Empirical Research: Breaking through the Reputational Ceiling: Professional Networks as a Determinant of Advancement, Mobility, and Career Outcomes for Women and Minorities in STEM

该提案涉及网络在职业发展、成果和指导非研究I机构中妇女和代表性不足的少数民族学术科学家方面的特点和作用。 推动研究的问题涉及代表性不足，职业成功和满意度的妇女和代表性不足的少数民族博士谁拥有在研究II和综合机构的教师任命的结构和资源的决定因素。PI建议使用OLS回归和结构方程模型来回答与性别差异、网络结构与结果之间的关系以及网络背景特征之间的关联相关的研究问题。 PI将调查土木工程、化学、物理和计算机科学领域的妇女和少数民族科学家。他们将使用事件历史分析来研究简历中的职业轨迹。为了确保有限的偏差，PI将在级别，性别和领域方面将受访者的特征与一般人群进行比较。最后，另一项调查和访谈将针对指定的学员。 访谈将为研究增加一个重要的质量层面，研究将解决关于研究二和综合机构中的妇女和少数民族如何进入和使用专业网络以及效果如何的重要问题。 PI指出，该项目可以为教育政策提供信息，因为它继续寻求新的机制，以鼓励和促进妇女和少数民族在STEM领域的更多代表性。这些发现将对复杂的互动环境进行更细致入微的评估，这种环境创造了结构，并提供了对少数STEM教师职业轨迹至关重要的资源。

The proposal addresses the characteristics and role of networks in career advancement, outcomes, and mentoring for women and underrepresented minority academic scientists in non-Research I institutions. The questions driving the research concern the structural and resource determinants of underrepresentation, career success and satisfaction of women and underrepresented minorities PhDs who have faculty appointments in Research II and Comprehensive institutions. The PIs propose to use OLS regression and structural equation modeling to answer research questions related to gender differences, relationships between network structure and outcomes, and the association of background characteristics on networks. The PIs will survey women and minority scientists in civil engineering, chemistry, physics and computer science. They will use event history analysis to study career trajectories from the curriculum vitae. To ensure limited bias, the PIs will compare characteristics of the respondents with the general population in terms of rank, gender, and field. Finally, another survey and interviews will target named mentees. The interviews will add an important qualitative dimension to the study.The study addresses significant questions about how women and minorities at Research II and Comprehensive institutions access and use professional networks and to what effect. The PIs state that the project can inform education policy as it continues to seek new mechanisms to encourage and foster greater representation of women and minorities in STEM fields. The findings would provide a more nuanced assessment of the complex interactive environment that creates structures and provides resources that are critical to the career trajectory of minority STEM faculty.