Workplace climate forLGBT+physicists: A view from students and professional physicists

Abstract

LGBT+ persons in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics have a small growing body of literature addressing their experiences and workplace concerns. This study offers workplace climate analysis of 324 survey respondents in the field of physics. The findings indicate that when building a climate model to predict for consideration to leave and outness, a positive workplace climate was a stronger predictor than a negative workplace climate or experiences of exclusionary behavior. This points to the importance of moving beyond workplace climates that are simply neutral, but to ones that are inclusive and welcoming for LGBT+ physicists. This is the final paper in a series of three.Received 22 February 2021Revised 28 December 2021Accepted 26 April 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.010147Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.Published by the American Physical SocietyPhysics Subject Headings (PhySH)Research AreasDiversity & inclusionProfessional TopicsFacultyGraduate studentsLower undergraduate studentsUpper undergraduate studentsPhysics Education Research