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

美国的经济繁荣有赖于科学的进步、国民健康倡议的推进，以及在一个日益技术化的经济中的整体国家繁荣。这些进步有赖于一支有能力灵活应对新挑战和开发创新技术的有才华的劳动力。学院和大学可以通过确保教育环境对不同范围的学生有效地为未来的劳动力做好准备。2004-2014年间，女性只获得了20%的物理学和计算机科学学士学位；黑人女性和拉丁裔女性只获得了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%的学士学位是由女性获得的，但只有6%的学士学位授予了黑人女性和拉丁裔。在英国，这一数字也类似。这个项目是在SBE-UKRI牵头机构的合作研究机会下与英国经济和社会研究理事会(ESRC)共同资助的。该项目将通过创建一个门户网站来支持涉及解决这种代表性不足的机构，通过这个门户网站，美国和英国的STEM部门可以衡量他们在将女性(特别是有色人种女性)毕业到同类机构和她们之前的表现方面的成功程度。该门户将使用复杂的可视化工具，并将是可访问和用户友好的。该门户的用户将包括：希望通过招聘和支持各种背景的最有才华的年轻科学专业人员来促进科学进步的STEM教授，他们需要关于本机构的基线信息以及一种衡量其随时间推移的进步的方法；研究人员需要信息以更好地了解代表性不足的动态并找出扩大参与的有效做法；以及寻找更有效的学习场所的学生。该项目将能够确定以白人为主的模范男女同校机构，并为同行机构创造机会，记录它们在实现包容方面的进展。由于大多数有色人种妇女在以白人为主的机构就读，这项工作有可能改善这些妇女中的大多数人工作和学习的高等教育环境。提高科学劳动力的多样性对科学和国家的繁荣都有直接的好处。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.