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首屈一指的研究型大学，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STEM领域女性，少数民族和LGBT教师的累积劣势机制。 两个主要的研究问题包括关注STEM教师的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导致职业成果差异的手段。 具体的方法工具，将用于促进这一项目是纵向小组调查，纵向工资分析，工资和生产力分析和采访各教师从代表性不足的群体。智力优点拟议的项目将研究的具体机制，累积不利的妇女，城市资源管理，和LGBT教师在四年的时间内，以确定个人，部门，以及影响大量结果变量的学科因素（例如，工资、生产力、晋升）。 累积不利的概念已经研究了计算机模拟和定性，但这个拟议的项目代表了第一个，主要是定量调查的一个问题的核心，以了解不同的教师群体的情况。 更广泛的影响加州大学圣地亚哥分校的项目建议研究在学术STEM学科中妇女，代表性不足的少数民族和LGBT教师的累积劣势的影响，导致职业成果的差异。 因此，该项目将对女教师的特殊群体产生广泛的影响，她们在很大程度上得不到ADVANCE社区的服务。 这项研究是同类研究中的第一项，如果成功，将极大地促进从广泛的角度了解女教师人数不足的问题。

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.