Improving Retention and Facilitating Career Reentry for Women Scientists with a Consortium of Universities

与大学联盟一起提高女科学家的保留率并促进其重返职业生涯

• 批准号: 1310757
• 负责人: John Dovidio
• 金额: $ 37.41万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1310757&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Retention; Facilitating; Career; Reentry

This project uses a several-pronged approach, focusing on the postdoctoral community where attrition is both substantial and gendered, in order to assess ways to increase the retention of women scientists in the academic work force. First, better information about why postdocs drop out will help us target policies more effectively. In most research universities, postdocs do not come under the watchful eyes of deans and provosts because they are neither graduate students nor faculty. Given the importance of postdoctoral training for scientific careers, this neglect has become a structural problem for women who are dropping out at a fast clip. Second, we will develop MentorSTEM into an effective and feasible way for universities to provide systematic mentoring to postdocs, beginning with women postdocs. Our experimental design allows us to ?learn by doing,? to improve mentoring content and delivery based on regular and repeated evaluation of the scholarly success and morale of those being mentored. A variety of mentoring types will be used and tested for effectiveness at retaining the postdocs in the academic work force. Over the course of this program, we will develop and test a variety of ways to support these postdocs, as well as those who are mentoring them, to achieve scholarly excellence.In the longer run, we gain from this project ways to improve both the quality of life and the quality of scholarship for the entire scientific community. Our commitment to diversity rests on the conviction that knowledge flourishes best when there are no barriers to entry. We are eager to build an environment in which all members of the academic community can grow and flourish as scholars, and in which men and women alike can balance family and career. Failure to remove obstacles to success, now unevenly in the paths of women and minority scholars, places an unacceptable tax on the possibilities for scientific excellence.

该项目采用多管齐下的办法，重点关注自然减员现象严重且存在性别差异的博士后群体，以评估如何增加女科学家在学术工作队伍中的留用率。首先，更好地了解博士后辍学的原因将有助于我们更有效地制定政策。在大多数研究型大学，博士后不受院长和教务长的监督，因为他们既不是研究生，也不是教员。鉴于博士后培训对科学事业的重要性，这种忽视已经成为女性快速辍学的结构性问题。第二，我们将把MentorSTEM发展成为大学为博士后提供系统指导的有效和可行的方式，从女性博士后开始。我们的实验设计可以让我们？边做边学？根据对受指导者的学术成就和士气的定期和反复评估，改进指导内容和交付。 各种类型的指导将被使用和测试的有效性，在保留博士后在学术工作队伍。 在这个项目的过程中，我们将开发和测试各种方法来支持这些博士后，以及那些指导他们的人，以实现学术卓越。从长远来看，我们从这个项目中获得的方法，以提高整个科学界的生活质量和学术质量。我们对多样性的承诺基于这样一个信念，即当没有进入障碍时，知识是最好的。我们渴望建立一个环境，使学术界的所有成员都能作为学者成长和繁荣，并且男性和女性都能平衡家庭和事业。未能消除成功的障碍，现在在妇女和少数民族学者的道路上不平衡，对科学卓越的可能性施加了不可接受的负担。