キャリアニュース2020年12月10～23日

In 2018, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) raised the hopes of many LGBTQ scientists when it announced it would explore adding questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to its workforce surveys, starting with the 2021 National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG). But that timeline hasn't held up: Last month, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget approved NSF's plans for its 2021 NSCG—and it doesn't include a question about sexual orientation. A modified gender question with options other than “male” and “female” will appear, but only for a test sample of the 169,000 survey recipients. And the agency has not released the exact wording, which has raised concerns over whether the question will yield reliable data and be sensitive to the transgender community. NSF's suite of seven workforce surveys—which includes the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), an annual census of the more than 50,000 scholars who earn U.S. doctorates each year—provides crucial data about th