍， 测试命题，可以帮助指导政策， 改善或去除。

A larger proportion than ever before of American women (including minority women and disabled women) will have to become available to join the S/E workforce during the next two decades, if only to help stem the decline in the total S/E workforce now expected on the basis of demographic data. An important transition phase in the careers of future women scientists/engineers is the immediate postdoctoral period, during which a serious differential in participation in S/E occurs. Previous attempts to understand such attritions have been only partly successful. We therefore shall undertake a major effort (building on our experience with a pilot project) to study the whole population of women scientists/ engineers, as well as matched samples of men as control, all of whom in the past received Postdoctoral Fellowships from NSF and NRC. Quantitative and qualitative data, obtained through standard survey and analysis methods, will be used to provide a fuller description of the existing barriers, and to formulate and test propositions that can help guide policy for their amelioration or removal.