Monitoring, Mitigating, and Leveraging the Long-Term impact of COVID-19 on the Future Careers of Women in STEM: A Workshop

美国国家科学院和其他团体之前的报告和会议活动已经审查了COVID-19大流行的直接影响，以及大流行之前存在的科学事业中长期存在的不公平现象。虽然这些举措对于建立全面的理解至关重要，但我们几乎没有努力召集一组专家来概述前瞻性的研究议程，这些研究议程可以为COVID-19大流行的影响如何随着时间的推移而显现的具体重要问题提供长期答案和指导。此外，深入了解学院，大学和其他研究中心，政府机构和专业协会如何监测STEM工作新方法的影响（例如，拟议的研讨会将召集一组专家，采取一种有意交叉的方法，阐明和通报监测和减轻COVID-19大流行对STEM领域妇女的长期影响所需的研究议程，同时还考虑如何在大流行后采取工作方法，合作和网络可能有助于支持或阻碍STEM的公平，多样性和包容性。项目活动有可能推动变革性研究和前瞻性努力，为政策和新实践提供信息，以监测和减轻COVID-19大流行对女性（特别是农村社区女性和STEM中的有色人种女性）的职业轨迹、工作稳定性和领导角色的长期负面影响。此外，该项目还将关注疫情中出现的创新，这些创新是促进科学事业多样性、公平性和包容性的积极破坏因素，这项工作将由科学、工程和医学领域妇女委员会在国家科学院政策和全球事务部的政策主题下进行。预计虚拟研讨会将于2022年3月举行，并将于2022年6月向公众广泛发布会议纪要。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Previous reports and convening activities of the National Academies and other groups have examined the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the longstanding inequities in the scientific enterprise that existed before the pandemic. While these initiatives are critical to building a comprehensive understanding, there has been minimal effort to bring a group of experts together to outline the future-looking research agenda that could provide answers and guidance over the long-term to specific, important questions about how the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic will manifest over time. Additionally, insights into how colleges, universities, and other research centers, government agencies, and professional societies could be monitoring the impact of new approaches to work in STEM (e.g., virtual vs. hybrid vs. in-person) to ensure that they are not exacerbating inequities are also needed.The proposed workshop will bring a group of experts together to take an intentionally intersectional approach to articulate and inform the research agenda that is needed to monitor and mitigate the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in STEM fields, while also considering how post-pandemic approaches to working, collaborating, and networking may serve either to support or hinder equity, diversity, and inclusion in STEM. The project activities have the potential to spur transformative research and forward-looking efforts to inform policies and new practices to monitor and mitigate the long-term negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the career trajectory, job stability and leadership roles of women, especially for women in rural communities and women of color in STEM. Additionally, the project will give attention to the innovations that have emerged from the pandemic that serve as positive disruptors to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scientific enterprise.The work will be conducted by the Committee on Women in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine under the Policy Theme of the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies. It is anticipated that the virtual workshop will take place in March 2022 and a Proceedings in Brief will be widely released to the public in June 2022.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.