SBE-UKRI:Centering Women of Color in STEM: Data-Driven Opportunities for Inclusion

SBE-UKRI：以有色人种女性为中心参与 STEM：数据驱动的包容性机会

• 批准号: ES/T010290/1
• 负责人: Nicola Wilkin
• 金额: $ 34.85万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT010290%2F1
• 关键词: SBE; UKRI; Centering; Women; Color

Women of color-particularly US Black women and Latinas, and Black Asian Minority Ethnic in the UK-are deeply underrepresented in some STEM disciplines, principally physics/astrophysics/astronomy, computer science, math, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering (National Science Foundation & National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, 2019). Women who persist in these fields, especially women of color, experience isolation, microaggressions and sexual harassment (Barthelemy, McCormick, & Henderson, 2016; Gonsalves, Danielsson, & Pettersson, 2016; Johnson, Ong, Ko, Smith, & Hodari, 2017). However, little is known about the finer details of this underrepresentation: the kinds of institutions where women of color are markedly underrepresented and those where they thrive; institutional policies and practices that lead to inclusive cultures; benchmarks about what constitutes an above-average performance. Access to good data is needed to address all these gaps.Thus, we request funding to create a publicly available portal through which STEM professionals and others can access data about the under-representation of women of color in these fields. We imagine the following audiences for this portal:-STEM professors who want to create more inclusive departments and are in need of baseline information about their own institution as well as a way to measure their improvement over time;-Researchers in need of information to better understand the dynamics of underrepresentation and identify powerful practices for inclusion;-Women seeking out more inclusive places to study or work.This project grows out of our prior research into STEM departments where women report that they are thriving. That research pointed to concrete actions professors took to make their departments inclusive. In that project, a woman majoring in math told us "Math is like a family. If you show the slightest interest in it, all the professors are like "let me show you how much fun math can be." A woman majoring in physics said "the professors are willing to work with you. So if they see you trying and working hard, they're going to put in the extra time to make sure you're understanding it." Another physics major told us, about her department, " I can't really think of anything I don't like." We have found a hunger among STEM professors to create environments like this; our goal in this project is to provide them with data to help in this goal.Researchers from Eureka Scientific, Inc., AlderSEA, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and the University of Birmingham, UK, will support institutions concerned with addressing this underrepresentation by creating a portal through which US and UK STEM departments can measure their success at graduating women (especially women of colour) to that of comparable institutions and to their own prior performance. The portal will make use of sophisticated visualization tools and will be accessible and user-friendly.Users of this portal will include: - STEM professors who want to contribute to progress in science by recruiting and supporting the most talented young scientific professionals of all backgrounds,and are in need of baseline information about their own institution as well as a way to measure their improvement over time; - Researchers in need of information to better understand the dynamics of underrepresentation and identify powerful practices for broadening participation; - Students seeking out more effective places to study.The project will allow for identification of exemplary predominantly white, coeducational institutions, and to create opportunities for peer institutions to document their own progress towards inclusion. Since most women of colour attend predominantly white institutions, this work has the potential to improve the postsecondary educational environment where the majority of these women work and learn.

有色人种女性，特别是美国黑人女性和拉丁裔女性，以及英国的黑人亚裔少数民族，在一些STEM学科中的代表性严重不足，主要是物理学/天体物理学/天文学，计算机科学，数学，航空航天工程，土木工程，电气工程和机械工程（国家科学基金会和国家科学与工程统计中心，2019年）。坚持在这些领域工作的女性，尤其是有色人种女性，会经历孤立，微攻击和性骚扰（Barthelemy，McCormick，&亨德森，2016; Gonsalves，Danielsson，& Pettersson，2016;约翰逊，Ong，Ko，Smith，& Hodari，2017）。然而，人们对这种代表性不足的细节知之甚少：有色人种女性明显代表性不足的机构类型以及她们蓬勃发展的机构;导致包容性文化的机构政策和做法;关于什么构成高于平均水平的表现的基准。因此，我们请求资助创建一个公开的门户网站，通过该门户网站，STEM专业人员和其他人可以访问有关有色人种女性在这些领域代表性不足的数据。我们设想这个门户网站的以下受众：-STEM教授谁想要创建更具包容性的部门，并需要有关自己的机构的基线信息，以及一种方法来衡量他们随着时间的推移的改进;-需要信息的研究人员，以更好地了解代表性不足的动态，并确定强有力的包容性做法;- 寻找更具包容性的学习或工作场所的女性。该项目源于我们之前对STEM部门的研究，其中女性报告说，欣欣向荣这项研究指出了教授们为使他们的部门具有包容性而采取的具体行动。在那个项目中，一位主修数学的女士告诉我们：“数学就像一个家庭。如果你对它表现出一点点兴趣，所有的教授都会说“让我告诉你数学有多有趣。一位物理专业的女士说：“教授们愿意和你一起工作。”所以，如果他们看到你努力工作，他们会花额外的时间来确保你理解它。另一位物理专业的学生告诉我们，关于她的系，“我真的想不出有什么我不喜欢的。”“我们发现STEM教授渴望创造这样的环境;我们在这个项目中的目标是为他们提供数据来帮助实现这一目标。来自尤里卡科学公司的研究人员，AlderSEA，马里兰州的圣玛丽学院和英国伯明翰大学将通过创建一个门户网站来支持关注解决这种代表性不足的机构，通过该门户网站，美国和英国STEM部门可以衡量他们在毕业女性（特别是有色人种女性）方面的成功，以可比机构和他们自己的先前表现。该门户网站将使用先进的可视化工具，方便用户访问，用户包括：-希望通过招募和支持各种背景的最有才华的年轻科学专业人员为科学进步做出贡献的STEM教授，以及需要有关其所在机构的基线信息以及衡量其随着时间的推移而取得的进步的方法;研究人员需要信息，以便更好地了解代表性不足的动态，并确定扩大参与的有力做法;学生寻找更有效的学习场所，该项目将允许确定示范性的以白色为主的男女同校机构，并为同行机构创造机会，记录自己在实现包容方面取得的进展。由于大多数有色人种妇女主要就读于白色院校，这项工作有可能改善大多数有色人种妇女工作和学习的中学后教育环境。