Professional Skills Development Workshops

现在，在高中物理教室里，女性占据了大约一半的座位，但授予女性的本科生物理学位不到四分之一。更糟糕的是，在物理学教师职位上，只有8%的正教授是女性。女性物理学家在其职业生涯的不同阶段往往得不到与男性相同程度的支持和指导，即使她们没有受到公开的歧视。许多微小但微妙的疏忽行为，加上少数人造成的孤立，往往会创造出一个远远不利于女性职业发展的竞争环境。九年来，美国物理学会(APS)一直在举办一系列有影响力的研讨会，旨在提高女性物理学家的沟通、谈判和领导技能。这一奖项旨在将这些研讨会发展成一种可持续的模式，将惠及更多的妇女。该奖项将资助最初的研讨会的继续，并提供两个新方面：(1)培训物理学家作为谈判技能研讨会的主持人，他们可以在其机构和科学会议上开展战略劝导研讨会(SPS)；(2)在更大的APS分区会议上提供关于沟通、谈判和领导技能的传统研讨会。我们将学习有关在物理学方面对女性特别有益的信息。此外，该项目还将比较由专业主持人举办的讲习班与由专业主持人培训的物理学家举办的研讨会的影响。

Women now occupy approximately half of all seats in high school physics classrooms, but fewer than one in four undergraduate physics degrees are awarded to women. Worse still, only eight percent of full professors in physics faculty positions are women. Women physicists often do not receive the same level of support and mentoring throughout the various stages of their careers that men do, even if they do not experience overt discrimination. Many small but subtle acts of omission together with the isolation that comes from small numbers frequently add up to create a playing field that is far from level in terms of career advancement for women. The American Physical Society (APS) has run, for nine years, a series of influential workshops designed to improve communication, negotiation and leadership skills of female physicists. This award seeks to evolve these workshops into a sustainable model that will reach many more women.This award will fund a continuation of the original workshops that also offers two new aspects: (1) training physicists as negotiation skills workshop facilitators who can conduct the Strategic Persuasion Seminars (SPS) at their institutions and at scientific conferences and (2) offering the traditional workshops on communication, negotiation and leadership skills at the larger APS divisional meetings. Information will be learned about what is of particular benefit to women in physics. Additionally the project will compare the impact of the workshops - delivered by the professional facilitators to the impact of the seminars - delivered by the physicists trained by the professional facilitators.