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一流的研究型大学，专注于STEM学科。在目前拟议的项目中，该机构寻求实施多管齐下的方法进行纵向社会科学研究，以确定和分析女性、少数族裔和LGBT教师在STEM领域的累积劣势机制。两个主要的研究问题包括关注STEM教师特殊人群的不成比例的累积劣势，以及学科、部门和个人层面的劣势如何导致职业成果的差异。将用于促进这一项目的具体方法工具是纵向小组调查、纵向工资分析、工资和生产力分析以及对来自代表性不足群体的各种教师的访谈。该项目将在四年的时间里研究女性、异性恋和LGBT教师累积劣势的具体机制，目标是确定影响一系列结果变量（如薪酬、生产力、晋升）的个人、部门和学科因素。累积劣势的概念已经通过计算机模拟和定性研究过，但这个提议的项目代表了对理解不同教师群体情况的核心问题的第一个主要的定量调查。加州大学圣地亚哥分校的项目提议研究STEM学科中女性、未被充分代表的少数族裔和LGBT教师的累积劣势对职业结果差异的影响。因此，该项目将对女性教师的特殊群体产生广泛影响，她们在很大程度上没有得到ADVANCE社区的服务。这项研究是同类研究中的第一个，如果成功，将从广泛的角度极大地促进当前关于女性教师代表性不足的知识。

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.