Monitoring, Mitigating, and Leveraging the Long-Term impact of COVID-19 on the Future Careers of Women in STEM: A Workshop

监测、减轻和利用 COVID-19 对 STEM 领域女性未来职业的长期影响：研讨会

• 批准号: 2141337
• 负责人: Ashley Bear
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2141337&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Monitoring; Mitigating; Leveraging; Long; Term

Previous reports and convening activities of the National Academies and other groups have examined the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the longstanding inequities in the scientific enterprise that existed before the pandemic. While these initiatives are critical to building a comprehensive understanding, there has been minimal effort to bring a group of experts together to outline the future-looking research agenda that could provide answers and guidance over the long-term to specific, important questions about how the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic will manifest over time. Additionally, insights into how colleges, universities, and other research centers, government agencies, and professional societies could be monitoring the impact of new approaches to work in STEM (e.g., virtual vs. hybrid vs. in-person) to ensure that they are not exacerbating inequities are also needed.The proposed workshop will bring a group of experts together to take an intentionally intersectional approach to articulate and inform the research agenda that is needed to monitor and mitigate the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in STEM fields, while also considering how post-pandemic approaches to working, collaborating, and networking may serve either to support or hinder equity, diversity, and inclusion in STEM. The project activities have the potential to spur transformative research and forward-looking efforts to inform policies and new practices to monitor and mitigate the long-term negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the career trajectory, job stability and leadership roles of women, especially for women in rural communities and women of color in STEM. Additionally, the project will give attention to the innovations that have emerged from the pandemic that serve as positive disruptors to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scientific enterprise.The work will be conducted by the Committee on Women in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine under the Policy Theme of the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies. It is anticipated that the virtual workshop will take place in March 2022 and a Proceedings in Brief will be widely released to the public in June 2022.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.

美国国家科学院和其他组织以前的报告和召集活动研究了新冠肺炎大流行的直接影响，以及大流行之前科学事业中长期存在的不平等现象。虽然这些举措对于建立全面理解至关重要，但在召集一组专家概述面向未来的研究议程方面所做的努力微乎其微，这些议程可能会从长期到具体而重要的问题提供答案和指导，比如新冠肺炎疫情的影响将随着时间的推移如何显现。此外，还需要深入了解学院、大学和其他研究中心、政府机构和专业协会如何监测在STEM工作的新方法的影响(例如，虚拟与混合与面对面)，以确保它们不会加剧不平等。拟议的研讨会将把一群专家聚集在一起，采取有意交叉的方法，阐明并告知所需的研究议程，以监测和缓解新冠肺炎大流行对STEM领域女性的长期影响，同时还考虑大流行后的工作、协作和网络方法可能有助于支持或阻碍公平，多样性，以及在STEM中的包容性。项目活动有可能推动变革性研究和前瞻性努力，为监测和减轻新冠肺炎疫情对妇女的职业轨迹、工作稳定性和领导作用的长期负面影响的政策和新做法提供信息，特别是对农村社区的妇女和STEM的有色人种妇女。此外，该项目将关注大流行后出现的创新，这些创新对促进科学事业的多样性、公平性和包容性起到了积极的破坏作用。这项工作将由科学、工程和医学领域的妇女委员会在国家科学院政策和全球事务部的政策主题下进行。预计虚拟研讨会将于2022年3月举行，简要会议记录将于2022年6月广泛向公众发布。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。