Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering - Standard Research Grant

为了保持一个强大的创新体系，重要的是充分利用合格的人才，并创造出与潜在用户相匹配的产品。在美国，女性在科学和技术劳动力中的代表性不足，创新体系并不总是解决性别和技术交叉的方式。因此，创新体系存在瓶颈。该奖项以欧洲联盟要求在创新中关注性别平等的政策指令为基础，解决了这两个问题。 该奖项资助对性别问题的关注导致重要技术创新的案例的发展。这些案例由来自自然和物理科学，工程，社会科学和人文科学的跨学科研究人员组成的小组进行改进和测试。这项研究有助于性别如何塑造科学知识的理论。虽然以前的政策干预试图增加妇女人数？为了提高妇女的人力资本，或解决体制问题，这项研究将探讨如何关注性别知识，使科学和技术工作对妇女有吸引力，并有助于创新。 案例材料在视觉上和技术上都有记录，并通过互动网站、出版物和政策文件提供给决策者、执业科学家和工程师以及教师。材料的创建和测试将由地理和人口统计学上不同的研究人员、本科研究人员和学生进行。

To maintain a robust innovation system, it is important to make full use of qualified personnel, and to create products that are matched to potential users. In the US, women are under-represented in the science and technology labor force, and innovation systems do not always address the ways that gender and technology intersect. As a result, there are bottlenecks in the innovation system. This award addresses those two problems by building on a European Union policy directive that requires attention to gender in innovation. The award funds the development of cases in which attention to gender led to important technological innovations. These cases are refined and tested by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from natural and physical science, engineering, social science, and humanities. This research contributes to theories of how gender shapes scientific knowledge. While previous policy interventions sought to increase women?s human capital, or to redress institutional problems, this research will examine how attention to gendered knowledge can make science and technology work attractive to women, and also contribute to innovation. Case materials are visually and technically documented, and made available to policymakers, practicing scientists and engineers, and teachers through an interactive website, publications, and policy documents. The creation and testing of the materials will geographically and demographically diverse researchers, undergraduate researchers, and students.