VPW: Destitution and Gender: Strategies for Survival (Sociology)

数据集--一个主要是关于公共资助住房研究中的妇女的数据集，第二个关于主要是男性的“隐藏的无家可归者”的数据集，将由主办机构提供，并将被用来检查：1)男性和女性对贫困的反应如何不同；2)女性和男性用来在贫困中生存的策略的范围，这些策略之间的关系，它们的使用随时间的变化，以及它们对幸福的各个方面的影响。将使用适当的数据分析技术--包括定性和定量--来比较男女以及在不同的妇女群体之间进行比较。这项拟议的研究将考察面对贫困时的生存策略，特别是当它们受到性别的影响时。该项目进一步推动了VPW项目的目标，为女性提供通过研究提升她们在科学或工程领域的职业生涯的机会，并通过调查员作为东道主校园榜样的提高知名度，鼓励其他女性在这些领域追求职业生涯。为第二个目标作出贡献的拟议活动包括：与研究所正在进行的一个项目合作，为研究生举办研讨会，辅导研究生研究助理，与荣誉学院的本科生进行协商，以及向社会学系和校园内的其他单位举办讲座。

Data sets--one primarily on women in a study of publicly funded housing, and a second on the "hidden homeless," who are primarily men, will be provided by the host institution, and will be used to examine: 1) how men's and women's responses to destitution vary; and 2) the range of strategies women and men use to survive destitution, the relationship among those strategies, changes over time in their use, and their consequences for various aspects of well-being. Appropriate data analytic techniques--both qualitative and quantitative--will be used to compare women and men as well as to make comparisons among different groups of women. The proposed research will examine survival strategies in the face of destitution, especially as they are shaped by gender. This project furthers VPW program objectives to provide opportunities for women to advance their careers in science or engineering through research, and to encourage other women to pursue careers in these areas through the investigator's enhanced visibility as a role model on the host campus. The proposed activities which contribute to the second objective include: collaboration with an ongoing project at the Institute, a seminar for graduate students, mentoring individual graduate research assistants, consulting with undergraduates in the Honors College, as well as presenting talks to both the Department of Sociology and other units on campus.