The perceived importance of developmental relationships on women undergraduates pursuit of science
Autor/in:
Downing, Roberta A.; Crosby, Faye J.; Blake-Beard, Stacy
Quelle: Psychology of women quarterly : official journal of division 35 (psychology of women) of the American Psychological Association, Vol. 29 (2005) No. 4, S. 419-126
Inhalt: "Using a survey of women science majors, we tested the assumption that women mentors and other women guides help women students pursue the sciences. The survey explicitly distinguished among three types of guides: mentors (who provide psychosocial support), sponsors (who provide instrumental support), and role models (who act as examples) encountered before and during college. We found that over 90% of the women had a guide of one type or another, that mentors were most influential to women's pursuit of science, and that guides during college were more influential than guides prior to college. Participants reported having more female than male guides overall, but that some of the most influential guides were men." (author's abstract)
Quelle: Wien: Verl. Österreich (Materialien zur Förderung von Frauen in der Wissenschaft, 20), 2005. 405 S.
Inhalt: "Was können die in den vergangenen Jahren entstandenen Mentoring-Programme zur Verbesserung der beruflichen Laufbahnen und Positionen von Wissenschafterinnen an den Universitäten leisten? Welche Erfahrungen haben Nachwuchswissenschafterinnen mit den neuen Initiativen gemacht? Vor dem Hintergrund der tief greifenden Umstrukturierungen des tertiären Bildungssektors zieht der vorliegende Sammelband anhand des Wiener Mentoring-Programms mu:v und von Mentoringinitiativen aus vier weiteren Ländern eine Zwischenbilanz über diese und weitere Fragen. Damit wirft er jenseits von traditioneller Frauenförderung auch einen kritisch-visionären Blick hin zu strukturrelevanter Gleichstellungspolitik." (Autorenreferat). Inhaltsverzeichnis: Elisabeth Gehrer: Vorwort (9); Evi Genetti, Herta Nöbauer/Waltraud Schlögl: Im Spannungsfeld universitärer Kultur- und Strukturveränderung. Eine Einführung (11-26); Evi Genetti, Herta Nöbauer, Waltraud Schlögl: Questioning Structural and Cultural Change in Academia. An Introduction (27-41); National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine: Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend. On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering (45-61); Barbara Bagilhole: An Investigation of the Arguments for Mentoring Women Academics in the UK, and an Assessment of a Regional Collaborative Mentoring Scheme (63-79); Katharina von Salis: Mentoring à la carte an den Schweizer Universitäten (81-113); Ursula Meyerhofer: (Peer-)Mentoring für Wissenschaftlerinnen und die Bedingungen einer nachhaltigen akademischen Laufbahnförderung: Grenzen und Chancen (115-136); Dagmar Höppel: MuT für Wissenschafterinnen. Erfahrungen aus Baden-Württemberg (137-162); Herta Nöbauer, Waltraud Schlögl: Zwischen 'Beschleunigung' und 'Ent-Individualisierung' von Erfahrung: Mentoring als 'politisierte' Praxis (163-183); Gerlinde Mauerer: In Bewegung bleiben. Mentoring-Erfahrungen 2001-2003 (185-197); Adelheid Pichler, Gabriele Sorgo: Kommunikation und Kooperation zwischen ungleichen Partnerinnen im universitären Feld. Zwei kurze Problemaufrisse zum Mentoring-Programm mu:v (199-218); Birgit Buchinger, Ulrike Gschwandtner: Bewegende Beziehungen. Ergebnisse der Evaluierung des Mentoring-Programms mu:v an der Universität Wien (221-224); Abschnitt I (225-237); Abschnitt II: Auswertung der Interviews und Workshops mit den Mentees (238-377); Abschnitt III: Überprüfung der Ziele und Entwicklung eines Mentoring-Modells (378-386); Herta Nöbauer, Waltraud Schlögl, Evi Genetti, Birgit Buchinger, Ulrike Gschwandtner: Standards und Empfehlungen für Mentoring im universitären Feld (387-392).
Theater as a community-building strategy for women in engineering : theory and practice
Autor/in:
Chesler, Naomi C.; Chesler, Mark A.
Quelle: Journal of women and minorities in science and engineering, Vol. 11 (2005) No. 1, S. 83-96
Inhalt: "Previously, the authors have suggested that peer mentoring through a caring community would improve the quality of life for female faculty members in engineering and could have a positive effect on retention and career advancement. Here, the authors present the background psychosocial literature for choosing participatory theater as a strategy to develop a caring community and report on a pilot study in which participatory theater activities were used within a workshop format for untenured female faculty members in engineering. The authors identify the key differences between participatory theater and other strategies for community building that may enhance participants' sense of commonality and the strength and utility of their community as a mentoring and support mechanism and discuss the ways in which these efforts could have a broader, longer term impact." (author's abstract)
CEWS Kategorie:Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Mentoring und Training
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
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)