Science from women’s
lives. Better Science? How gendered studies improve science and
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Portolés, Carmen Magallón

doi:10.7203/metode.7.8190

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“…Some effects of not taking into account gender and sex are described in References [18,28,[33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40], in the context of Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing algorithms, software development, smart cities, or robotics.…”

Section: The Information Theory Field: Impact Of Gendered Innovationsmentioning

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Gender Diversity in STEM Disciplines: A Multiple Factor Problem

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Lack of diversity, and specifically, gender diversity, is one of the key problems that both technological companies and academia are facing these days. Moreover, recent studies show that the number of female students enrolled in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related disciplines have been decreasing in the last twenty years, while the number of women resigning from technological job positions remains unacceptably high. As members of a higher education institution, we foresee that working towards increasing and retaining the number of female students enrolled in STEM disciplines can help to alleviate part of the challenges faced by women in STEM fields. In this paper, we first review the main barriers and challenges that women encounter in their professional STEM careers through different age stages. Next, we focus on the special case of the information theory field, discussing the potential of gendered innovation, and whether it can be applied in the Information Theory case. The working program developed by the School of Engineering at the University of Valencia (ETSE-UV), Spain, which aims at decreasing the gender diversity gap, is then presented and recommendations for practice are given. This program started in 2011 and it encompasses Bachelor, Master and PhD levels. Four main actions are implemented: Providing institutional encouragement and support, increasing the professional support network, promoting and supporting the leadership, and increasing the visibility of female role models. To assess the impact of these actions, a chi-square test of independence is included to evaluate whether there is a significant effect on the percentage of enrolled female students. The percentage of graduated female students in the information and Communications Technology Field is also positioned with respect to other universities and the Spanish reference value. This analysis establishes that, in part, this program has helped to achieve higher female graduation rates, especially among Bachelor students, as well as increasing the number of top-decision positions held by faculty women.

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Section: The Information Theory Field: Impact Of Gendered Innovationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Diversity in STEM Disciplines: A Multiple Factor Problem

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“…Lo mismo sucede en el paso de la biología de la herencia a la genética (Richmond, 2001). Las mujeres no han tenido el poder de elegir, se han ido insertando en tareas menos valiosas (Magallón, 2017).…”

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La brecha salarial de género en las instituciones científicas. Estudio de caso

Jabbaz¹,

Gras²,

Díaz³

2019

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El estudio al que se refiere este artículo pretende identificar factores internos y externos que son constitutivos de la brecha salarial de género en una institución científica, concretamente en la Universidad de Valencia, que se analizan a partir de los datos del registro de nóminas de 2015. Se ha examinado la brecha salarial ajustada por hora trabajada, la brecha doblemente ajustada (por hora y categoría) y triplemente ajustada (por hora, categoría y complemento retributivo). La brecha salarial de género se ha manifestado en todas las categorías del profesorado investigador y es más intensa cuando se tienen hijos e hijas. La magnitud de la brecha y el peso de los componentes varían entre categorías profesionales y entre áreas de conocimiento. Se concluye que esta brecha no es el resultado de una diferencia de méritos entre académicas y académicos, sino de la estructura de funcionamiento de las universidades y de la estructura social general.

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Killing the Indigene: Interrogating the Support of First Nations’ Diversity in the Modern University

O'Sullivan

2022

Strategies for Supporting Inclusion and Diversity in the Academy

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Science from women’s lives. Better Science? How gendered studies improve science and lives

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Gender Diversity in STEM Disciplines: A Multiple Factor Problem

Gender Diversity in STEM Disciplines: A Multiple Factor Problem

La brecha salarial de género en las instituciones científicas. Estudio de caso

Killing the Indigene: Interrogating the Support of First Nations’ Diversity in the Modern University

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