CAREER: The Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative

妇女在整个历史上的社会运动中发挥了重要作用，尽管她们经常被写进历史书。近年来，妇女领导了地球仪各地许多以人民为主导的社会变革运动，包括推翻独裁者、挑战暴力侵害妇女行为和促进人权的运动。尽管人们普遍认识到妇女在这些最近的运动中发挥领导作用的重要性，但缺乏微观层面的数据来说明妇女个人如何和为什么参与这些运动，以及她们的参与在多大程度上对运动的成功至关重要。这个CAREER项目包括一个关于妇女参与社会运动的开创性研究和教育计划，该项目有两个核心组成部分：（1）尖端研究，旨在更好地了解优先考虑妇女、少数民族和种族以及其他边缘化群体的战略如何与社会运动的成功相关联;以及（2）教育和培训计划，旨在向研究生、更广泛的学术和政策团体以及地球仪的运动积极分子传播循证研究。包容性全球领导力倡议的独特优势在于其不同利益相关者之间的协同作用，包括活动家，学生，研究人员，政策制定者和公众。研究部分的重点是从地球仪最近10次运动中确定的妇女活动家那里收集微观层面的数据，以编写一本书、数据集和培训手册。她们的故事将帮助我们理解女性为何加入社会运动，她们是如何参与的（包括她们采用的战术、策略和性别化的争论剧目），以及她们的参与是否对运动的成功或失败有影响。然后，丹佛大学的一个创新的社会正义课程计划将使这些信息传播给传统的学生和运动积极分子，并为前线积极分子创造一个结构，直接为研究成果做出贡献。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。

Women have played essential roles in social movements throughout history, though they have often been written out of history books. In recent years, women have been at the helm of many people-led movements for social change across the globe, including movements to oust dictators, challenge violence against women, and promote human rights. Despite the popular understanding of the importance of women’s leadership in these recent movements, there is a lack of micro-level data on how and why individual women engage in such movements, and to what extent their participation matters for movement success. This CAREER project encompasses a groundbreaking research and educational program on women’s engagement in social movements.This project has two core components: (1) cutting edge research aimed at better understanding how strategies that prioritize the inclusion of women, ethnic and racial minorities, and other marginalized groups are associated with the success of social movements; and (2) education and training programs that seek to disseminate evidence-based research to graduate students, broader academic and policy communities, and movement activists across the globe. The unique strength of the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative lies in the synergy between its different stakeholders—including activists, students, researchers, policymakers, and the general public. The research component focuses on gathering micro-level data from women-identified activists in 10 recent movements across the globe to produce a book, dataset, and training manual. Their stories will help us understand why women join social movements, how they participate (including the tactics, strategies, and gendered repertoires of contention they deploy), and whether their participation matters for the movement’s success or failure. Then, an innovative curricular program in Social Justice at the University of Denver will enable the dissemination of this information to both traditional students and movement activists, as well as create a structure for frontline activists to directly contribute to research findings.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.