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

在科学和工程领域，针对女性的学术干预项目很少关注研究生和初级教师。然而，女博士生的流失率明显高于男博士生，SMET领域的女教师数量仍然很低。研究表明，越来越多的女性希望在科学和工程领域从事学术事业，但由于性别组织模式和明显的微妙歧视行为等制度因素，她们在这些领域遇到了问题。我们提议在爱荷华州立大学校园内组织一个主要由中西部赠地学院和大学组成的区域性会议，将从事女性研究的教师和其他从事SMET领域女性研究的人员、科学和工程领域的教师和研究生聚集在一起，为了交流关于研究生和教员妇女充分参与科学和工程领域的障碍的有关研究结果，并制定旨在保留科学和工程领域的女研究生和教员的战略和行动计划。这次会议的一个独特之处在于，它旨在召集来自大约20个学术机构的5-7名科学家和妇女研究学者——这两个群体很少互动，但却有很多东西可以相互学习。这些团队将接触到关于女性在SMET领域的最新研究，交流信息，并协同工作，为各自大学的潜在保留项目开发想法。每个小组都要为自己的机构制订一项行动计划，在连续几个月内加以执行，并在一年后的后续论坛上就此提出报告。会议的会议记录和后续活动将在网上和印刷品上传播。

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.