Career metaphors from Australian geoscientists

This dataset is used in the following paper: Tiddy, C., Perera, S., Sardeshmukh, S. R. & Andrahannadi, U. (in review). The influence of career perceptions on gender diversity in the geosciences.

This dataset contains visual metaphors (e.g., an image, picture, movie, movie role, or cartoon character) provided by Australian geoscientists describing 1. their own career (Supplementary Data Table S1 - SELF perception metaphors) and 2. the career of the opposite gender (Supplementary Table S2 - OTHERS perception metaphors). Metaphors are used as they can give structure and provide organization to our perceptions of complex topics and have previously been successfully used to conceptualize career perceptions (e.g., Inkson, 2004; 2006; Mignot, 2004; Smith-Ruig, 2008).

Data was collected via semi-structured interviews of 68 (40 women, 28 men) Australian geoscientists from a range of career stages and with roughly equal representation from the sectors of academia, government, and industry (Table 4). Interviewees were selected through expert purposive sampling (Etikan et al., 2016) to ensure diversity of career paths, career stages and geoscience fields of expertise. A range of organizations of various sizes and types were targeted. Interviews were based on a set series of questions and probes aimed at exploring participants’ career from undergraduate studies to their current position. An additional 16 responses (14 women, 2 men) related to career metaphors were collected through an online questionnaire that included target questions with the same wording as used in interviews (see Table 4). The questionnaire was set up in association with a conference presentation, which provided an opportunity to collect additional responses to the specific metaphor aspect of the broader study. Audience members who had not been involved in an interview were invited to fill out a survey. The responses were filtered to include only Australian-based working geoscientists and have been used here to compliment the data collected in the interview process. Participants were recruited between 1st May 2019 and 31st May 2021.

In total, 94% of women and 80% of men provided metaphors for their own careers. 78% of women and 83% of men provided metaphors for the career of the opposite gender.

It is noted that all participants in this study identified as either a cisgender man or cisgender woman, therefore the study only considers these two genders. Gender is used here in the context of gender identity (as opposed to biological sex). Most interview and all survey respondents identified as white/Caucasian.

本数据集应用于以下论文：Tiddy, C., Perera, S., Sardeshmukh, S. R. & Andrahannadi, U. （待发表）。论职业认知对地球科学领域性别多样性的影响。该数据集包含由澳大利亚地球科学家提供的视觉隐喻（例如，图像、图片、电影、电影角色或卡通人物），用以描述1. 他们自身的职业生涯（补充数据表S1 - 自我认知隐喻）以及2. 相反性别的职业生涯（补充表S2 - 他者认知隐喻）。隐喻之所以被采用，是因为它们能够为我们对复杂主题的认知提供结构和组织，且之前已被成功应用于职业生涯认知的概念化（例如，Inkson，2004；2006；Mignot，2004；Smith-Ruig，2008）。

数据通过68位（其中女性40位，男性28位）处于不同职业生涯阶段、来自学术界、政府部门和行业，且大致比例均衡的澳大利亚地球科学家的半结构化访谈收集而来（见表4）。受访者通过专家目的性抽样（Etikan等，2016）选取，以确保职业生涯路径、职业生涯阶段和地球科学专业领域的多样性。针对各种规模和类型的组织进行了目标选择。访谈基于一系列旨在探索参与者从本科学习到当前职位职业生涯的问题和追问。此外，通过在线问卷收集了与职业隐喻相关的16个额外回应（其中女性14位，男性2位），问卷中的目标问题与访谈中使用的措辞相同（见表4）。问卷是在一次会议演讲中设置的，为收集与更广泛研究中的特定隐喻方面相关的额外回应提供了机会。未被访谈涉及的听众被邀请填写调查问卷。对回应进行了筛选，仅包括澳大利亚本土的在职地球科学家，并已在此作为对访谈过程中收集的数据的补充。参与者招募时间介于2019年5月1日至2021年5月31日。

总计，94%的女性和80%的男性为其自身职业生涯提供了隐喻。78%的女性和83%的男性为相反性别的职业生涯提供了隐喻。

需要注意的是，所有参与者均自认为是跨性别男性或跨性别女性，因此本研究所考虑的性别仅限于这两类。在此处，性别是指性别认同（而非生物性别）。大多数访谈和所有调查受访者自认为是白色/高加索人种。