BUILDING WOMEN'S CAREERS IN SCIENCE

美国国立卫生研究院妇女健康研究办公室与美国细胞生物学学会将召开一次会议，重点关注与促进妇女职业发展有关的科学学会及其委员会。将有200-300名参与者，其中约50人由代表所有生命科学和相关学科的科学学会提名，其余人员将通过先到先到的公开报名方式填补。与会者将分享促进妇女从事科学事业的策略、成功和失败。会议将有最少的正式发言；大多数会议将是互动的。预期的结果将是将新的想法带回并由参与的社团实施，以促进妇女的科学事业。此外，将在一个适当的网站上登载下列有关妇女职业的资源。这些协会的成员都是博士级别的科学家，他们可以合理地向NIH申请支持。这些领域不仅包括传统的生物医学和行为学领域，还包括数学、物理和工程学等非传统领域——NIH正在将这些学科纳入其支持的研究中。这次会议不会试图解决医学博士科学家职业生涯中所特有的问题。这些问题可以在今后可能举行的会议上加以讨论。要考虑的职业阶段将从本科生到正教授或同等学历，包括这些高级个人如何获得国家认可。学术、工业、政府和其他领域的职业将被考虑。

The National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health, with the American Society for Cell Biology, will convene a meeting focused around the scientific societies and their committees concerned with promoting women's careers. There will be 200-300 participants consisting of a core of about 50 people nominated by scientific societies representing all life science and related disciplines, and the remainder to be filled through open registration on a first-come basis. Participants will share strategies, successes, and failures in promoting the careers of women in the sciences. The meeting will have a minimum of formal presentations; the majority of the sessions will be interactive. The expected outcome will be new ideas to be taken back to and implemented by the participating societies to promote the scientific careers of women. In addition, the assembled resources for women's careers, described below, would be posted on an appropriate web site. The societies to be involved would be those whose members are Ph.D. level scientists who might reasonably apply to NIH for support. These include not only the traditional biomedical and behavioral areas but the non-traditional areas such as mathematics, physics, and engineering - where NIH is reaching out to include such disciplines in the research it supports. The meeting would not attempt to address issues unique to the careers of scientists who are M.D.'s. These could be addressed by a possible future meeting. The career stages to be considered would span undergraduates through full professor or equivalent, including how such senior individuals achieve national recognition. Careers in academic, industry, government and elsewhere would be considered.