{"670346":{"#nid":"670346","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dean Kaye Husbands Fealing Co-Authors Book Chapter on Measuring the Gender Gap in Innovation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe gender gap in science, technology, and innovation is a well-documented and persistent problem. According to Kaye Husbands Fealing, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, measuring both the gender gap and the reforms created to address it are necessary first steps in rectifying the problem. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cGender equality is No. 5 on the list of 17 United Nations\u2019 Sustainable Development Goals. From AI and energy innovation to advances in health and medicine, measuring and creating policy to address gender gaps holds enormous value for everyone,\u201d said Husbands Fealing.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn a chapter of the newly released \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.e-elgar.com\/shop\/usd\/handbook-of-innovation-indicators-and-measurement-9781800883017.html\u0022\u003EHandbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.e-elgar.com\/shop\/usd\/handbook-of-innovation-indicators-and-measurement-9781800883017.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E(second edition)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E entitled \u201cGender and Innovation: Indicators and Measurement Gaps,\u201d Husbands Fealing and her co-authors, Georgia Tech Public Policy Ph.D. alumna Aubrey DeVeny Incorvaia and Professor Londa Schiebinger at Stanford University, discuss the limitations of current measurement strategies and suggest new ways to quantify and address the underrepresentation of women and marginalized groups in scientific innovation. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPrevious scholarship by Husbands Fealing has established the value of gathering data that includes gender. In an article published in the \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/full\/10.1086\/705514\u0022\u003EAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E in 2019, Husbands Fealing and her co-authors used a data set of federal workers \u2014 which allowed comparison of outcomes by gender \u2014 to advance our understanding of the local processes that cause gender pay gaps in U.S. federal science agencies. The article won the Devah Pager Outstanding Article Award from the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility section of the American Sociological Association in 2020.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHusbands Fealing noted that reforms which focus only on \u201cfixing women\u201d \u2014 for example, with additional training \u2014 fail to achieve equitable outcomes. If they are to effect positive change, she said, policies must also address the cultural and institutional issues that present barriers to women\u2019s success \u2014 including pay gaps, implicit bias in hiring and promotion, and other factors. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn order to even the scales, researchers need complete and accurate data to help identify where the problems lie and how gender disparities change over time. But of the five most often-used platforms for collecting and analyzing such data, only two address gender. What\u2019s more, none of the existing platforms allow researchers to study intersectional identities that include other factors such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and disability. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHusbands Fealing also serves as vice chair of the National Science Foundation Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering, which delivered its report, \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj\/https:\/nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov\/2023-08\/CEOSE-Report-2023_1.pdf?VersionId=EpkpUgJGSR0U5WuA6ZpILyALmytjW5Cx\u0022\u003EMaking Visible the Invisible: Understanding Intersectionality\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, to Congress earlier this year. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAs an initial step, Husbands Fealing and her colleagues recommend that all existing data platforms and indicators for innovation collect information that allows researchers to compare outcomes by gender. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cAt a minimum, we need to account for gender in our data-gathering,\u201d said Husbands Fealing. \u201cIf we are to achieve our goal of equity, we need to advance evidence-based policies that include expectations for intersectional analysis throughout the research and development process.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe article \u201cGender Pay Gaps in U.S. Federal Science Agencies: An Organizational Approach\u201d was published September 2019 in the \u003Cem\u003EAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003C\/em\u003E. It is available at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1086\/705514\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1086\/705514\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EKaye Husbands Fealing, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, co-authored a new book chapter on measuring and addressing the gender gap in science, technology, and innovation.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Kaye Husbands Fealing, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, co-authored a new book chapter on measuring and addressing the gender gap in science, technology, and innovation."}],"uid":"35777","created_gmt":"2023-10-11 15:40:31","changed_gmt":"2023-10-16 15:29:51","author":"Stephanie Kadel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672004":{"id":"672004","type":"image","title":"Kaye Husbands Fealing, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts","body":"\u003Cp\u003EKaye Husbands Fealing, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1697038881","gmt_created":"2023-10-11 15:41:21","changed":"1697038881","gmt_changed":"2023-10-11 15:41:21","alt":"a photo of Kaye Husbands Fealing, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts","file":{"fid":"255180","name":"KHF headshot mercury.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/11\/KHF%20headshot%20mercury.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/11\/KHF%20headshot%20mercury.png","mime":"image\/png","size":147987,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/10\/11\/KHF%20headshot%20mercury.png?itok=mcl_gion"}}},"media_ids":["672004"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"171777","name":"kaye husbands fealing"},{"id":"174523","name":"Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stephanie.kadel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EStephanie N. 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