Career-Life Balance for Women of Color: Experiences in Science and Engineering Academia.
Career-Life Balance for Women of Color: Experiences in Science and Engineering Academia.
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有色人种女性的职业与生活平衡：科学与工程学术界的经验。
DOI：
10.1037/a0039068
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
M. Ong
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作者：
Rachel R. Kachchaf;Lily T. Ko;A. Hodari;M. Ong
美国国家科学基金会最近认识到，与白人和/或男性同行相比，科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 领域的职业与生活平衡可能会给有色人种女性带来一些独特的挑战，从而对长期在 STEM 中代表性不足的少数群体的保留和晋升产生负面影响（国家科学基金会，2011）。然而，关于这个主题的文献却很少。本文通过分析三名代表性不足的少数族裔女性的职业与生活平衡问题以及这些问题对其职业轨迹的影响，增进了我们对这些挑战的性质的理解。我们探讨了这些女性在 STEM 学术生涯的不同阶段遇到的职业与生活平衡问题的经历。我们使用叙事探究的方法，描述了家庭现实（例如，社会生活、老年护理、怀孕）和理想的工人规范之间的相互作用，理想的工人规范是 STEM 中纯粹奉献于科学工作的普遍性别标准。使用累积劣势的视角，我们研究种族/族裔和性别身份的交集如何为每个参与者产生一系列经验，使她处于规范之外，从而导致重大障碍（例如，被专业网络排除、缺乏支持、能力质疑）。我们描述了与理想工人规范的持续紧张如何影响这些女性的职业轨迹，说明她们的职业生活平衡经历可能与那些更紧密体现该规范的人不同，并详细说明了为提高有色人种女性在 STEM 学术界的参与、保留和进步而需要解决的问题。（PsycINFO 数据库记录 (c) 2016 APA，保留所有权利）
The National Science Foundation recently recognized that career–life balance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) may present some unique challenges for women of color compared with their White and/or male counterparts, thus negatively impacting retention and advancement for a minority demographic that has long been underrepresented in STEM (National Science Foundation, 2011). However, there is a dearth of literature on this topic. This article advances our understanding of the nature of these challenges by analyzing career–life balance issues for three underrepresented minority women and the impact of these issues on their career trajectories. We explore the experiences of these women, at different stages of pursuing STEM academia, as they encounter career–life balance issues. Using the approach of narrative inquiry, we describe the interplay between domestic realities (eg, social life, elder care, pregnancy) and the ideal worker norm, a prevalent gendered standard within STEM of pure dedication to scientific work. Using the lens of cumulative disadvantage we examine how the intersection of racial/ethnic and gender identities generated a set of experiences for each participant that positioned her outside that norm, resulting in significant obstacles (eg, exclusion from professional networks, lack of support, questioning of competence). We describe how continual tension with the ideal worker norm impacted these women’s career trajectories, illustrate how their experiences of career–life balance may be different from those who more closely embody the norm, and detail issues that need to be addressed to increase the participation, retention, and advancement of women of color in STEM academia.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)