EAGER: Celebrating the successes and identifying the obstacles faced by innovative and entrepreneurial underrepresented women of color

EAGER：庆祝成功并找出创新和创业型少数族裔女性所面临的障碍

• 批准号: 1943964
• 负责人: Thema Monroe-White
• 金额: $ 29.5万
• 依托单位: Berry College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1943964&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Celebrating; successes; identifying; obstacles

This EAGER award conducts exploratory research on the successes and obstacles faced by innovative and entrepreneurial women of color in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). Situated within the intersectionality framework, this research will be conducted via in-depth interviews and focus groups with Underrepresented Women of Color (URWOC) innovators and entrepreneurs. This research defines Women of Color as those women who identify as African-American/Black, Latinx/Hispanic/Chicana, and Indigenous/Native Alaskan/ Native Hawaiian to better understand: (1) the background of URWOC founders and how they became interested in starting a STEM venture; 2) the strategies that URWOC owner/founders employed to start and persist in their ventures/innovations, choose to license, or sell their ventures/innovations; 3) similarities and differences in intersectionality across URWOC groups who are engaged in STEM innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E); 4) the unique experiences and challenges that URWOC endure in their I&E endeavors and 5) how to increase the number of URWOC in I&E with a focus on providing assistance to national initiatives aimed at diversifying underrepresented groups in I&E. This research will support the creation of theoretically robust yet practical frameworks for understanding the experiences of URWOC innovators and entrepreneurs in STEM. In turn, these insights will be used to integrate research with practice via the creation of outcomes that have the potential to engage a variety of stakeholders in co-creating solutions focused on increasing the number of URWOC in STEM Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E).This research project fills an important gap in synthesizing the literature on intersectionality and entrepreneurship and innovation in STEM for URWOCs and documenting the historical changes of the composition of URWOC in STEM I&E across the nation. Findings will inform and connect to more robust investigations of how key factors impact URWOC who are engaging in unique experiences that enable their success and enhance their ability to overcome typical issues of race, class, and gender oppression for URWOC in STEM I&E. Research findings will provide critical information for use by STEM education and STEM entrepreneurship researchers, stakeholders, and leadership n STEM in policy formation, assessment of the progress of diversity initiatives toward building a vibrant and robust community of URWOC.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

EAGER奖对有色人种创新和创业女性在STEM（科学，技术，工程，数学）方面所面临的成功和障碍进行了探索性研究。 位于交叉性框架内，这项研究将通过深入访谈和焦点小组与有色人种（URWOC）创新者和企业家的代表性不足的妇女进行。这项研究将有色人种女性定义为那些认同为非裔美国人/黑人，拉丁裔/西班牙裔/奇卡纳人和土著/阿拉斯加土著/夏威夷土著的女性，以更好地了解：（1）URWOC创始人的背景以及他们如何对创办STEM企业感兴趣; 2）URWOC所有者/创始人开始和坚持他们的企业/创新的策略，选择许可证，3）从事STEM创新和创业的URWOC群体之间交叉性的相似性和差异&; 4）URWOC在其创新和创业努力中所经历的独特经验和挑战&; 5）如何增加创新和创业中的URWOC数量&，重点是为旨在使创新和创业中代表性不足的群体多样化的国家倡议提供援助&。这项研究将支持创建理论上强大而实用的框架，以了解URWOC创新者和企业家在STEM领域的经验。 反过来，这些见解将被用来通过创造有可能让各种利益相关者参与共同创造解决方案的成果，将研究与实践相结合，这些解决方案的重点是增加URWOC在STEM创新&创业（I& E）中的数量。该研究项目填补了一个重要的空白，综合了关于URWOCs的STEM中的交叉性和创业精神和创新的文献，并记录了组成的历史变化。在全国范围内开展了URWOC的STEM I& E项目。 调查结果将告知并连接到更有力的调查，了解关键因素如何影响URWOC，这些因素正在参与独特的经验，使他们能够成功并提高他们克服URWOC在STEM I E中的种族，阶级和性别压迫的典型问题的能力。 研究结果将为STEM教育和STEM创业研究人员、利益相关者和STEM领导层提供关键信息，用于政策制定、评估多样性举措的进展，以建立一个充满活力和强大的URWOC社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。