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5/24/2021 | 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM | THE POTENTIAL FOR MENTORING AS A TOOL TO INCREASE GENDER DIVERSITY IN THE FRESHWATER SCIENCES | Virtual Platform

THE POTENTIAL FOR MENTORING AS A TOOL TO INCREASE GENDER DIVERSITY IN THE FRESHWATER SCIENCES

Geoscientists are engaged in globally critical research focused on climate change, flooding, water quality, and other issues associated with freshwater ecosystems. While we know having gender diverse teams lead to the creation of exceptional science, women represent only 25% of the geoscience workforce. Thus, it is important to encourage and retain women throughout their education, especially during undergraduate degrees. Our team with expertise in the geosciences, gender, and educational psychology developed PROGRES (PROmoting Geoscience Research, Education, and SuccesS), a role modeling and mentoring-based program, to quantify the role of mentorship on undergraduate retention. Women in PROGRESS attend a regional workshop where they are exposed to geoscience careers and female role models, provided access to a closed Facebook page for resources and peer-mentoring, and matched with a female mentor for professional mentoring. Our evidence-based program has shown that PROGRESS members are 5x more likely to be retained and that the critical elements of mentorship: inspiration, inoculation, and introduction, are necessary to increase retention in STEM degrees. Interventions like PROGRESS can increase the likelihood of women remaining in the geosciences and could be implemented to improve gender diversity in the freshwater sciences.

Career
Women
Inclusivity

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Sandra Clinton, PhD (), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, sclinto1@uncc.edu;