Who encourages Latina women to feel a sense of identity-safety in STEM environments?

Pietri, Evava S.; Drawbaugh, Montana L.; Lewis, Arielle N.; Johnson, India R.

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103827

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“…The current findings add to previous research, which has found that believing a scientist has had similar experiences with discrimination enhances identification with that scientist (see Pietri, Drawbaugh, et al, 2019; Pietri, Johnson, Ozgumus, & Young, 2018). However, across these past studies, the scientist shared a marginalized identity with participants, and thus women perceived the scientist as facing the same mistreatment in STEM (Pietri, Drawbaugh, et al, 2019; Pietri, Johnson, Ozgumus, & Young, 2018).…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Additional past work has demonstrated that because Latinas tend to be more sensitive to discrimination due to their ethnicity than their gender (Levin et al, 2002), they believed a Latino male scientist had more similar experiences with discrimination than a White female scientist. Thus, Latinas identified more strongly with a Latino male scientist than a White female scientist (Pietri, Drawbaugh, et al, 2019). In this example, Latinas felt similar to a male scientist with an overlapping ethnicity because they believed this male scientist had faced comparable identity-based (i.e., ethnic) adversity.…”

Section: Enhancing Identification With Scientists Via Perceptions Of Identity-based Adversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Past research has specifically tested whether believing a scientist has had similar discrimination experiences encourages identification with that scientist, and as a result, in these previous studies, the scientist always had at least one matching identity (i.e., ethnicity or gender; Pietri, Drawbaugh, et al, 2019; Pietri, Johnson, Ozgumus, & Young, 2018). Of importance, women may struggle to believe a man who holds dual roles as both a scientist and father (i.e., a father scientist) has had similar experiences with discrimination.…”

Section: Enhancing Identification With Scientists Via Perceptions Of Identity-based Adversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, we explored whether beyond promoting positive outgroup attitudes, feelings of empathy can encourage women’s identification with an outgroup (i.e., a father) scientist. Differing from past research (i.e., Pietri, Johnson, Ozgumus, & Young, 2018; Pietri, Drawbaugh, et al, 2019), we examined whether knowing a scientist has a different devalued identity in STEM would encourage identification with that scientist.…”

Section: Enhancing Identification With Scientists Via Perceptions Of Identity-based Adversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Maybe He Is Relatable Too: Encouraging Women to Identify With Male Scientists by Highlighting Bias Against Fathers

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Successful exemplars can act as guides to help women navigate environments where they have traditionally been underrepresented. For an exemplar to be a guide, it is important for women to feel similar to the exemplar. When women identify with an exemplar, that person also can become a role model to promote belonging. Because men are overrepresented in many STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, we aimed to understand when and why women might identify with a male scientist. Across five experiments, relative to control information, information about constraining masculine stereotypes for men in caretaking roles increased female participants’ beliefs that a father and computer scientist had faced bias. Believing this father scientist had encountered mistreatment in turn encouraged feelings of empathy and identification with the scientist. Moreover, teaching women about masculine stereotypes enhanced interest in working with the scientist (Experiments 1b, 3a, and 3b) and attraction to his science and technology focused school (Experiment 3b). Although we did not find that our manipulation directly influenced belonging in STEM, identifying with the father scientist correlated with higher feelings of belonging. Thus, highlighting identity-based struggles (i.e., fatherhood difficulties) may be one strategy to help make male scientists more relatable and approachable. Additional online materials for this article are available on PWQ’s website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0361684320972118

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“…Institutions should provide access to inspirational female STEM role models, including hosting events featuring prominent female scientists (Pietri et al, 2019; Stout et al, 2011). However, less prestigious events can create heavy service expectations for female scientists (Guarino & Borden, 2017), which may not benefit promotion and career success (Yoder, 2018).…”

Section: Evidence-based Policy To Boost Women’s Sustainable Representmentioning

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Boosting the Sustainable Representation of Women in STEM With Evidence-Based Policy Initiatives

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Women are missing from Science, Technology, Education, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, undermining intellectual inclusivity, meritocracy goals, national competitiveness, and high-quality advances. Solutions require not only hiring more women, but boosting their sustainable representation (i.e., their lasting, substantial presence and valued engagement). Evidence-based policies can shift organizational culture, enabling women’s full and durable participation. The present review presents (1) numerous causes of women’s underrepresentation in STEM and (2) evidence-based interventions to tackling these causes. Specific policy initiatives (derived from the scientific evidence) would promote the sustainable representation of women in STEM.

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To conceal or reveal: Identity‐conscious diversity ideologies facilitate sexual minority identity disclosure

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Sexual minorities continue to face workplace discrimination, which leads to them experiencing concerns about disclosing their own sexual identities. Despite the benefits of disclosure, relatively little research has examined what organizational factors can work together to foster disclosure of a sexual minority identity. Across five experiments (N = 1662), we examined two main factors: diversity ideologies and information about diversity climate. Sexual minorities were more willing to disclose in organizations with diversity messages conveying that they value group differences (an identity‐conscious ideology) relative to those that downplay differences (an identity‐blind ideology). Identity‐conscious ideologies also increased belonging, perceptions of fair treatment and perceptions of LGBTQ+ representation. Despite expectations that contradictory evidence demonstrating a negative diversity climate might create mistrust and impede disclosure, the benefits of an identity‐conscious ideology persisted in the face of a negative diversity climate. These findings point to the complexities of facilitating visible sexual minority representation in many workplace environments.

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Who encourages Latina women to feel a sense of identity-safety in STEM environments?

Cited by 39 publications

References 44 publications

Maybe He Is Relatable Too: Encouraging Women to Identify With Male Scientists by Highlighting Bias Against Fathers

Maybe He Is Relatable Too: Encouraging Women to Identify With Male Scientists by Highlighting Bias Against Fathers

Boosting the Sustainable Representation of Women in STEM With Evidence-Based Policy Initiatives

To conceal or reveal: Identity‐conscious diversity ideologies facilitate sexual minority identity disclosure

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