ADVANCE Leadership Award

这一领导力奖是为了表彰和支持里士满教授通过她在COACH中的领导作用，在增加女性在化学科学领域的参与和进步方面所发挥的作用。这笔资金将使她能够在俄勒冈大学继续她非常活跃的研究项目，同时为她提供更多的时间来指导COACH活动，使其达到适合美国女性化学家、化学工程师和化学社区的要求和需要的水平。在过去的二十年里，获得化学本科学位、进入化学研究生院和获得化学博士学位的女性人数一直在增加。目前，女性获得了该领域约41%的学士学位和近三分之一的博士学位。不幸的是，正在筹备中的女性人数的增加并没有像许多人预测的那样导致化工劳动力的重大变化。这一点在学术界尤为明显。在四年制大学的化学教师中，女性约占16%，在博士生授予机构的化学教师中，女性所占比例不到10%。鉴于学术机构在塑造化学科学劳动力方面的深远作用和对未来的期望，努力提高女性化学家在学术界的数量、成就和知名度，对于提高妇女在更广泛的化学科学劳动力队伍中的参与度至关重要。鉴于预计未来十年教员职位将大量更替，当务之急是迅速采取行动，确保积极招聘代表性不足的群体，并将其提升到离职职位，以便在化学科学领域实现学术界性别和种族代表性的更均衡。针对这些问题，Coach应运而生。该项目得到了美国国家科学基金会先期计划的支持。高级方案的总体任务是通过增加妇女在学术、科学和工程职业中的代表性和地位，增加妇女在科学和工程工作中的参与度。

This Leadership Award is to recognize and support the role of Prof. Richmond in increasing the participation and advancement of women in the chemical sciencesthrough her leadership role in COACh. The funds will allow her to maintain her very activeresearch program at the University of Oregon while providing her with more time to direct theCOACh activities at a level appropriate for the demands and needs of women chemists, chemicalengineers, and the chemical community in this country. Over the past twenty years the number of women getting undergraduate degrees inchemistry, entering graduate school in chemistry and obtaining doctorate degrees in chemistryhas been increasing. Women currently receive ca. 41% of the bachelor's degrees and almost one-third of the Ph.Ds granted in this field. Unfortunately, this increased number of women in thepipeline is not resulting in the significant changes in the chemical workforce that many hadpredicted. This is particularly noticeable in the academic workforce. Women make upapproximately 16% of chemistry faculty in four-year colleges and less than 10% of the chemistryfaculty at doctoral granting institutions. Given the profound role of academic institutions inshaping the workforce in the chemical sciences and the expectations of future, efforts to enhancethe numbers, success, and visibility of women chemists in academia are essential to improvingthe participation of women in the broader chemical sciences workforce. With the anticipatedhigh turn-over in faculty positions in the coming decade, it is imperative that swift action betaken to assure that underrepresented groups are actively recruited and promoted into thesevacated positions to produce a more balanced representation of gender and race in academia inthe chemical sciences. COACh was developed in response to these concerns. This project is supported by the NSF ADVANCE Program. The overall mission of the ADVANCE Program is to increase the participation of women in the scientific and engineering workforce through the increased representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers.