RCN-SEES: The Global Research Network on Women and Sustainability: Mentoring underrepresented women and women from developing countries in research on environmental sustainability

该奖项由美国国家科学基金会的科学、工程和可持续发展教育(SEES)活动资助，旨在应对创造一个可持续世界的挑战。人们越来越关注全球气候变化及其以粮食无保障、干旱和其他灾难性国际环境事件的不确定性等形式对妇女和儿童弱势群体的影响。该RCN-SEES项目将通过建立一个由来自不同族裔和种族群体的从事气候变化研究的女性学者组成的全球网络，扩大代表不足群体的参与。通过国际研讨会和全球女性学者对等指导计划，我们将在人口脆弱性、粮食安全和可持续发展战略方面开展学术合作。这些研究小组将作为世界各地女科学家的同行支持和指导网络，鼓励更多的妇女和女孩进入科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科。将评估这些方法在全球范围内教育和吸引妇女作为气候变化科学家的有效性，使该项目能够在我们对如何促进妇女参与气候变化和可持续性研究的理解方面取得重大进展。我们不能用全球一半的产能来解决全球问题。扩大妇女和代表不足的少数族裔成员的参与，对于提高美国的竞争力和应对对我们的社会具有重大影响的全球气候变化问题至关重要。辅导、社交网络和同伴支持在任何领域都很重要，但更迫切地需要鼓励女性进入科学领域。妇女在STEM学科中的代表性不足，研究表明，通过提供社会网络和同行支持，我们可以增加妇女作为专业人员参与科学领域的人数。该项目的重点是培养新一代女学者，促进多学科和多文化研究，将与妇女和可持续发展有关的生态、农业、社会和行为科学结合起来。

This award is funded under NSF's Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) activities, which aim to address challenges of creating a sustainable world. Attention is increasingly focused on global climate change and its impact on vulnerable populations of women and children in the form of food insecurity, the uncertainty of drought and other catastrophic international environmental events. This RCN-SEES project will broaden participation of underrepresented groups by building a global network of women scholars from different ethnic and racial groups engaged in climate change research. Through international workshops and the Global Women Scholars peer to peer mentoring program, we will develop scholarly collaborations on population vulnerability, food security, and sustainability strategies. These research teams will act as both peer support for women scientists around the world and as a mentoring network to encourage more women and girls into the science, technology, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines. The effectiveness of these methods in educating and engaging women as climate change scientists at a global scale will be assessed enabling the project to make significant advances in our understanding of how to promote the inclusion of women in climate change and sustainability research. We cannot solve global problems using half of the global capacity. Broadening the participation of women and members of underrepresented minorities is central to increasing U.S. competitiveness and addressing global climate change issues that have significant implications for our society. Mentoring, social networks, and peer support are important in any field but more critically needed to encourage women into the sciences. Women are under-represented in the STEM disciplines and research suggests that by providing social networks and peer support, we can increase the number of women participating as professionals in the science fields. This project focuses on creating a new generation of women scholars and promoting multidisciplinary and multi-cultural research that combines ecological, agricultural, social, and behavioral sciences related to women and sustainability.