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.

这项渴望的奖项对STEM（科学，技术，工程，数学）的创新和创业女性所面临的成功和企业家妇女面临的成功和障碍进行了探索性研究。 这项研究位于交叉性框架内，将通过深入的访谈和焦点小组与代表性不足的有色妇女（URWOC）创新者和企业家进行焦点小组。这项研究将有色妇女定义为那些确定为非裔美国人/黑人，拉丁裔/西班牙裔/奇卡纳州和土著/阿拉斯加本地人/夏威夷人的女性，以更好地理解：（1）Urwoc创始人的背景以及他们如何对开始茎型风险投资感兴趣； 2）URWOC所有者/创始人从事企业/创新，选择许可或出售其企业/创新的策略； 3）从事STEM创新和企业家精神的URWOC群体之间的相似性和差异（I＆E）； 4）URWOC在其I＆E努力中承受的独特经验和挑战和5）如何增加I＆E中URWOC的数量，重点是为旨在多样化I＆E中代表性不足的群体提供帮助。这项研究将支持创建理论上坚固而实用的框架，以了解STEM中URWOC创新者和企业家的经验。 反过来，这些见解将用于通过创建结果来将研究与实践整合在一起，这些结果有可能吸引各种利益相关者参与共同创建解决方案的重点，该解决方案着重于增加STEM Innovation＆Entrepreneurshiurs the STEM Innovation＆Ethereurshiurs的URWOC数量（I＆E）。全国各地的茎I＆E中URWOC组成的历史变化。 调查结果将为关键因素如何影响URWOC的更强大的调查提供信息，并从事独特的体验，从而使他们的成功并增强了他们克服典型的种族，阶级和性别压迫的能力，因为sTEM I＆E中的URWOC。 研究发现将为STEM教育和STEM企业家研究人员，利益相关者以及在政策形成方面的领导地位提供关键信息，评估多样性计划的评估，以建立一个充满活力，强大的URWOC社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基础的智力效果和宽阔的范围来评估支持，并以评估值得评估。