GDSE/RES - Gendered Pipelines? Sex Segregation in Engineering and Math/Computer Science Fields of Study

GDSE/RES - 性别管道？

• 批准号: 0332852
• 负责人: Maria Charles
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-10-01 至 2005-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0332852&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GDSE; RES; Gendered; Pipelines; Sex

In discussing women's under-representation in mathematics-intensive educational programs, social scientists often invoke the analogy of a (leaky) pipeline, focusing on the characteristics of individuals and their immediate social environments that promote or hinder successful passage through the science pipeline. The proposed research aims to supplement such individual-level analyses by considering the cultural and structural factors that constitute this pipeline's context and determine its contours. Aggregate-level data from 44 developed, developing, and transitional countries are employed to examine how cultural ideologies and features of national educational and economic systems are related to levels of female participation in engineering, mathematics and information technology fields of study.Intellectual Merit: Previous research by the PIs and others has identified cultural attitudes about gender roles as one of the most important determinants of cross-national variability in educational gender segregation. The current project aims to explicate these cultural effects. Detailed data on eighth-grade boys' and girls' math/science attitudes and math/science achievement in 44 countries, collected through the Third International Math and Science Surveys (TIMSS), allows evaluation and comparison of different explanatory mechanisms. In addition, structural determinants of sex segregation in higher education, including overall female enrollment rates, features of national higher education systems, female economic opportunities, and national economic development will be considered. The team, from University of California San Diego and Western Washington University, will employ a new log-linear modeling approach, which allows distributional patterns to be compared across educational systems characterized by different rates of overall female enrollment and different programmatic structures.Broader Impact: There is a growing consensus among researchers and educators that female under-representation in math and science cannot be understood with attention to individual-level attitudes and interests alone. If they are to fundamentally change the gender composition of these fields, policymakers must also attend to the role of broader cultural ideologies and organizational practices. Cross-national research of the sort proposed here is an excellent way of exploring effects of cultural and structural variables and of identifying the appropriate locus for policy efforts aimed at integrating these fields.

在讨论女性在科学密集型教育项目中的代表性不足时，社会科学家经常引用（泄漏）管道的类比，重点关注个人的特征及其直接的社会环境，促进或阻碍成功通过科学管道。拟议的研究旨在补充这种个人层面的分析，考虑构成这条管道的背景下，并确定其轮廓的文化和结构因素。采用了来自44个发达国家、发展中国家和转型期国家的总体数据，以研究文化意识形态和国家教育和经济体系的特点如何与女性参与工程、数学和信息技术研究领域的水平相关。PI和其他人以前的研究已经确定了对性别角色的文化态度是跨性别的最重要的决定因素之一。教育性别隔离的国家差异。本项目旨在阐明这些文化影响。 通过第三次国际数学和科学调查收集的关于44个国家八年级男女学生数学/科学态度和数学/科学成绩的详细数据，可以对不同的解释机制进行评价和比较。此外，还将考虑高等教育中性别隔离的结构性决定因素，包括女性总体入学率、国家高等教育系统的特点、女性的经济机会和国家经济发展。该团队来自加州圣地亚哥大学和西华盛顿大学，将采用一种新的对数线性建模方法，该方法允许比较不同教育系统的分布模式，这些系统的特征是女性总体入学率和不同的课程结构。更广泛的影响：研究人员和教育工作者越来越多地达成共识，女性在...数学和科学中的代表性不能仅仅通过关注个人层面的态度和兴趣来理解。如果要从根本上改变这些领域的性别构成，决策者还必须注意更广泛的文化意识形态和组织做法的作用。这里提出的跨国研究是探索文化和结构变量的影响以及确定旨在整合这些领域的政策努力的适当场所的一种很好的方式。