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Top Comments: NSF Excludes Sexual Orientation in Survey of Scientific Workforce [1]

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Date: 2023-01-15

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From Science:

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) says it does not plan to include a question about sexual orientation in a major national workforce survey, prompting hundreds of researchers to send a letter of protest. Last month, the agency submitted its plans for the 2023 National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG), a biennial survey of more than 160,000 U.S. bachelor’s degree holders with a focus on the science and engineering workforce, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. Many LGBTQ scientists were pleased that the survey will, for the first time, include a question about gender identity for all respondents. But the absence of a sexual orientation question is “incredibly disappointing,” says Ramón Barthelemy, an assistant professor at the University of Utah who has studied the experiences of LGBTQ scientists in physics. Speaking as a gay man, he says, “We have fought so hard for so long to try to get representation in the scientific community, and what NSF is communicating to us is, they don’t want us to have that representation.”

At least they have included two questions on gender and gender identity, which were not on previous surveys, but as a gay scientist, I find it extremely disappointing and frustrating that, in 2023, the NSF claims it can’t find a reliable way to survey sexual orientation among scientists and engineers when other federal agencies have done so. For one, I don’t appreciate being erased in my own profession.

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