CAREER: Family Support, Pressure, Disengagement, and Marginalization: Facilitating or Hindering STEM Interest and Career Participation among Diverse Women

教师早期职业发展（Career）计划是一项国家科学基金会范围内的活动，为有潜力在研究和教育中担任学术榜样的早期职业教师提供奖励，领导其部门或组织的使命进步，并为整合教育和研究的终身领导奠定基础。这个职业项目调查了父母的信息如何促进来自不同民族/种族背景的女孩和妇女在STEM职业发展中的适应能力。该项目探讨了家庭支持对于鼓励对STEM的兴趣和在成年后保持职业发展至关重要的观点。然而，父母也可能传递信息（例如，压力、边缘化、脱离），使女孩和妇女难以在STEM职业中坚持和发展。这项研究的结果将与教育目标相结合，向家庭传授有效的沟通和STEM职业选择。这项研究将包括一个以对话为基础的纸牌游戏，让家庭参与讨论，并在一个为对STEM感兴趣的高中女生的父母举办的研讨会上激发对职业轨迹、支持和信息的学习。本项目将考虑交叉身份和不同的生活经历，以了解不同类型的家庭STEM交流如何影响STEM兴趣和持久性。三项混合方法研究将采用深度访谈和调查方法，以确定有效的家长信息，促进STEM兴趣，并在整个职业生涯中支持STEM中代表性不足的女性。对黑人、西班牙裔和白人STEM和非STEM专业学生的采访，以及对父母的调查，将确定家庭STEM交流的类型和预测因素。这个职业项目的实证研究结果和教育活动将阐明和传播家庭动态如何影响黑人、西班牙裔和白人妇女在不同生命阶段的职业轨迹。该项目由STEM教育核心研究理事会（ECR）计划资助，该计划支持推进STEM学习和学习环境基础研究、扩大STEM参与和STEM劳动力发展的工作。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 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program is a National Science Foundation-wide activity that offers awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education, to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization, and to build a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. This CAREER project investigates how parental messages facilitate the resilience of girls and women from diverse ethnic/racial backgrounds in STEM career development. The project explores the idea that family support is critical for encouraging interest in STEM and sustaining career progress through adulthood. However, parents may also communicate messages (e.g., pressure, marginalization, disengagement) that make it difficult for girls and women to persist and thrive in STEM careers. The results of this study will be integrated with education goals to teach families about effective communication and STEM career options. The study will include a conversation-based card game that engages the family in discussion and stimulate learning about career trajectories, support, and messages in a workshop for parents of high school girls interested in pursuing STEM.This project will consider intersectional identities and diverse lived experiences to understand how different types of family STEM communication influence STEM interests and persistence. Three mixed-methods studies will employ in-depth interview and survey methodologies to identify effective parental messages that facilitate STEM interest and support underrepresented women in STEM throughout their careers. Interviews with Black, Hispanic, and White STEM and non-STEM majors and a survey of parents will identify types and predictors of family STEM communication. The empirical findings and educational activities of this CAREER project will illuminate and disseminate how family dynamics influence the career trajectories of Black, Hispanic, and White women at multiple life stages. This project is funded by the Directorate for STEM Education Core Research (ECR) program, which supports work that advances fundamental research on STEM learning and learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.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.