A Workshop to Address Underrepresentation of Women Faculty in Nanotechnology

该奖项为华盛顿大学（UW）的劳动力发展中心（CWD）提供资金，以开展开创性的NSF研讨会，以解决女性教师在纳米技术/纳米科学（NT/NS）中代表性不足的问题。 该研讨会将于2010年9月在华盛顿，华盛顿特区的美国科学促进协会总部举行，由Suzanne G.布雷纳德 所有种族的女性教师在STEM领域的代表性仍然非常不足，许多美国大学STEM系的教师中根本没有少数民族女性。 作为一个新兴的，资金充足的跨STEM学科的研究领域，NT/NS提供了一个机会，（1）评估妇女在这个新兴领域的代表性，（2）调查影响不同妇女群体的教育和职业道路的各种因素从各种STEM领域到NT/NS的前沿和跨学科领域。 CWD建议组织和举办一个研讨会，将社会科学家，科学家和工程师聚集在一起，讨论这些女科学家和工程师面临的障碍，制定有效战略的建议，招募和推动妇女进入纳米技术的STEM教师，并发展纳米技术的女教师网络，以鼓励跨机构合作。

This award provides funding to the Center for Workforce Development (CWD) at the University of Washington (UW) to conduct a path-breaking NSF Workshop to address the underrepresentation of women faculty in nanotech/nanoscience (NT/NS). The workshop will be held at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) headquarters in Washington, D.C. in September 2010 and will be under the direction of Dr. Suzanne G. Brainard. Women faculty of all ethnicities continue to be exceedingly underrepresented in STEM fields, with many U.S. university STEM departments having no minority women on their faculty at all. As an emerging, well-funded area of research that cuts across STEM disciplines, NT/NS provides an opportunity to (1) assess the representation of women in this emerging field and (2) investigate the various factors that influenced the educational and career pathways of different groups of women from a variety of STEM fields into the cutting-edge and cross-disciplinary area of NT/NS. The CWD proposes to organize and conduct a workshop to bring together social scientists, scientists and engineers to discuss the obstacles these women scientists and engineers face, to develop recommendations for effective strategies to recruit and advance women into STEM faculty in nanotechnology, and to develop a network of women faculty in nanotechology to encourage cross-institutional collaboration.