GSE/SGER Women Working: Thinking, Creating, Making Science

纽约城市大学研究生中心和女权主义出版社将通过为高中女生出版和传播一系列名为《女性工作：思考、创造、制造科学》的书籍来培养年轻女性对科学的兴趣。这12卷将聚焦于传统领域和非传统领域的职业女性科学家的世界。随着美国在全球思想、技术和工业市场上的竞争，学校的科学教育鼓励所有学生的才能，无论男女，比以往任何时候都更加重要。研究表明，女孩没有平等的机会接受科学教育，部分原因是陈规定型观念继续误导教师和家长，阻碍女学生的学习。女性在科学中的形象——无论是在生活中还是在课程材料中——仍然是需要的。到高中毕业时，选修科学课程的女孩数量显著下降，到上大学时，许多年轻女性对自己失去了信心，尤其是对自己学习数学和科学的能力失去了信心。2005年2月，美国物理学会发布了一份关于物理学和天文学领域女性的报告，报告发现，尽管近一半的高中物理学生是女生，但获得物理学学士学位的女性只占四分之一。探索这一系列书籍的出版是一个使用高风险方法的潜在高收益项目。这个小小的探索性努力将把对问题的研究与传记融合在一起，将研究成果嵌入到针对高中生的流行传记中。该项目希望通过建立可见的榜样和提高对女性如何使用科学的认识来提高女科学家的知名度。《女性工作：思考、创造、创造科学》将探讨社会期望如何转化为女性在科学领域的存在或缺席。探索性和初步工作将结合科学家、科学作家、妇女研究专家、科学和工程领域的女性专家（巴尔的摩马里兰大学巴尔的摩县的CWIT）、专业协会（APS、AWM、AAS、WIN）、教育工作者（NSTA）、图书馆员（纽约公共图书馆）、行业（欧莱雅）和学生的投入，以制定一项策略，将研究嵌入传记中，并使其具有吸引力。这种方法既不是研究性研究，也不是课程开发的努力；这是一个创造性的探索如何使用流行的写作来突出复杂的研究和劳动力问题。更广泛的影响女权主义出版社的书籍通过专业机构在全国发行，并通过印刷媒体、电视和广播进行专业宣传和营销。此外，该项目还将通过与专业科学学会、教师协会和工业界合作，寻求非传统的国家传播渠道；并通过派遣女科学家——在她们职业生涯的早期——与高中生讲述她们在科学方面的经历。除了在学校和图书馆分发和使用这些书籍外，还将通过女性出版社网站（www.feministpress.org）上的帖子和cd、dvd、录像带等形式提供教材。关于科学和工程领域多样性的重大全国性研究证实，大众媒体迫切需要重塑科学家和工程师的“面貌”。这一努力的影响范围可能具有变革性。它可以驱散那些继续把科学描绘成男性职业的刻板印象，用今天真正的女性科学家的现实来取代它们。主要目标是激发高中女生对科学的热情和兴趣，但它也会影响教育者、家长、科学家和工程师。

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Feminist Press will cultivate young women's interest in the sciences through the publishing and dissemination of a series of books for high school girls called Women Working: Thinking, Creating, Making Science. These 12 volumes will focus on the world of working women scientists, both in traditional fields and in nontraditional ones.As the U.S. competes in a global marketplace of ideas, technology, and industry, it is more important than ever that science education in the schools encourage the talents of all students, women as well as men. Studies show that girls do not have equal access to science instruction, in part because stereotypes continue to inform instructors and parents and discourage female students. Images of women in science-both in life and in curricular materials-continue to be needed. Intellectual Merit By the end of high school, the numbers of girls in science courses drop significantly, and by the time they go to college, many young women lose confidence in themselves and especially in their ability to do math and science. In February 2005 the American Institute of Physics issued a report on women in physics and astronomy, finding that while nearly half of high school physics students are girls, only one fourth of bachelor's degrees earned in physics are awarded to women. Exploring the publication of this series of books is a potentially high gain project using a high risk approach. The small exploratory effort will fuse research on the issues with biography, embedding research findings in popular biographies aimed at high school students. The project expects to increase the visibility of women scientists through the creation of visible role models and awareness about how women use science. Women Working: Thinking, Creating, Making Science will explore how social expectations translate to women's presence or absence in the sciences. The exploratory and preliminary work will combine inputs from scientists, science writers, women's studies experts, experts on women in science and engineering (CWIT at UMD Baltimore County), professional associations (APS, AWM, AAS, WIN), educators (NSTA), librarians (New York Public Library), industry (L'Oreal), and students in order to develop a strategy for embedding research in the biographies and still make them appealing reading. The approach is neither a research study nor a curriculum development effort; it is a creative exploration of how to use popular writing to highlight complex research and workforce issues. Broader ImpactFeminist Press books are distributed nationally through a professional agency, and publicized and marketed professionally, using print media, television, and radio. The project will in addition pursue nontraditional channels of national dissemination through partnering with professional science societies, teacher associations, and industry; and through sending women scientists--early in their careers--to speak with high school students about their experience in science. In addition to the distribution and usage of the books in schools and libraries, materials will be delivered through postings on the website of the Feminist Press (www.feministpress.org), and through CDs, DVDs and videos.Major national studies of diversity in science and engineering have affirmed the critical need for popular media to reshape "the face" of scientists and engineers. The effort is potentially transformative in its reach. It could disperse the stereotypes that continue to portray science as a male profession, and replace them with the realities of actual women scientists today. The main goal is to generate enthusiasm and interest for science among high school girls, but it will influence educators, parents, and scientists and engineers too.