MPWG: Apprenticeship Program for Women in Science as Applied to Public Policy

很少有人去了解为什么许多聪明、准备充分的年轻女性不认为这些领域是以人为本的。他们认为科学家是一个孤立的、遥远的研究人员，与概念打交道，而不是与人打交道。这个项目旨在改变这种对科学和数学的狭隘看法。我们的目标是展示这些领域，不仅作为令人兴奋的、改变我们看待世界方式的基础研究，而且作为影响我们生活方式的政策决策的基础知识。把科学家描绘成从事跨学科研究、容易确定政策影响的人，并表明他们不是孤立地工作，将有助于重塑科学的形象，并吸引更多的女性进入科学学科。该计划的形式包括对某些政策领域（如环境、法律、教育、刑事司法、信息学）至关重要的科学主题的研讨会课程。接下来是为期两个月的暑期研究学徒期，与专注于政策领域的科学家以及在校园、政府机构和华盛顿地区非营利性研究机构从事科学政策制定的科学家一起工作。参与者将主要从一年级的女学生中招募，她们在高中修过微积分，但没有表明她们打算主修数学或科学。

Little has been done to learn why many bright, well-prepared young women do not see the fields as people-oriented. Their vision of a scientist is as an isolated and remote researcher, dealing with concepts rather than with people. This project is designed to alter this narrow view of science and mathematics. The goal is to present these areas, not only as exciting, fundamental research that alters the way in which we see the world, but as essential knowledge on which to base policy decisions affecting the way we live. To present scientists as doing interdisciplinary research that has easily identified policy impact, and to show that they do not work in isolation, will help, recast the image of science and attract more women to its disciplines. The format of the program includes a seminar course on topics in science that are fundamental to certain policy areas (e.g., the environment, law, education, criminal justice, informatics. It will be followed by a two-months summer research apprenticeship, working with scientist who are focusing on policy areas, and with those engaged in the formulation of science policy-on campus and in government agencies an nonprofit research institutes in the Washington area. Participants would be recruited primarily from first year women students who have taken Advanced Placement calculus in high school but who have not indicated that they intend to major in mathematics or science.