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，另一个主要是关于“隐藏的无家可归者”的数据集，主要是男性，将由主办机构提供，并将用于研究：1)男性和女性对贫困的反应如何不同；2)女性和男性在贫困中生存的策略范围，这些策略之间的关系，随着时间的推移而变化，以及它们对幸福的各个方面的影响。将使用适当的定性和定量数据分析技术来比较妇女和男子，并在不同的妇女群体之间进行比较。拟议的研究将审查面对贫困的生存策略，特别是因为它们是由性别决定的。该项目进一步推进了VPW项目的目标，即通过研究为女性提供在科学或工程领域发展的机会，并通过研究者在主办校园中作为榜样的知名度提高，鼓励其他女性在这些领域追求职业。有助于实现第二个目标的拟议活动包括：与研究所正在进行的一个项目合作、为研究生举办研讨会、指导个别研究生研究助理、向荣誉学院的本科生提供咨询、以及向社会学系和校园其他单位发表演讲。

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.