MPWG: Breaking the Silences: A Faculty-Student Action Project for Graduate Women in Science and Mathematics

小行星9553439 这是一个研究和行动计划，即：（1）评估在亚利桑那大学的四个部门的具体领域的政策和做法，对女性研究生的招聘，保留和晋升的冲击，和（2）设计，实施和评估干预策略，以促进更具包容性的研究生经验。 它涉及在选定的实验室对科学文化的研究，使教师和研究生参与促进小组对话，讨论他们对研究生经历的不同看法;向他们介绍关于性别和科学文化的文献;和他们一起工作，并与部门行政当局合作，设计和实施实验室和部门层面的政策和做法改革，已经发现的问题。 参与单位包括分子和细胞生物学系、化学系、生态学和进化生物学系、数学系以及西南妇女问题研究所的妇女参与科学和工程方案。 与许多其他旨在解决科学、数学和工程领域妇女的征聘、保留和提高问题的项目不同，该项目侧重于改变机构，使其更适应女学生的需要，而不是指导妇女如何适应现有的机构政策和做法。 该项目将在两个学年和其间的夏季进行。 ***

9553439 Subramaniam This is a research and action program that: (1) assesses the field-specific policies and practices in four departments at the University of Arizona that impinge on the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women graduate students, and (2) designs, implements, and evaluates intervention strategies to foster a more inclusive graduate experience. It involves research on the culture of science in a selection of labs, engages faculty and graduate students in facilitated small-group dialogue about their differing perceptions of the graduate experience; introduces them to literature on gender and the culture of science; and works with them, and with departmental administrations to design and implement changes in policies and practices at the laboratory and departmental levels to address problems that have been identified. Participating units include the Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Chemistry, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Mathematics, and the Women in Science and Engineering Program of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women. In contrast to many other projects designed to address the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering, the project focuses on changing institutions to be more responsive to women students, rather than instructing women in ways to accommodate to existing institutional policies and practices. The project will be carried out over two academic years and the intervening summer. ***