When Talent Goes Unrecognized: Gender and Racial Discrimination, Community Recognition, and STEM Postdocs' Science Identities

• In Event: 21.041 - Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Issues in Graduate Education

Abstract

While STEM postdoctoral scholars often enter their positions with strong science identities, women and racially marginalized scholars are often not treated as scientists, which can weaken their science identities. In this study, we analyzed how community recognition mediated the relationship between discrimination and postdoctoral scholars’ science identities.

Authors

• Amanda J Brockman, Vanderbilt University

• Dara Elizabeth Naphan, Vanderbilt University

• Richard Pitt, Vanderbilt University