International Engagement and Broadening Participation in STEM from a Family-Friendly Perspective for Women of Color

从有色人种女性家庭友好的角度出发，国际参与和扩大 STEM 参与

• 批准号: 1449322
• 负责人: Renetta Tull
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 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 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1449322&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Engagement; Broadening; Participation; STEM

This project is examining the influence of career life balance on communities of color by supporting the participation of women researchers and advanced graduate students from underserved populations in an international experience in Latin American and a subsequent webinar series with international speakers to discuss the accompanying challenges and potential solutions for maintaining levels of career life balance. These activities will be accompanied by online discussions and wide dissemination. The Women researchers will be attending the July 2014 conference for the Latin and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The graduate students will be mentored by women who have a long-standing track record for mentoring graduate students from underrepresented groups. The participants will have opportunities to meet researchers from other underrepresented communities in Latin America. This conference will have sessions that will discuss career choices, life/work balance, and the impact of family and traditions on advancement decisions. In addition, the conference will provide opportunities to develop new collaborations with women in the STEM fields from the U.S. and different Latin American countries (e.g., Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina and Panama). Following the conference, a webinar series with blogged discussions will discuss career life balance based on research and experiences from experts who were invited to participate in the Gender Summit 3 North America in November 2013 which was co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and sister scientific organizations in Mexico, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Representatives from each of these countries will participate in the webinar series and blog discussions. The blog will include both online discussions via a website, and microblogging using Twitter. The webinar series will feature topics such as balancing work and family, how family decisions affect career advancement, and subconscious "imposterism" in the company of males at work and at home. Further, it will highlight the policies and best practices that are working for women in other countries such as equal pay for faculty at UNAM in Mexico, and findings from Europe?s genSET project. The webinars will also include co-host/discussants from the LSAMP community, who will bring their perspectives as mentors of next generation of underrepresented minority STEM researchers. Overall the project will contribute to understanding family commitments, family influence, and family challenges on the career decisions of researchers of color. We will examine child-care, eldercare, cultural contexts and perceptions of underrepresented minorities abroad, and the influence of male-dominated societies on current participants. Furthermore, the project will facilitate development of international collaborative relationships for students and faculty, an activity important to professional development and promotion. It will develop a structure that can enhance the international mobility of a generation of future STEM research communities of color, to increase their global influence and competitiveness. The online series will engage researchers to discuss ways to increase global engagement, and corresponding issues that affect career life balance.This project is co-funded by the International Science and Engineering Section, the Career Life Balance Initiative and the Division of Engineering Education and Centers Broadening Participation in Engineering Program.

该项目正在审查职业生活平衡对有色人种群体的影响，方法是支持来自服务不足人群的女性研究人员和高级研究生参加拉丁美洲的国际体验，并随后与国际发言者举行一系列网络研讨会，讨论随之而来的挑战和维持职业生活平衡水平的可能解决办法。这些活动将伴随着在线讨论和广泛传播。这些女研究人员将参加2014年7月在厄瓜多尔瓜亚基尔举行的拉丁美洲和加勒比工程机构联合会(LACCEI)会议。这些研究生将由女性指导，她们在指导来自代表性不足群体的研究生方面有着长期的记录。与会者将有机会会见来自拉丁美洲其他代表性不足社区的研究人员。这次会议将讨论职业选择、生活/工作的平衡，以及家庭和传统对晋升决策的影响。此外，会议还将提供机会，与来自美国和不同拉丁美洲国家(如墨西哥、秘鲁、厄瓜多尔、哥伦比亚、阿根廷和巴拿马)的妇女在STEM领域开展新的合作。会议结束后，将举行一系列网络研讨会，并在博客上进行讨论，讨论职业生活的平衡问题，这些专家受邀参加了2013年11月举行的北美性别问题首脑会议，该会议由国家科学基金会以及墨西哥、加拿大和英国的姐妹科学组织共同主办。这些国家的代表将参加系列网络研讨会和博客讨论。该博客将包括通过网站进行的在线讨论和使用Twitter的微博客。网络研讨会系列的主题包括平衡工作和家庭，家庭决定如何影响职业发展，以及在工作和家庭中有男性陪伴时潜意识中的“不检点”。此外，它还将突出其他国家为女性服务的政策和最佳做法，如墨西哥大学教师同工同酬，以及欧洲S基因集项目的发现。网络研讨会还将包括来自LSAMP社区的联合主持人/讨论者，他们将作为下一代代表性不足的少数族裔STEM研究人员的导师带来他们的观点。总体而言，该项目将有助于理解家庭承诺、家庭影响以及家庭对有色人种研究人员职业决策的挑战。我们将研究儿童保育、老年人护理、文化背景和对海外代表性不足的少数群体的看法，以及男性主导的社会对当前参与者的影响。此外，该项目还将促进学生和教师之间国际合作关系的发展，这是一项对专业发展和晋升非常重要的活动。它将开发一种结构，可以增强未来一代有色人种STEM研究社区的国际流动性，以增加他们的全球影响力和竞争力。在线系列将邀请研究人员讨论如何增加全球参与度，以及影响职业生活平衡的相应问题。该项目由国际科学和工程部、职业生活平衡倡议和工程教育部门和扩大工程项目参与中心共同资助。