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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Professional Societies' Questionnaires and Reports on Women Faculty of Color

The Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology (CPST), in partnership with the American Institute of Physics (AIP) is engaged in a project to enhance the collection, reporting and use of data about women faculty in STEM, with a focus on women of color. We will leverage these data not only to document the existing situation for women of color in STEM, but also as a tool to enable transformation. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE: Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination (PAID) grant. The project summary document can be found here. Our four-part effort involves:

(1)

Production of four white papers reporting research findings from existing national data sources about career paths of women, especially women of color with doctoral degrees, to be disseminated widely via conferences, meetings, disciplinary societies, and CPST’s website;

(2)

Meetings with various key professional society representatives to inventory existing faculty data collections and then improve the comparability of data collected across societies;

(3)

Convene a national conference revisiting the important report titled “The Double Bind: The Price of Being a Minority Woman in Science” (Malcom, Hall and Brown 1975); and

(4)

Engage the services of a nationally-known program evaluator to ensure that the sponsored work is reaching intended audiences and impacting transformative efforts as intended.

For additional information, please contact the co-PIs for the project: Lisa Frehill, Research Director, CPST or Rachel Ivie, Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics.

This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, HRD#0820057. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.