Mapping U.S. Education Pathways to Scientific and Technical Careers (Poster 19)

• In Event: Friday Poster Session 7:45 am
  In Poster Session: Social Policy and Education Poster Session

Abstract

Many scientific and technical occupations have been slow to diversify by race, socioeconomic background and gender, especially those with high educational barriers to entry. We introduce a linked dataset created with publicly available data spanning from birth through obtaining a scientific job, informed by a system-level, life course perspective that enables us to (i) gain a better understanding of public education’s role in access to scientific jobs, (ii) compare hypothetical interventions at various stages to estimate when interventions might have the greatest impact, and (iii) estimate when the scientific workforce could represent the diversity of the U.S. population.

Authors

• Katie Spoon, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Clara Boothby, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics

• Kevin G. Welner, University of Colorado - Boulder