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Increasing gender diversity amongst intending engineering majors using social networks: A work in progress

机译：使用社交网络在有意工程专业的学生中增加性别多样性：一项正在进行的工作

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Interventions aimed at increasing gender diversity within the engineering workforce have proven insufficient in aggregate to yield transformative outcomes on a national scale. This is in contrast with results disseminated from numerous discrete intervention efforts implemented across the K-16 continuum, which have proven effective in enhancing awareness and increasing motivation for participation in STEM fields amongst participating females. One possible explanation for this apparent paradox is that the success of individual disjoint interventions is attenuated in time by a lack of contextual and temporal continuity between adjacent efforts. While such a proposed mechanism may be addressed by expanding resource allocations in order to increase the magnitude of such offerings or to improve coordination between them through a centralized administrative framework, appropriately constructed virtual social networks may offer an effective low-cost alternative for addressing this deficiency. Namely, by providing virtual access to an array of potential female colleagues at various stages of the educational and professional pathway, such networks may help support potential STEM enrollees between exposures to in-person interventions, thus increasing the efficacy of the aggregate intervention system. Our current work seeks to identify the feasibility of such an approach by examining the behaviors of targeted females at various stages of the educational and professional spectrum as it relates to their utilization of social networks. In particular, we seek to identify the feasibility of supporting such interactions through participants' existing social networking activities. In addition, we seek to explore potential objections to participation which may arise on the basis of perceived privacy concerns.
机译：事实证明，旨在提高工程人员队伍中性别多样性的干预措施不足以在全国范围内产生变革性成果。与之形成鲜明对比的是，从整个K-16连续运动中实施的众多离散干预措施中获得的结果已被证明有效地提高了参与女性的意识，并提高了他们对参与STEM领域的积极性。这种明显的悖论的一种可能解释是，由于相邻工作之间缺乏上下文和时间上的连续性，个体不相干干预的成功随着时间的流逝而减弱。虽然可以通过扩大资源分配来解决这种提议的机制，以增加此类产品的规模或通过集中的管理框架来改善它们之间的协调，但是适当构建的虚拟社交网络可以为解决这一缺陷提供一种有效的低成本替代方案。也就是说，通过在教育和专业途径的各个阶段提供对潜在女性同事的虚拟访问，这样的网络可以帮助支持面对面干预之间的潜在STEM参与者，从而提高总体干预系统的效率。我们当前的工作旨在通过检查目标女性在教育和专业领域各个阶段的行为（与社交网络的利用相关）来确定这种方法的可行性。特别是，我们试图确定通过参与者现有的社交网络活动支持此类互动的可行性。此外，我们力求探讨潜在的对参与的反对意见，这些反对意见可能会基于对隐私的关注而引起。

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