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

9553439 Subramaniam这是一项研究和行动计划，旨在：(1)评估亚利桑那大学四个系的具体领域政策和做法，这些政策和做法影响到女研究生的招生、留住和晋升；(2)设计、实施和评估干预战略，以培养更具包容性的研究生经历。它包括在选定的实验室研究科学文化，让教职员工和研究生参与促进他们对研究生经历的不同看法的小组对话，向他们介绍关于性别和科学文化的文献，并与他们和部门行政部门合作，在实验室和部门一级设计和实施政策和做法的变化，以解决已发现的问题。参与单位包括分子和细胞生物学、化学、生态和进化生物学、数学系，以及西南妇女研究所的妇女科学和工程项目。与许多其他旨在解决在科学、数学和工程领域招聘、留住和提高妇女地位的项目不同的是，该项目侧重于改革机构，使其更好地响应女学生，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. ***