From a Woman's Point of View: Barriers and Facilitators to Success in Science and Engineering, 1993 (doi:10.7910/DVN/OBG4A3)

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From a Woman's Point of View: Barriers and Facilitators to Success in Science and Engineering, 1993

doi:10.7910/DVN/OBG4A3

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2007-11-28

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Ruskus, Joan; Williamson, Cynthia L.; Kelley, Fiona A., 2024, "From a Woman's Point of View: Barriers and Facilitators to Success in Science and Engineering, 1993", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OBG4A3, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:3:BpWxqrLA4u7gS8dmzsrXUw== [fileUNF]

From a Woman's Point of View: Barriers and Facilitators to Success in Science and Engineering, 1993

doi:10.7910/DVN/OBG4A3

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Ruskus, Joan

Williamson, Cynthia L.

Kelley, Fiona A.

Harvard Dataverse

Murray Research Archive

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OBG4A3

Social Sciences

mra murraydata, 501-1000, female, mixed, white, middle, 1, yes, Work, Women

This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of the National Science Foundation Visiting Professorships for Women (VPW) program designed to increase the participation of women in science and engineering fields. It examined female scientists' and engineers' perceptions of any problems facing them in pursuit of their careers, and asked about the types of support which facilitated their progress. <br /><br /> Surveys were administered nationally to three groups of women scientists and engineers: women who had received a VPW award (awardees), women who had applied for a VPW award but were not selected (applicants), and women who had received NSF research grants individually (grantees). Those who received the awardee survey included all VPW awardees from 1982-1990 (N=233). The grantee survey was given to 340 randomly selected women from 2,768 who received NSF grants from 1982-1990, and the applicant survey went to 340 randomly selected women from 604 who applied to the VPW program between 1982-1990. The overall response rate for all three groups was 79% (81% for awardees, 73% for applicants, and 82% for grantees). Demographically, those surveyed reflected the general population of female scientists and engineers in that the group was mostly white; three-quarters were married, and over half had no children under the age of 18. The average age of the sample was 44, but included women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s and older. <br /><br /> Questions for the surveys were developed from information generated by four focus groups with 27 women from the three groups sampled. Each survey included questions about professional status, life circumstances, productivity, job satisfaction, the VPW application process (for awardees and applicants), and the VPW experience (for awardees only). The surveys all consisted mainly of closed-ended questions, but did include some open-ended questions as well.<br /><br /> The Murray Research Archive holds both numeric file data and open-ended responses (electronic text files). Follow-up of this sample may only be performed in collaboration with the principal investigator(s).

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Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University

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Submission of the following <a href= "http://www.murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study.

I will use these data solely for the purposes stated in my application to use data, detailed in a written research proposal. I will honor all agreements and conditions made between the Contributor of the Data and the study participants, and between the Contributor of the Data and the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Harvard University, as specified in the Memorandum of Agreement.

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I will include a bibliographic citation acknowledging the use of these data in any publication or presentation in which these data are used. Such citations will appear in footnotes or in the reference section of any such manuscript. I understand the guideline in "How to Cite This Dataset" described in the Summary of this study.

Murray Research Archive will list my publication and manuscripts on the Archive website when I submit a bibliographic citation or title of the manuscript, and indicate the Henry A. Murray Research Archive data used. Doing this will also help Henry A. Murray Research Archive to provide funding agencies with essential information about use of archival resources, to fulfill requirements of some memoranda of agreement, and to promote the broader exchange of information about research activities.

<b>The original restrictions on the dataset have expired.</b> <br /><b>All applications for follow-up will require IRB approval from the applicant's home institution as well as approval from the Director of the Murray.</b>

<div style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ul style="list-style-type: decimal;" ><li> The Murray Archive (the Distributor) has granted me a revocable license to use this dataset solely for the purposes of conducting research, and the Distributor may terminate this license at any time and for any reason. </li> <li> I will use the dataset solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations, except when identification is authorized in writing by the Distributor. </li> <li>I will produce no links among the Distributor’s datasets or among the Distributor’s data and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations. </li> <li>I represent that neither I, nor anyone I know, has any prior knowledge of the possible identities of any study participants in any dataset that I am being licensed to use. </li> <li> I will not knowingly divulge any information that could be used to identify individual participants in the study, nor will I attempt to identify or contact any study participant, and I agree to use any precautions necessary to prevent such identification. </li> <li> I will make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. If I suspect that I might recognize or know a study participant, I will immediately inform the Distributor, and I will not use or retain a copy of data regarding that study participant. If these measures to resolve an identity disclosure are not sufficient, the Distributor may terminate my use of the dataset. </li> <li> I will not reproduce the dataset except as is necessary for my scholarly purposes. I will destroy the dataset upon the completion of my scholarly work with it. </li> <li> I will not share data from the dataset (in any form or by any means) with any third party, including other members of my research team, as I understand that all users of data must obtain the data directly from the Distributor. </li> <li> I will make appropriate acknowledgement of the contributor of the dataset as well as the Distributor in any manuscript or presentation (published or unpublished) using the citation standard documented here: <a href="http://thedata.org/citation"> http://thedata.org/citation</a> </li> <li> THE DISTRIBUTOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY OPERATION OF LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING OR RELATING TO THE DATASET. </li> </ul> </div>

Submission of the following <a href= "https://murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study. <br /><br /> <b>The original restrictions on the dataset have expired.</b> <br /><b>All applications for follow-up will require IRB approval from the applicant's home institution as well as approval from the Director of the Murray.</b>

• Number of cases: 632

• No. of variables per record: 287

• Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

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Data for Study in Tab Delimited Format

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Clarifications of discrepancies in the data files

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Data for Study in SPSS Portable Format

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Legal agreement between data depositor and Murray Archive

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Overview: abstract, research methodology, publications, and other info.

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