CAREER: Family Support, Pressure, Disengagement, and Marginalization: Facilitating or Hindering STEM Interest and Career Participation among Diverse Women

教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划是国家科学基金会范围内的活动，提供奖励，以支持早期职业教师谁有潜力作为研究和教育的学术榜样，领导他们的部门或组织的使命的进步，并建立一个基础，在整合教育和研究的领导终身。这个CAREER项目调查了父母的信息如何促进来自不同民族/种族背景的女孩和妇女在STEM职业发展中的弹性。该项目探讨了家庭支持对于鼓励对STEM的兴趣和在成年后保持职业进步至关重要的想法。然而，父母也可以传达信息（例如，压力，边缘化，脱离接触），使女孩和妇女难以坚持和在STEM职业生涯中茁壮成长。这项研究的结果将与教育目标相结合，教导家庭有效的沟通和STEM职业选择。这项研究将包括一个基于对话的纸牌游戏，让家庭参与讨论，并在一个为有兴趣追求STEM的高中女生的父母举办的研讨会上刺激学习职业轨迹，支持和信息。该项目将考虑交叉身份和多样化的生活经历，以了解不同类型的家庭STEM沟通如何影响STEM兴趣和坚持。三项混合方法研究将采用深入访谈和调查方法，以确定有效的家长信息，促进STEM兴趣，并在整个职业生涯中支持STEM中代表性不足的女性。与黑人，西班牙裔和白色STEM和非STEM专业的采访和对父母的调查将确定家庭STEM沟通的类型和预测因素。这个职业项目的实证研究结果和教育活动将阐明和传播家庭动态如何影响黑人，西班牙裔和白色妇女在多个生命阶段的职业轨迹。该项目由STEM教育核心研究理事会（Directorate for STEM Education Core Research，ECR）项目资助，旨在支持推动STEM学习和学习环境的基础研究、扩大STEM参与度和STEM劳动力发展的工作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program is a National Science Foundation-wide activity that offers awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education, to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization, and to build a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. This CAREER project investigates how parental messages facilitate the resilience of girls and women from diverse ethnic/racial backgrounds in STEM career development. The project explores the idea that family support is critical for encouraging interest in STEM and sustaining career progress through adulthood. However, parents may also communicate messages (e.g., pressure, marginalization, disengagement) that make it difficult for girls and women to persist and thrive in STEM careers. The results of this study will be integrated with education goals to teach families about effective communication and STEM career options. The study will include a conversation-based card game that engages the family in discussion and stimulate learning about career trajectories, support, and messages in a workshop for parents of high school girls interested in pursuing STEM.This project will consider intersectional identities and diverse lived experiences to understand how different types of family STEM communication influence STEM interests and persistence. Three mixed-methods studies will employ in-depth interview and survey methodologies to identify effective parental messages that facilitate STEM interest and support underrepresented women in STEM throughout their careers. Interviews with Black, Hispanic, and White STEM and non-STEM majors and a survey of parents will identify types and predictors of family STEM communication. The empirical findings and educational activities of this CAREER project will illuminate and disseminate how family dynamics influence the career trajectories of Black, Hispanic, and White women at multiple life stages. This project is funded by the Directorate for STEM Education Core Research (ECR) program, which supports work that advances fundamental research on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.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.