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Professional Role Confidence:Expertise, Career-Fit and Relational Confidence
Presented to
UC ADVANCE PAID Roundtable 2
By
Carroll SeronDepartment of Criminology, Law and Society
University of California, Irvine
October 17, 2012
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Collaborators
Susan Silbey, MITBrian Rubineau, Cornell
Erin Cech, Rice
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The Sties of Study
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Some Highlights of the Design
6 ½ year panel study, 2003-2008
yearly surveys to panel, n=700in-depth interviews, years 1
and 4, n=64bi-monthly diary submissions,
years 1-4, n=40.
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• Situate my work in context of Ong, et al.• General findings: professional role
confidence is key for behavioral persistence—staying in a STEM field—and intentional persistence—plan to enter a STEM professional field.
• The experiences of minority women in engineering: some broader lessons.
• Policy implications.
Overview of Comments
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“Inside the Double-Bind”
-Among other factors, “academic self-concept, self-efficacy, and overall confidence” are key ingredients for persistence.- The challenges of collaboration: “a practice commonly associated with femininity [that] has been appropriated by the scientific culture with the effect of chiefly helping men and harming women” (Ong 2005: 599).
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Toward a more nuanced understanding of self-confidence
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Expertise confidence: tasks and competencies
required of a professional.
Career-fit confidence: confidence that the professional role will suit the individual.
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Findings: Professional Role Confidence
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Expertise Confidence:
-Men enjoy significantly larger endowments of expertise confidence than women.
-Expertise confidence particularly significant in predicting behavioral persistence, intention to stay in major.
Career-Fit Confidence:
-Men enjoy significantly larger endowments of career-fit confidence than women.
-Career-fit confidence particularly significant in predicting intentional persistence, plans to be an engineer in five years.
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The Experiences of Minority Undergraduates in STEM Fields
For Asian/Asian American and Hispanic students effects of PRC are significantly stronger, net of controls and compared to Whites;
Suggests that minority students in STEM have to work a bit harder to develop expertise and career-fit confidence.
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What of Minority Women in STEM?
-Nine minority women across sites of study;-Based on interviews in years 1 and 4 (n=64);-Important note: ALL stayed in a STEM field.
-So, we may ask: What strategies did these minority women deploy to cultivate professional role confidence, particularly career-fit confidence?
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STEM and Making a Social Difference
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Social Class Matters
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Stereotypes
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Social Support Networks
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Resilience
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Professional Role Confidence = Expertise + Career-Fit
What’s next? Relational Confidence
-Dealing with peers, supervisors, mentors, colleagues;
- Comfort with organizational culture: humor, mannerisms, demeanors, dress.
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Policy Implications:
Success is about more than expertise.
Required seminars that take seriously career-fit and relational confidence for all entering Ph.D. students;
Guided by literature and experts about forms and challenges of racial/ethnic and gender biases in STEM fields;
Explicit discussion of multiple career paths.
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