IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics August 2014 in Waterloo, Canada, August 5-8, 2014

无论是在国内还是在国际上，妇女在物理学和工程学等相关领域的代表性都严重不足。这些领域必须能够利用全世界的人才，以满足科学，技术，工程和数学的需求，以满足全球需求。为此，美国物理教师协会的这一奖项支持美国代表团参加在加拿大滑铁卢举行的第五届国际物理学妇女会议。会议的总体目标是提供一个国际机会，分析在国际上促进妇女参与物理学的现状和进展;为国际妇女参与物理学提供一个竞技场，分享她们的科学成就，促进国际研究合作;并在每个参与国进行能力建设，以设计和实施变革，增加物理学领域的妇女人数并提高她们的地位。美国国家科学基金会的国际科学和工程科共同资助了这项活动，因为国际活动及其对物理学领域妇女的预期更广泛的影响。美国代表团将通过其在性别、种族/民族、残疾状况、研究专业、职业阶段和道路、就业部门和机构类型以及地理位置方面的多样性来扩大参与。通过这一活动获得的战略和见解预计将对妇女任职人数严重不足的其他领域有用。该项目将参考美国物理研究所统计研究中心进行的评估。

Both nationally and internationally, women are greatly underrepresented in physics and related fields such as engineering. These fields have to be able to draw upon the full spectrum of the world's talent in order to meet the demands in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in addressing global needs. To this end, this award to the American Association of Physics Teachers supports the United States delegation to the Fifth International Conference of Women in Physics in Waterloo, Canada. The overarching goals of the conference are to provide an international opportunity for analysis of the current status of and progress in promoting women in physics internationally; to provide an arena for international women in physics to share their scientific accomplishments and nucleate international research collaborations; and to build capacity in each participating country to design and implement changes that improve the numbers of and the advancement of women in physics. The International Science and Engineering Section at the National Science Foundation co-funded this activity because of the international activities and their expected broader impacts for women in physics.The U.S. delegation will broaden participation through its diversity with regard to gender, race/ethnicity, disability status, research specialty, career phase and path, employment sector and institution type, and geographic location. The strategies and insights gained through this activity are expected to be useful in other fields where women are severely underrepresented. Outreach and dissemination will maximize the benefit of the conference in the U.S. The project will be informed by an evaluation conducted by the Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics.