Retention of Women Graduate Students and Early Career Academics in Science and Engineering

很少有针对理工科女性的学术干预计划关注研究生和初级教师。 然而，女博士生的自然减员率大大高于男博士生，在中小型和微型企业领域女教员的人数仍然很低。 研究表明，越来越多的女性希望从事科学和工程方面的学术事业，但由于性别化的组织模式和明显的微妙的歧视性的偏见等制度因素，在这些领域的经验问题。我们建议组织一个主要是中西部地区的会议，资助爱荷华州州立大学校园内的学院和大学，将妇女研究和其他对中小企业和技术培训中的妇女进行研究的人结合起来科学和工程领域的教师和研究生，为了交流研究生和女教师充分参与科学和工程领域的障碍的相关研究成果，并制定旨在留住女研究生和女教师的战略和行动计划，拟议会议的一个独特方面是，它旨在汇集科学家和女教师，两个研究小组很少相互交流，但可以相互学习很多东西，大约有20个学术机构的5-7人参加。 这些小组将接触到目前对中小型企业领域妇女的研究，交换信息，并合作开发在这些大学潜在的保留计划的想法。 每个小组都要为自己的机构制定一项行动计划，在随后的几个月里加以实施，并在一年后的一个后续论坛上就此提出报告。 会议记录和后续活动将在网上和印刷品中传播。

Very few academic intervention programs for women in science and engineering have foucsed on graduate students and junior faculty. Yet, attrition rates for women doctoral students are significantly higher than those for men and numbers of female faculty in SMET areas remain very low. Research indicates that women increasingly want to pursue academic careers in science and engineering, but experience prolbmes in these fields due to institutional factors such as gendered organization patterns and overt subtle discrininatory preactices.We propose to organize a primarily regional conference of Mid-western land-grant colleges and universities on the Iowa State University campus to bring together women's studies facutly and others doing research on women in SMET fields, and faculty and graduate students in science and engineering, in order to exchange relevant research findings on the barriers to graduate and faculty women's full participation in science and engineering fields and to develop strategies and action plans aimed at retaining women graduate students and facutly in science and engineering.A unique aspect of the proposed conference is that it aims to bring together scientists and women's studies scholars-two groups that seldom interact and yet have a great deal to learn from each other-in terms of 5-7 persons from about 20 academic institutions. These teams will be exposed to the current research on women ins SMET fields, exchange information, and work collaboratively to develop ideas for potential retention programs at theri universities. Each team will be expected to construct a plan of action for its own institution, to implement it in the successive months, and to report on it ata a follow up forum a year later. The proceedings of the conference and follow up activity will be disseminated on the web and in print.