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

职业：家庭支持、压力、脱离和边缘化：促进或阻碍不同女性对 STEM 的兴趣和职业参与

• 批准号: 2238446
• 负责人: Elizabeth Dorrance Hall
• 金额: $ 130.44万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2028-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2238446&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Family; Support; Pressure; Disengagement

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.

学院早期职业发展(Career)计划是国家科学基金会范围内的一项活动，旨在为有潜力在研究和教育中充当学术榜样的早期教师提供支持，在其部门或组织的使命中领导进步，并为终身领导教育和研究的整合奠定基础。这一职业项目调查父母的信息如何促进来自不同族裔/种族背景的女孩和妇女在STEM职业发展中的复原力。该项目探讨了家庭支持对于鼓励人们对STEM的兴趣和在整个成年期保持职业发展的关键这一想法。然而，父母也可能传达信息(例如，压力、边缘化、脱离)，使女孩和妇女难以坚持并在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，向家庭传授有效沟通和STEM职业选择。这项研究将包括一种基于对话的纸牌游戏，让家庭参与讨论，并在为对追求STEM感兴趣的高中女孩的父母举办的研讨会上激发对职业轨迹、支持和信息的学习。该项目将考虑交叉身份和不同的生活经历，以了解不同类型的家庭STEM沟通如何影响STEM的兴趣和坚持性。三项混合方法研究将采用深入的访谈和调查方法，以确定有效的父母信息，以促进STEM的兴趣，并在STEM的整个职业生涯中支持代表性不足的妇女。对黑人、西班牙裔和白人STEM和非STEM专业学生的采访以及对父母的调查将确定家庭STEM沟通的类型和预测因素。这一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、西班牙裔和白人女性在多个人生阶段的职业轨迹。该项目由STEM教育核心研究理事会(ECR)计划资助，该计划支持推进STEM学习和学习环境的基础研究、扩大对STEM的参与以及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优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。