Professional Skills Development Workshops

专业技能发展研讨会

• 批准号: 1419913
• 负责人: Sherry Yennello
• 金额: $ 41.17万
• 依托单位: American Physical Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1419913&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Professional; Skills; Development; Workshops

Women now occupy approximately half of all seats in high school physics classrooms, but fewer than one in four undergraduate physics degrees are awarded to women. Worse still, only eight percent of full professors in physics faculty positions are women. Women physicists often do not receive the same level of support and mentoring throughout the various stages of their careers that men do, even if they do not experience overt discrimination. Many small but subtle acts of omission together with the isolation that comes from small numbers frequently add up to create a playing field that is far from level in terms of career advancement for women. The American Physical Society (APS) has run, for nine years, a series of influential workshops designed to improve communication, negotiation and leadership skills of female physicists. This award seeks to evolve these workshops into a sustainable model that will reach many more women.This award will fund a continuation of the original workshops that also offers two new aspects: (1) training physicists as negotiation skills workshop facilitators who can conduct the Strategic Persuasion Seminars (SPS) at their institutions and at scientific conferences and (2) offering the traditional workshops on communication, negotiation and leadership skills at the larger APS divisional meetings. Information will be learned about what is of particular benefit to women in physics. Additionally the project will compare the impact of the workshops - delivered by the professional facilitators to the impact of the seminars - delivered by the physicists trained by the professional facilitators.

现在，在高中物理教室里，女性占据了大约一半的席位，但只有不到四分之一的本科物理学位授予女性。更糟糕的是，只有8%的物理学教授是女性。 女性物理学家在其职业生涯的各个阶段往往得不到与男性相同水平的支持和指导，即使她们没有受到明显的歧视。许多微小但微妙的疏忽行为，加上人数少而造成的孤立，往往造成妇女职业发展的竞争环境远远不够。美国物理学会（APS）已经运行了九年，一系列有影响力的研讨会，旨在提高女物理学家的沟通，谈判和领导能力。 该奖项旨在将这些讲习班发展成为一个可持续的模式，将接触到更多的妇女。该奖项将资助继续原来的讲习班，也提供了两个新的方面：（1）培训物理学家作为谈判技巧研讨会的主持人，他们可以在他们的机构和科学会议上进行战略说服研讨会（SPS），（2）提供传统的沟通研讨会，在大型APS部门会议上的谈判和领导技能。将了解什么是特别有利于妇女在物理学的信息。此外，该项目将比较由专业主持人提供的讲习班的影响和由专业主持人培训的物理学家提供的研讨会的影响。