Study of Access of Women Scientists and Engineers to Research Careers

该提案要求获得一笔补充拨款，用于开展后续工作，以扩大目前由首席研究员进行的国家科学基金项目的研究结果。该项目的目的是研究未来女性科学家和工程师职业生涯中的一个重要过渡阶段——博士后阶段，在此期间，参与S&amp；E的情况会出现严重差异。这项研究包括了所有获得NSF和NRC博士后奖学金的女性。通过标准调查和分析方法获得的定量和定性数据用于更全面地描述现有壁垒，并制定和检验有助于指导减少这些壁垒的政策的假设。补充赠款申请的目的是进行深入的面对面访谈和管理后续问卷，作为整个项目的重要组成部分。

The proposal requests a supplementary grant to conduct follow-up work which would expand the findings of an NSF project currently being conducted by the principal investigator. The purpose of the project is to examine an important transition phase in the careers of future women scientists and engineers--the immediate postdoctoral period, during which a serious differential in participation in S&E occurs. The study includes the entire population of women whom received postdoctoral fellowships from NSF and NRC. Quantitative and qualitative data, obtained through standard survey and analysis methods, are used to provide a fuller description of the existing barriers, and to formulate and test hypotheses that can help guide policy for the reduction of these barriers. The purpose of the supplementary grant request is to conduct indepth, face-to-face interviews and administer a follow-up questionnaire, as important parts of the total project.