This study investigates first-generation Chinese and Taiwanese immigrant women faculty's workplace experiences and their strategies for managing work and family demands. By looking at how immigration, ethnicity, gender, and work processes shape these women's ideology and practices, this study addresses the following questions: How do married Chinese and Taiwanese immigrant women in research-intensive universities handle work and family conflicts? How do they negotiate their gender-role expectations and actual practices at work and home? And, finally, do their practices vary by academic disciplines based on the work processes involved in conducting research? This study points to the dynamic nature of cultures such that immigrant women can challenge some aspects of the traditional culture and retain those aspects that help them to receive support for managing work and family demands. Findings from this study also suggest that based on different work processes, what may seem to be flexible can, in fact, present particular barriers and impede workplace performance. Finally, these findings show that in some academic fields, being women may place obstacles for career advancement, but that co-ethnic network provides alternative opportunities for them and can lead to greater research productivity. This study resonates with previous studies showing that childcare responsibilities place women faculty at a disadvantageous position in terms of job evaluation and career advancement. As well, it illuminates how disciplinary differences concerning work process shape women faculty's capability of arranging work schedule flexibly. / Ph. D. / This study investigates first-generation Chinese and Taiwanese immigrant women faculty’s workplace experiences and their strategies for managing work and family demands. By looking at how immigration, ethnicity, gender, and work processes shape these women’s ideology and practices, this study addresses the following questions: How do married Chinese and Taiwanese immigrant women in research-intensive universities handle work and family conflicts? How do they negotiate their gender-role expectations and actual practices at work and home? And, finally, do their practices vary by academic disciplines based on the work processes involved in conducting research? Findings from this study suggest that based on different work processes, what may seem to be flexible can, in fact, present particular barriers and impede workplace performance. Finally, these findings show that in some academic fields, being women may place obstacles for career advancement, but that co-ethnic network provides alternative opportunities for them and can lead to greater research productivity.

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Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-05-07T14:58:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MILENA SALES ARAÚJO - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCC 2015..pdf: 2915607 bytes, checksum: ae3e37b001051a5fd440be9134f6e832 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-07T14:58:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MILENA SALES ARAÚJO - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCC 2015..pdf: 2915607 bytes, checksum: ae3e37b001051a5fd440be9134f6e832 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-15 / Sites de perguntas e respostas são conhecidos por serem uma fonte de conhecimento simples e confiável. Os sites do StackExchange se destacam por estarem dentre as maiores comunidades de perguntas e respostas online, principalmente se considerarmos aquelas relacionadas à STEM. Assim como em outras comunidades online, mulheres são uma minoria nos sites do Stackexchange, fazendo com que estes sites não se beneficiem de pontos de vista diversificados na criação de seu conteúdo. Esta pesquisa investiga se mulheres que se dedicam aos sites do StackExchange contribuem menos e/ou deixam a comunidade precocemente. Para isso, examinamos diferenças entre os gêneros quanto ao número de contribuições feitas aos sites, o tempo que passaram contribuindo e quanto a diferença de qualidade. das suas contribuições segundo a comunidade. Nossos resultados mostram que, na maioria dos sites, mulheres contribuem tanto quanto homens, sendo suas contribuições com qualidade e por intervalos de tempo similares aos homens. Quando percebe-se diferença no número de contribuições, são as mulheres que tendem a contribuir mais. Além disso, encontramos que a proporção de contribuições provenientes de mulheres nos sites relacionados a STEM do StackExchange está aumentando na maioria das comunidades onde encontramos diferença estatisticamente significativa. Estes resultados ajudam a melhorar a visão que temos das contribuições feitas por mulheres neste tipo de site, gerando repercussão para pesquisas futuras, assim como discussão de design para os administradores. / Social Question and answer (Q&A) sites are known as simple and reliable knowledge databases. SitesfromtheStackExchangeplatformpresentlystandoutassomeofthelargest and most social Q&A spaces, particularly the sites related to STEM. As in some other collaborative online communities, women are underrepresented in StackExchange platform, hindering its sites from contemplating more diverse views in their content creation process. This work investigates whether women who are engaged with sites from StackExchange are influenced to contribute less and to leave the community. For that, we examined gender differencces in the number of contributions made to the sites, the time spent contributing, and on the evaluation of quality that the community provides for posted content. Our results point that, in the greater part of sites, women contributors contribute as much as men, with similar quality and for a similar period. When difference do occur, it happens most often that women tend to contribute more than men. Nevertheless, we found that the proportion of contributions coming from women in the STEM sites of StackExchange is increasing in several sites. These results point to aricher picture of female contribution in those sites, and raise several implications for future research, as well as to site administrators.