gseSpace: An Online Professional Networking Environment for the Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Community

智力优势：工程女性主动网络（WEPAN）提议创建一个名为“gseSpace”的在线专业网络环境，以满足致力于增加女性在科学和工程领域参与的人们的需求。gseSpace将利用WEPAN？美国国家科学基金会（NSF）项目“科学与工程中的性别研究”（GSE）支持了该项目，重点开展了外联、促进和传播活动。该项目将向公众提供WKC数据库中来自GSE社区的与赠款相关的持久文件。GSE社区包括社会科学研究人员、教育项目评估人员、教育工作者、从业者、政策分析师和关注代表性不足问题的专业协会。有了如此广泛的兴趣和观点，GSE社区成员之间的信息交流、相互启发和知识转移是具有挑战性的。摘要、文章和其他与会议相关的文档难以浏览，也不利于持续的交互。用于支持共享正在进行的工作、结果和专业网络的在线环境将创造更多的凝聚力，利用所获得的知识，扩大有前途的实践的经验，并通常增加与gse相关问题的可见性。gseSpace还将促进研究成果向实践的转移和转化。更广泛的影响：研究代表性不足的研究人员和其他相关方可以通过gseSpace提出的社区更好地维持、加强和帮助取得更大的成功。最终，我们的兴趣在于提高我们社会的科学和工程素养，导致更多的学生选择科学和工程职业，以及更多样化的劳动力和教师。该项目将为受资助者和潜在受资助者社区提供比目前更多的支持、互动、参与和沟通。

Intellectual Merit: The Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) proposes to create an online professional networking environment called "gseSpace" to serve the needs of people working to increase the participation of women in science and engineering. The gseSpace will leverage WEPAN?s Knowledge Center (WKC) with focused outreach, facilitation and dissemination activities targeted to those supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) program, Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE). This project will provide public access to enduring grant-related documents from the GSE community in the WKC database. The GSE community incorporates social science researchers, education program evaluators, educators, practitioners, policy analysts, and professional associations focused on the issue of underrepresentation. With such wide interests and perspectives, the exchange of information, mutual inspiration, and the transfer of knowledge between members of the GSE community is challenging. Abstracts, articles, and other conference-related documents are difficult to navigate and do not facilitate ongoing interaction. An online environment for supporting shared work-in-progress, results, and professional networking will create more cohesion, leverage knowledge gained, broaden experience with promising practices, and generally increase visibility of GSE-related issues. The gseSpace will also facilitate the transfer and translation of research into practice.Broader Impacts: Researchers and other interested parties studying underrepresentation can be better sustained, strengthened, and helped to greater success through a community such as that proposed by gseSpace. Ultimately, the interest lies in greater science and engineering literacy in our society, leading to more students choosing science and engineering careers, and a more diverse workforce and faculty. This project will offer the grantee and potential-grantee community more support, interaction, engagement and communication than currently available.