Promoting diversity and inclusiveness in the STEM academic workforce remains a key challenge and national priority. Scientific societies can play a significant role in this process through the creation and implementation of programs to foster STEM academic workforce diversification, and by providing mentoring and skills development training that empower scientists from under-represented minority (URM) backgrounds to succeed in their communities of practice. In this article, we provide examples of challenges met by scientific societies in these areas and present data from the American Society for Cell Biology, highlighting the benefits received by trainees through long-term engagement with its programs. The success of these initiatives illustrates the impact of discipline-specific programming by scientific societies in supporting the development of URM scientists and an increasingly diverse and inclusive academic STEM community.

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促进 STEM 劳动力多样性的科学社会：美国细胞生物学学会少数族裔事务委员会的经验教训和成果†

促进 STEM 学术劳动力的多样性和包容性仍然是一项关键挑战和国家优先事项。科学社团可以在这一过程中发挥重要作用，通过创建和实施促进 STEM 学术劳动力多元化的计划，并通过提供指导和技能发展培训，使来自少数族裔 (URM) 背景的科学家能够在他们的社区中取得成功实践。在本文中，我们提供了科学团体在这些领域遇到的挑战的示例，并提供了来自美国细胞生物学学会的数据，强调了受训人员通过长期参与其项目所获得的好处。