{"182291":{"#nid":"182291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Pearson Co-Authors National Academies Conference Report","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWillie Pearson\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the \u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of History, Technology, and Society\u003C\/strong\u003E, has co-authored a National Academies conference report, \u0022Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn April 2011, a committee overseen by the National Academies\u0027 standing Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (CWSEM) convened a workshop in Washington, D.C.\u0026nbsp;The workshop presentations came from a group of scholars and professionals who have been working for several years on documenting, analyzing, and interpreting the status of women in selected technical fields around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe presentations demonstrated some of the evidentiary and epistemological challenges that scholars and professionals face in collecting and analyzing data from many different countries and regions (i.e. cross-cultural differences,\u0026nbsp;social\/political\/economic mechanisms impacting women\u0027s participation, and\u0026nbsp;the inverse correlations between levels in the scientific and technical career hierarchy and the number of women in science). \u0022Blueprint\u0022 summarizes the workshop presentations, which provided an opportunity for dialogue about the issues that the authors have been pursuing in their work to date.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27663","created_gmt":"2013-01-10 11:23:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:26","author":"Rebecca Rolfe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-01-10T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-01-10T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"182301":{"id":"182301","type":"image","title":"Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context: Summary of a Workshop","body":null,"created":"1449179062","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:44:22","changed":"1475894828","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:08","alt":"Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context: Summary of a Workshop","file":{"fid":"196063","name":"blueprintforthefuture.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/blueprintforthefuture_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/blueprintforthefuture_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":81845,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/blueprintforthefuture_0.jpg?itok=K3gHZ-dq"}},"72357":{"id":"72357","type":"image","title":"Willie Pearson","body":null,"created":"1449177454","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:34","changed":"1475894656","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:16"}},"media_ids":["182301","72357"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/openbook.php?record_id=13306","title":"Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}