Undergraduate Women’s Physics Identity: Importance of Leadership and Mentorship

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 1:15 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Gender Equity for All Students (Table 16)

Abstract

This qualitative survey and interview study explores how undergraduate women developed a physics identity. Our team analyzed 120 survey responses and 15 interviews to understand how women in physics define physics identity and how our theorized factors (leadership, mentorship, and career conceptualization) were associated with an individual’s physics identity.

Authors

• Rocio Vaneza Quiroga Velasquez, George Mason University

• Laura M. Akesson, George Mason University

• Nancy M. Holincheck, George Mason University

• Jessica Rosenberg, George Mason University

• Ben Dreyfus, George Mason University