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DESCRIPTION:Understanding Gender Disparities in Early STEM Careers: A Mixed
  Methods Analysis\n\nContemporary debates about STEM education and the STE
 M labor force center around claims that there is both a shortage of traine
 d workers for the scientific and technical needs of employees\, and that t
 his shortage could be ameliorated with larger numbers of women and minorit
 ies trained in STEM disciplines where they are currently underrepresented.
  Despite numerous initiatives to increase the presence of women and minori
 ties in STEM fields\, their representation in the STEM workforce lags thei
 r educational gains.As of 2021\, women accounted for only 35% of STEM work
 ers\, and minorities were even less well represented. The composition of t
 he STEM labor force is shaped not only by who enters into STEM jobs follow
 ing college graduate\, but who remains working in STEM – and previous re
 search found that women were significantly more likely to leave STEM occup
 ations than were professional women\, especially early in their career. To
  better understand the factors shaping the composition of the STEM labor f
 orce\, in 2014 my colleagues and I began working on an NSF-funded study (A
 ward # 1432522)\, “Early Career Transitions into STEM Employment: Proces
 ses Shaping Retention and Satisfaction\,” a mixed-methods data collectio
 n conducted at two large universities. A survey of graduating students in 
 Chemical Engineering and Chemistry was conducted in the spring of 2015 and
  2016\, and respondents were followed up in 2019 and 2020.We also conducte
 d in-depth qualitative interviews with a sample of 100 recent graduates in
  Chemical Engineering and Chemistry\, beginning approximately one year pos
 t-graduation and then yearly through 2020. Today’s talk reports the find
 ings from several papers resulting from this data collection\, supplemente
 d with additional research utilizing SESTAT (Scientists and Engineers Stat
 istical Data System) data and the American Community Survey (ACS). Quantit
 ative analysis of factors shaping entrance into STEM jobs and retention fi
 nd few gender differences in the early career\, though differences emerge 
 upon examining job search processes and experiences in early career with t
 he qualitative data. Internships are central in the early career stage. Wo
 men experience a harder time landing their initial job in STEM and are cha
 llenged by growing demands for long work hours in their early careers\, re
 lative to their male counterparts. Results from SESTAT and ACS data sugges
 t that gender differences in attrition from STEM jobs may not occur until 
 later in the career life course. Our quantitative and qualitative findings
  suggest a need to better understand the processes differentiating men’s
  and women’s experiences in the early career stages.\n\nSharon Sassler r
 eceived her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University in 1995\, and joined 
 the Cornell faculty in 2005. A social demographer\, Sassler’s research e
 xamines factors shaping the activities of young adults and their life cour
 se transitions into school and work\, relationships\, and parenthood\, and
  how these transitions vary by gender\, race/ethnicity\, and social class.
  One stream of her research explores the tempo of and outcomes associated 
 with relationship progression into cohabiting unions and/or marriage. She 
 also examines outcomes associated with parenthood\, among unmarried and ma
 rried young adults. Her third area of study focuses on the retention and p
 romotion of women and minorities in science and technology (STEM) careers\
 , including how early career experiences and the gender composition of the
  field is associated with retention and the gender wage gap in STEM jobs. 
 She is currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Brooks Scho
 ol of Public Policy at Cornell\, and Director of Cornell’s Center for So
 cial Sciences Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute (QuIRI).
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SUMMARY:CBE Seminar Series - Sharon Sassler
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/cbe_seminar_series_-_sharon_
 sassler
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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