{"id":11873,"date":"2022-11-30T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicasentecnologia.org\/?p=11873"},"modified":"2022-11-30T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:03:37","slug":"research-an-unequal-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicasentecnologia.org\/en\/2022\/11\/30\/research-an-unequal-race\/","title":{"rendered":"#DataCET | Only 12% of female university students in Argentina choose a STEM career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicas en Tecnolog\u00eda, with the support of the NCR Foundation, presented a new research<\/a><\/span> on the participation of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) universities. \u201cAn unequal career: the gender gap in Argentina's university system.\u201d<\/strong> is the quantitative report that updates and gives continuity to the study that the organization has been doing, since its founding in 2015, on the participation of women in science and technology disciplines.<\/p>\n

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For the elaboration of the new research, Chicas en Tecnolog\u00eda classified more than seven thousand university degrees in Argentina, reported by the Ministry of Education in response to requests for access to public information. The categorization was carried out based on the definitions established by the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), which allows comparing educational statistics at an international level. In addition, it developed its own classification of all the programming careers of the Argentine university system.\u00a0\u201cIt is important to have a methodology that allows us to start building data together at the regional level since this is a structural problem.\u201d<\/em>, he explained Megan Ballesty<\/a><\/span>, which, together with Milagros Gim\u00e9nez<\/span><\/a>, The company carried out the systematization and analysis of the information and prepared the new research report.<\/p>\n

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Megan Ballesty presented the research data to representatives of the technology ecosystem, academia, the public sector and civil society organizations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cAn unequal career: the gender gap in Argentina's university system.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0describes the most current academic context based on publicly available information. The analysis covers the period 2010 - 2019 and focuses on STEM disciplines and the evolution of women's participation in these areas. The report provides data that shows the persistent gender gap in careers linked to technology development:<\/p>\n