Widening paths to success, improving the environment, and moving toward lessons learned from the experiences of Powre and CBL awardees
Autor/in:
Rosser, Sue V.; Daniels, Jane Z.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 2, S. 131-148
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Inhalt: "To better understand the barriers and discouragements encountered by female faculty members in science and engineering, this article compares the experience of National Science Foundation-funded Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education (POWRE) awardees and Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) Professorship recipients. Because most POWRE awardees work at research institutions, and many CBL professors teach at small liberal arts colleges, this study helps in understanding the experiences of female faculty members across a broad spectrum of academic settings. Their experiences suggest positive changes in institutional policies or practices to increase the satisfaction, retention, and success of female faculty members infields in which they are the least well represented. The retention of female faculty members becomes critical for attracting undergraduate students as they consider the wisdom of choosing careers in academia." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Karriere; Akademikerin; Frauenförderung; Forschungspolitik; USA; Nordamerika
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Closing the gender gap in technical disciplines : an investigative study
Autor/in:
Gokhale, Anu A.; Stier, Ken
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 2, S. 30-39
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Inhalt: "The goal of this study was to investigate the efficacy of curriculum and instructional techniques in a technical core course to create a more conducive learning environment for women. The technical core course introduced technology majors to mechanical systems, electronics, and fluid power principles through lectures and laboratory work. Female students already enrolled in the department and female alumnae of the program were surveyed. The students' responses to the survey showed that although the female participants in the study were pleased with the instructors, the curriculum, and the instruction they received, they had recommendations for modifying the instruction." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Ingenieurwissenschaft; Studentin; Nachwuchsförderung; Monoedukation
CEWS Kategorie:Geschlechterverhältnis, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Building a structure of support : an inside look at the structure of women in engineering programs
Autor/in:
Knight, Meredith Thompson; Cunningham, Christine M.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 1, S. 1-20
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Inhalt: "Over the past 20 years, colleges and universities across the country have developed Women in Engineering (WIE) and Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) programs as resources to promote the recruitment and retention of women in college engineering. As part of the Women's Experiences in College Engineering project, a series of interviews were conducted with WIE and WISE directors at 26 colleges and universities in the United States. The results of these interviews were compiled to gain an understanding of the structure of WIE and WISE programs and the experience and advice that program directors have for others who may be interested in such programs." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Netzwerk; Nachwuchsförderung; Ingenieurwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaft
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Using gender schema theory to examine gender equity in computing : a preliminary study
Autor/in:
Agosto, Denise E.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 1, S. 37-53
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Schlagwörter:Informatik; USA; Geschlechterforschung; Nordamerika
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Career, family, and institutional variables in the work lives of academic women in the chemical sciences
Autor/in:
Fassinger, Ruth E.; Scantlebury, Kathryn; Richmond, Geraldine
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 4, S. 297-316
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Inhalt: "This article presents quantitative results of a study of 139 academic women in the chemical sciences who participated in a professional development program sponsored by the Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists. The study investigated variables frequently examined in the vocational psychology of women: approaches to achievement, coping strategies, career advancement, the home-work interface, workplace climate, and mentoring. The article presents and discusses results in the context of unique issues faced by women in scientific careers." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Akademikerin; Chemie; Karriere; Familie-Beruf; Mentoring; USA; Wissenschaftlerin; Nordamerika
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Wissenschaft als Beruf
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The assessing women in engineering project : a model for sustainable and profitable collaboration
Autor/in:
Marra, Rose M.; Bogue, Barbara
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 3, S. 283-296
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Inhalt: "Women in engineering (WIE) programs work to recruit and retain women in undergraduate engineering programs and are a crucial part of the nation's effort to attract more women into engineering professions. For WIE programs to be maximally effective, they must have access to validated assessment instruments for measuring the effectiveness of their recruitment and retention activities. The Assessing Women in Engineering (AWE) project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, aims to develop such instruments. This article describes the AWE project's unique collaboration between a WIE director and an assessment professional to develop exportable assessment instruments and models for WIE programs nationwide, thus allowing them to assess their programs' activities and ultimately provide data for making well-informed evaluation decisions." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Nachwuchsförderung; USA; Ingenieurwissenschaft; Förderungsprogramm; Nordamerika
CEWS Kategorie:Fördermaßnahmen, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Improving the graduate school experience for women in mathematics : the EDGE program
Autor/in:
Bozeman, Sylvia T.; Hughes, Rhonda J.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 3, S. 243-254
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Inhalt: "For over a decade, Spelman College and Bryn Mawr College have collaborated on initiatives designed to increase the presence of women, with a special focus on women of color, in the upper ranks of mathematical science. The most recent initiative is the EDGE Program (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education), which addresses this challenge by attempting to decrease the loss of talent from U.S. graduate programs. To this end, the program provides structures that help women make successful transitions from undergraduate into graduate mathematics programs, redirect or refocus their ambitions when programs are inappropriate or unsuitable, and, ultimately, enable them to 'accumulate advantages' that will empower them and foster success in their careers. A broader goal of this program is to diversify the mathematics community by creating models for mathematics programs that allow people from all backgrounds and cultures to thrive, advance, and contribute to the profession." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Frauenförderung; Förderungsprogramm; Naturwissenschaft; Wissenschaftlerin; Akademikerin; Mathematik; USA; Managing Diversity; Nordamerika; Quantität
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Bildung und Erziehung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Does gender affect a scientist's research output in evolutionary ecology?
Autor/in:
Bonnet, Xavier; Shine, Richard; Lourdais, Olivier
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 4, S. 353-360
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Inhalt: "To examine how an author's gender influences his or her research output, the authors analyzed (not simply scored) more than 900 published articles in nine leading scientific journals in the field of evolutionary ecology. Women were strongly underrepresented in all countries, but this bias is decreasing. Men and women differed significantly in their fields of research, with women preferentially conducting projects on behavior rather than evolution or ecology. Most aspects of the structure of published articles and the level of conceptual generality were unaffected by an author's gender. Because discriminatory practices by reviewers and editors can be manifested in attributes of the articles that survive the review process, the latter result suggests a lack of gender-based discrimination during the review process. Gender differences in research output presumably reflect a complex array of genetic and social influences; a clearer understanding of these causal factors may help identify (and thus reduce) gender-based discrimination." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Diskriminierung; Chancengleichheit; internationaler Vergleich; Ökologie; Wissenschaftlerin; Geschlechterforschung
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The benefits of mentoring for engineering students
Autor/in:
Wallace, Jean E.; Haines, Valerie A.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 4, S. 377-391
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Inhalt: "The authors examined the benefits of mentoring for female and male engineering students and whether the benefits of mentoring differ depending on the sex of the mentor. Kram's framework of career development, psychosocial, and role-modeling functions was used to examine the benefits of mentoring for 1,069 engineering students. It was found that students with mentors were more socially integrated into their academic programs than students without mentors and that male mentors were more effective in this function than female mentors. Few students reported psychosocial benefits from being mentored, although female proteges reported more if they had female mentors. An unexpected finding for the role-modeling benefits was that mentored students reported less commitment to engineering careers than students without mentors. The authors close with a discussion of the implications of these findings and suggestions for future research in this area." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Mentoring; Student; Karriere; Geschlechterverhältnis; Studentin; Ingenieurwissenschaft; Quantität
CEWS Kategorie:Mentoring und Training, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Recruiting female faculty members in science and engineering : preliminary evaluation of one intervention model
Autor/in:
Stewart, Abigail J.; LaVaque-Manty, Danielle; Malley, Janet E.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 10 (2004) No. 4, S. 361-375
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Inhalt: "The representation of female faculty members in science and engineering fields lags behind that of their counterparts in the social sciences and humanities and also fails to keep pace with the production of female science and engineering doctorates. Research has shown that equity cannot be achieved by waiting for women to fill the applicant pool; instead, institutions must intervene by changing hiring practices and retention policies. This article describes and evaluates early results of one intervention at the University of Michigan: the creation of a faculty committee designed to improve the recruitment and hiring of female faculty members through peer education. One hiring cycle after the committee's creation, the authors found (a) reports of changed practices in some search committees and departments, (b) an increase in the number and proportion of new hires who were women, and (c) a substantial increase in the knowledge and motivation of the members of the recruitment committee with respect to improving the climate for female faculty members." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Evaluation; Ingenieurwissenschaft; Bildungspolitik; USA; Nachwuchsförderung; Naturwissenschaft; Nordamerika; Quantität
CEWS Kategorie:Fördermaßnahmen, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz