BPC-A: Collaborative Research: WWW.2, a Wide Web of Women

BPC-A：合作研究：WWW.2，妇女的广泛网络

• 批准号: 0940595
• 负责人: Gloria Townsend
• 金额: $ 48.81万
• 依托单位: DePauw University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0940595&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; Collaborative; Research; WWW.2; Wide

DePauw University with the collaboration of the Anita Borg Institute (ABI) and the University of Virginia, and in partnership with the ACM Women's Council (ACM-W) and the National Center for Women and IT (NCWIT), proposes to create self-sustaining, regional communities of women in computing. National-level activities, such as the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, have positively impacted thousands of women. They cannot, however, reach all women. In particular, national meetings have limited ability to recruit women from isolated areas of the country, to include women at institutions that cannot afford expensive and time-consuming travel to national meetings, to provide leadership roles, to encourage participation by high school students, and to support interactions that are frequent enough to spark and sustain collaborations among budding students and professionals. This project -- called WWW.2 for Wide Web of Women -- aims to overcome these impediments. The project will create twelve new and upgraded Regional Celebrations of Women in Computing that will bring students, faculty and indistry representatives together for biennial conferences. The conferences will increase women?s participation in computing through intentional role modeling, networking, group and indivudal career mentoring, providing career information, and oportunities for experiences in presenting their work. The attendees will be encouraged to continue their interactions between Celebrations, for example, by forming ACM-W student chapters, hosting multi-institutional get togethers, and maintaining connections through a wiki. Focusing on women (as well as regions) serves a population powerfully united by gender, yet diverse in experience, with personal stories varying by race, ethnicity, disability, and sexual orientation. This "Web of Women" will build momentum toward a tipping point of cultural change in stereotypes about gender and computing.

迪堡大学与安妮塔·博格研究所 (ABI) 和弗吉尼亚大学合作，并与 ACM 妇女委员会 (ACM-W) 和国家妇女与 IT 中心 (NCWIT) 合作，提议创建自我维持的计算机领域女性区域社区。格蕾丝·霍珀计算机界女性庆典等国家级活动对数千名女性产生了积极影响。然而，它们无法惠及所有女性。特别是，国家会议在招募来自该国偏远地区的妇女、将妇女纳入无法负担昂贵且耗时的旅行参加国家会议的机构、发挥领导作用、鼓励高中生参与以及支持足够频繁的互动以激发和维持崭露头角的学生和专业人士之间的合作方面的能力有限。这个名为 WWW.2 for Wide Web of Women 的项目旨在克服这些障碍。该项目将创建 12 个新的和升级的计算机领域女性区域庆典，将学生、教师和行业代表聚集在一起参加每两年一次的会议。这些会议将通过有意识的角色塑造、网络、团体和个人职业指导、提供职业信息以及展示其工作经验的机会，增加女性对计算的参与。我们将鼓励与会者在庆祝活动之间继续进行互动，例如，组建 ACM-W 学生分会、举办多机构聚会以及通过 wiki 保持联系。以女性（以及地区）为重点，服务于因性别而紧密团结、但经历多样化的人群，其个人故事因种族、民族、残疾和性取向而异。这个“女性网络”将为关于性别和计算的刻板印象的文化变革的转折点创造动力。