International Engagement and Broadening Participation in STEM from a Family-Friendly Perspective for Women of Color

该项目正在研究职业生活平衡对有色人种社区的影响，方法是支持女性研究人员和来自服务不足人群的高级研究生参与拉丁美洲的国际经验，并随后与国际演讲者举行网络研讨会系列，讨论维持职业生活平衡水平的伴随挑战和潜在解决方案。这些活动将伴随着在线讨论和广泛传播。女研究人员将参加2014年7月在厄瓜多尔瓜亚基尔举行的拉丁和加勒比工程机构联合会（LACEI）会议。研究生将由女性指导，这些女性在指导来自代表性不足群体的研究生方面有着长期的记录。与会者将有机会会见来自拉丁美洲其他代表性不足的社区的研究人员。本次会议将讨论职业选择，生活/工作平衡以及家庭和传统对晋升决定的影响。此外，会议将提供机会，与来自美国和不同拉丁美洲国家（例如，墨西哥、秘鲁、厄瓜多尔、哥伦比亚、阿根廷和巴拿马）。会议结束后，一个网络研讨会系列与博客讨论将讨论职业生活平衡的基础上的研究和经验，从专家谁被邀请参加性别峰会3北美在2013年11月，这是共同赞助的国家科学基金会，姐妹科学组织在墨西哥，加拿大和英国。这些国家的代表将参加网络研讨会系列和博客讨论。该博客将包括通过网站进行的在线讨论和使用Twitter的微型博客。网络研讨会系列将以平衡工作和家庭、家庭决定如何影响职业发展以及男性在工作和家庭中的潜意识“冒名顶替”等主题为特色。此外，它还将强调其他国家为妇女工作的政策和最佳做法，如墨西哥国立自治大学教师同工同酬，以及欧洲的调查结果。的genSET项目。网络研讨会还将包括来自LSAMP社区的共同主持人/讨论者，他们将作为下一代代表性不足的少数STEM研究人员的导师带来他们的观点。总的来说，该项目将有助于了解家庭的承诺，家庭的影响，和家庭的挑战对研究人员的职业决策的颜色。我们将研究儿童保育，老年人护理，文化背景和海外代表性不足的少数民族的看法，以及男性主导的社会对当前参与者的影响。 此外，该项目将促进学生和教师的国际合作关系的发展，这是一项对专业发展和促进很重要的活动。 它将建立一个结构，可以增强未来一代有色人种STEM研究社区的国际流动性，以提高其全球影响力和竞争力。该在线系列将邀请研究人员讨论如何提高全球参与度，以及影响职业生活平衡的相应问题。该项目由国际科学与工程科、职业生活平衡倡议和工程教育司和工程项目中心扩大参与共同资助。

This project is examining the influence of career life balance on communities of color by supporting the participation of women researchers and advanced graduate students from underserved populations in an international experience in Latin American and a subsequent webinar series with international speakers to discuss the accompanying challenges and potential solutions for maintaining levels of career life balance. These activities will be accompanied by online discussions and wide dissemination. The Women researchers will be attending the July 2014 conference for the Latin and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The graduate students will be mentored by women who have a long-standing track record for mentoring graduate students from underrepresented groups. The participants will have opportunities to meet researchers from other underrepresented communities in Latin America. This conference will have sessions that will discuss career choices, life/work balance, and the impact of family and traditions on advancement decisions. In addition, the conference will provide opportunities to develop new collaborations with women in the STEM fields from the U.S. and different Latin American countries (e.g., Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina and Panama). Following the conference, a webinar series with blogged discussions will discuss career life balance based on research and experiences from experts who were invited to participate in the Gender Summit 3 North America in November 2013 which was co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and sister scientific organizations in Mexico, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Representatives from each of these countries will participate in the webinar series and blog discussions. The blog will include both online discussions via a website, and microblogging using Twitter. The webinar series will feature topics such as balancing work and family, how family decisions affect career advancement, and subconscious "imposterism" in the company of males at work and at home. Further, it will highlight the policies and best practices that are working for women in other countries such as equal pay for faculty at UNAM in Mexico, and findings from Europe?s genSET project. The webinars will also include co-host/discussants from the LSAMP community, who will bring their perspectives as mentors of next generation of underrepresented minority STEM researchers. Overall the project will contribute to understanding family commitments, family influence, and family challenges on the career decisions of researchers of color. We will examine child-care, eldercare, cultural contexts and perceptions of underrepresented minorities abroad, and the influence of male-dominated societies on current participants. Furthermore, the project will facilitate development of international collaborative relationships for students and faculty, an activity important to professional development and promotion. It will develop a structure that can enhance the international mobility of a generation of future STEM research communities of color, to increase their global influence and competitiveness. The online series will engage researchers to discuss ways to increase global engagement, and corresponding issues that affect career life balance.This project is co-funded by the International Science and Engineering Section, the Career Life Balance Initiative and the Division of Engineering Education and Centers Broadening Participation in Engineering Program.