Title:
Providing Female Models and Promoting Vocations: A Practical Experience in STEM Fields [Download]Authors:
Carballo, Julia and Gómez-Rodríguez, Alma María and de las Nieves Lorenzo-González, María
Index Terms:
Engineering profession;Gender issues;STEM;Writing;Information and communication technology;Female scientists;gender roles;secondary education;STEM;female vocations
Abstract:
STEM disciplines present a low number of female vocations. In the Campus of Ourense (University of Vigo), women from Science and Engineering fields have promoted a non-university student's competition and a fair called “eXXperimenta en feminino” in order to make visible the role of women in STEM to students of secondary and high school. The motivation behind these actions is to highlight the role of women in the STEM disciplines and attract female students to those studies, which have a low percentage of enrollment of women. The results and conclusions of those initiatives are presented in this work. Regarding the opinions provided by participants, the events have achieved a high satisfaction level.
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How to cite:
Carballo, Julia and Gómez-Rodríguez, Alma María and de las Nieves Lorenzo-González, María, "Providing Female Models and Promoting Vocations: A Practical Experience in STEM Fields" in IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje, pp. 317-325, Nov. 2020. doi: 10.1109/RITA.2020.3033217