SBE-UKRI: Collaborative Research: Centering Women of Color in STEM: Data-Driven Opportunities for Inclusion

美国的经济繁荣依赖于科学的进步、国家卫生计划的推进，以及日益技术化的经济中的整体国家繁荣。这些进步依赖于有能力灵活应对新挑战和开发创新技术的人才队伍。学院和大学可以通过确保教育环境对各种各样的学生有效来为未来的劳动力做好最好的准备。2004年至2014年间，女性获得的物理学和计算机科学学士学位仅占20%；黑人女性和拉丁裔只获得了2%的物理学学位和6%的计算机科学学位。数学也有类似的比例：尽管44%的学士学位由女性获得，但只有6%授予了黑人女性和拉丁裔女性。英国的情况也差不多。该项目是在SBE-UKRI牵头机构合作研究机会下与英国经济和社会研究委员会（ESRC）共同资助的。该项目将通过创建一个门户网站来支持关注解决这一代表性不足问题的机构，通过该门户网站，美国和英国的STEM部门可以衡量他们在毕业女性（尤其是有色人种女性）方面的成功程度，以及他们自己之前的表现。该门户将利用复杂的可视化工具，并将易于访问和用户友好。该门户网站的用户将包括：希望通过招募和支持各种背景的最有才华的年轻科学专业人员来为科学进步做出贡献的STEM教授，并且需要有关其所在机构的基线信息以及衡量其随时间进步的方法；研究人员需要信息，以更好地了解代表性不足的动态，并确定扩大参与的有力做法；学生们也在寻找更有效的学习场所。该项目将确定以白人为主的男女同校的模范机构，并为同行机构创造机会，记录它们在实现包容性方面取得的进展。由于大多数有色人种女性主要就读于白人院校，这项工作有可能改善大多数有色人种女性工作和学习的高等教育环境。提高科研队伍的多样性对科学和国家的繁荣有直接的好处。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The economic prosperity of the United States relies on progress in science, the advancement of national health initiatives, and overall national prosperity in an increasingly technical economy. These advancements rely on a talented workforce with the ability to nimbly address new challenges and develop innovative technologies. Colleges and universities can best prepare this future workforce by ensuring that educational environments are effective for a diverse range of students. Women received only 20% of bachelor's degrees in physics and computer science between 2004-2014; Black women and Latinas earned only 2% of the physics degrees and 6% of computer science degrees. Math has similar rates: although 44% of bachelor's degrees were earned by women, only 6% were awarded to Black women and Latinas. The numbers are similar in the United Kingdom. This project is jointly funded with the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under the SBE-UKRI Lead Agency collaborative research opportunity.This project will support institutions concerned with addressing this underrepresentation by creating a portal through which US and UK STEM departments can measure their success at graduating women (especially women of color) to that of comparable institutions and to their own prior performance. The portal will make use of sophisticated visualization tools and will be accessible and user-friendly. Users of this portal will include: STEM professors who want to contribute to progress in science by recruiting and supporting the most talented young scientific professionals of all backgrounds, and are in need of baseline information about their own institution as well as a way to measure their improvement over time; researchers in need of information to better understand the dynamics of underrepresentation and identify powerful practices for broadening participation; and students seeking out more effective places to study. The project will allow for identification of exemplary predominantly white, coeducational institutions, and to create opportunities for peer institutions to document their own progress towards inclusion. Since most women of color attend predominantly white institutions, this work has the potential to improve the postsecondary educational environment where the majority of these women work and learn. Improving the diversity of the scientific workforce has immediate benefits from science and also the prosperity of the nation.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.