EAGER: New Paths for Communicating Science

尽管社会科学的专业知识多种多样，但妇女在学术界和社会科学专业知识的新闻报道中的代表性不足。男子更有可能被邀请参加会谈，在课程大纲中分配他们的工作，并被媒体联系以了解对当前事件的反应。但许多社会科学专家是女性;她们只是不那么引人注目或知名，那些寻求专业知识的人更容易找到他们已经熟悉的学者。要减少这种对妇女的隐性偏见，就必须采取积极步骤，使妇女的专门知识更加明显，更容易获得。妇女也知道东西（WAKS）项目正是这样做的。2016年2月，“女性也知道”倡议成立，旨在通过一个女性专家网站和一个活跃的Twitter信息源，让学者和记者更容易识别女性专家。在过去的20个月里，妇女也知道一些东西，以充实和宣传一个众包在线数据库，突出了女学者的专业知识。《妇女也知道》编辑委员会收集和管理这些信息，目的是促进妇女的公共和专业参与。该项目将允许网站上列出的妇女引用1）同行评审的已发表期刊文章和书籍以及2）媒体采访，允许她们勾选相关主题领域的复选框（例如，冲突研究、国际关系）。图标（例如，星号）将表明他们是否为给定的主题领域提供了链接引用。这一引文和图标链接系统将使网站用户能够缩小搜索范围，只搜索那些在感兴趣的主题领域的出版物和/或媒体采访中列出引文的学者。这一质量控制功能还将鼓励女学者更加关注她们在网站上的个人资料，从而使她们更有可能在新闻中列出专题（并提供与其工作相关的链接引文），从而增加其与媒体用户的相关性，并增加新闻机构联系女学者就时事发表评论的可能性。总而言之，添加这些质量控制图标将提高网站的实用性，并增加其利用率。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

Despite the wide diversity of expertise in social science, women are underrepresented in scholarship and in news coverage of social science expertise. Men are more likely to be invited to talks, to have their work assigned on course syllabi, and to be contacted by the media for reactions to current events. But many social science experts are women; they are simply not as visible or well-known, and it is easier for those seeking expertise to call on those scholars with whom they are already familiar. Reducing this implicit bias against women requires positive steps to make the expertise of women more visible and easily accessible. The Women Also Know Stuff (WAKS) project does exactly that. Created in February 2016, the Women Also Know Stuff initiative is working to make it easier for scholars and journalists to identify experts who are women, through a website of women experts and an active Twitter feed. Women Also Know Stuff has worked for the past 20 months to populate and publicize a crowd-sourced online database that highlights the expertise of women scholars. The Women Also Know Stuff Editorial Board collects and manages this information with the goal of promoting women's public and professional engagement. This project will allow women listed on the website to give citations of 1) peer-reviewed published journal articles and books and 2) media interviews, by allowing them to check boxes for relevant subject areas (e.g., conflict studies, international relations) next to each citation. Icons (e.g., stars) next to the names of scholars will indicate if they have provided a linked citation for a given subject area. This system of linked citations and icons will allow users of the website to narrow their searches to only those scholars who have citations listed for publications and/or media interviews in the subject area of interest. This quality control feature will also encourage women scholars to be more attentive to their profiles on the website, thus making it more likely that they will list (and provide relevant linked citations to their work on) topics in the news, thus increasing its relevance for media users and the likelihood that news outlets will contact women scholars for comment on current events. In sum, adding these quality control icons will both improve the usefulness of the website and also increase its utilization.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.