TY - GEN
T1 - The experience of women students in engineering and mathematics careers
T2 - 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021
AU - Garcia-Holgado, Alicia
AU - Verdugo-Castro, Sonia
AU - Dominguez, Angeles
AU - Hernandez-Armenta, Itzel
AU - Garcia-Penalvo, Francisco J.
AU - Vazquez-Ingelmo, Andrea
AU - Sanchez-Gomez, M. Cruz
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/4/21
Y1 - 2021/4/21
N2 - The gender gap is a problem that occurs in different forms in regions and countries around the world. It is a goal of large international organisations, governments, companies and other entities. Although it is not a new issue, it is important to continue studying it and seek mechanisms and strategies to attract and maintain more women in these areas. In particular, in the field of education and employment, the STEM areas present large gender gaps whose reduction would not only impact the equality of men and women but would also have an impact on the economy of the countries and on improving the economic situation of women. In this context, there are initiatives in Latin America working on this issue, but it is necessary to look more deeply into the elements that influence the decision to study careers in these areas. In this context, two focus groups have been held as roundtables with STEM women from different Latin American and European countries, to answer a series of questions centred on their motivations and decisions before and during their university studies. The results obtained have provided some inputs for defining gender equality action plans in ten Higher Education Institutions from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Mexico. Furthermore, the results show similarities with previous studies involving STEM women with different Latin American profiles.
AB - The gender gap is a problem that occurs in different forms in regions and countries around the world. It is a goal of large international organisations, governments, companies and other entities. Although it is not a new issue, it is important to continue studying it and seek mechanisms and strategies to attract and maintain more women in these areas. In particular, in the field of education and employment, the STEM areas present large gender gaps whose reduction would not only impact the equality of men and women but would also have an impact on the economy of the countries and on improving the economic situation of women. In this context, there are initiatives in Latin America working on this issue, but it is necessary to look more deeply into the elements that influence the decision to study careers in these areas. In this context, two focus groups have been held as roundtables with STEM women from different Latin American and European countries, to answer a series of questions centred on their motivations and decisions before and during their university studies. The results obtained have provided some inputs for defining gender equality action plans in ten Higher Education Institutions from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Mexico. Furthermore, the results show similarities with previous studies involving STEM women with different Latin American profiles.
KW - Engineer
KW - Gender gap
KW - Mathematician
KW - Qualitative analysis
KW - STEM
KW - Women students
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85112454219&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454079
DO - 10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454079
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112454219
T3 - IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
SP - 50
EP - 56
BT - Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021
A2 - Klinger, Thomas
A2 - Kollmitzer, Christian
A2 - Pester, Andreas
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 20 April 2021 through 22 April 2021
ER -
