Divergent trajectories: A longitudinal study of organizational and departmental factors leading to gender and race differences in STEM faculty advancement, pay, and persistence

加州大学圣地亚哥分校是一所专注于STEM学科的顶尖研究型大学。在目前拟议的项目中，该机构寻求对纵向社会科学研究实施多管齐下的方法，该研究将确定和分析妇女、少数群体和LGBT教职员工在STEM领域累积劣势的机制。两个主要的研究问题包括关注STEM教员特殊群体的不成比例的累积劣势，以及学科、系和个人层面的劣势是如何导致职业成就差异的。具体的方法工具将被用来促进这个项目，包括纵向小组调查，纵向薪资分析，薪资和生产率分析，以及对来自代表性不足群体的各种教师的访谈。智力价值建议的项目将研究女性、URM和LGBT教师在四年期间累积劣势的具体机制，目的是确定影响一系列结果变量(例如，薪酬、生产率、晋升)的个人、部门和纪律因素。累积劣势的概念已经通过计算机模拟和定性地进行了研究，但这项拟议的项目代表了第一次，主要是定量调查一个问题的核心，了解不同教员群体的情况。更广泛的影响加州大学圣地亚哥分校的项目建议审查STEM学术学科中女性、代表性不足的少数族裔和LGBT教师的累积劣势导致职业成就差异的影响。因此，该项目将对女性教员这一特殊群体产生广泛影响，她们在很大程度上没有得到先进社区的服务。这项研究是此类研究的第一次，如果成功，将从广泛的角度极大地促进对女性教职员工代表性不足的现有认识。

The University of California-San Diego is a premier research university with a focus on the STEM disciplines. In the current proposed project, the institution seeks to implement a multi-pronged approach toward a longitudinal social science study that will identify and analyze mechanism of cumulative disadvantage for women, minorities and LGBT faculty in the STEM fields. The two primary research questions include a focus on the disproportionate cumulative disadvantage of special populations of STEM faculty and on means by which disadvantages at the discipline, department and individual levels lead to disparities in career outcomes. Specific methodological tools that will be used to facilitate this project are longitudinal panel surveys, longitudinal salary analyses, salary and productivity analyses and interviews with various faculty from underrepresented groups.Intellectual Merit The proposed project will study the specific mechanisms of cumulative disadvantage for women, URM, and LGBT faculty across a four-year period with the goal of identifying individual, departmental, and disciplinary factors that influence a host of outcome variables (e.g., pay, productivity, advancement). The concept of cumulative disadvantage has been studied with computer simulations and qualitatively, but this proposed project represents the first, primarily quantitative investigation of an issue central to understanding the circumstances of various faculty groups. Broader Impact The University of California-San Diego project proposes to examine the impact of cumulative disadvantage for women, underrepresented minorities and LGBT faculty in the academic STEM disciplines that results in disparities in career outcomes. As such, the project will have a broad impact on special populations of women faculty who have been largely underserved by the ADVANCE community. This study represents the first of its kind and, if successful will contribute tremendously to advancing current knowledge regarding the underrepresentation of women faculty from a broad range of perspectives.