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This study introduces the paper of this issue entitled, Equality and Equity in Latin American Science and Technology. The articles involved analyze the mechanisms through which gender discrimination operates in the institutionalization and professiolnalization of science and technology in some Latin American countries. In spite of the diversity of countries, institutions, disciplines and focuses, all the works coincice in their interest to account women's exclusion, their motives and the strategies that would allow increasing women presence in order to achieve a full equity and equality in science and technology. The articles presented offer an unique overview of the situation of women in science and technology in those countries and several scientific and technological areas.

In this article are presented the results of a study about the existence of gender biases in the scientific-technological education. In this study we expect to demonstrate with data the existence of gender stereotyped beliefs in university and high school teachers of science and technology. This way, we wants to point out if what certain scientific disciplines affirm about the cognitive capacities, abilities, attitudes and women's behaviors are transmitted in the teaching of the science and the technology, and if the gender biases characteristic of these disciplines are thus perpetuated through the education of the new scientifics and technologist generations. This study has been made at the University of La Laguna and the highs schools of Tenerife, but we believe that its results could be generalized to other Spanish universities and high schools.

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