Girls & ICTAurel io Ruiz

Mot ivat ion

Mot ivat ion- Training in Engineering (UC3M, EPFL, TUM)

- Promotion of BSc and MSc programs in ICT at DTIC-UPF

WTF!

Act ion-driven approach

Act ion-driven approach

https://www.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/gender-and-ict

- Dif ferent actions for dif ferent target populations

- A transversal issue - st ereot ypes.

- Under-represent at ion seems highert han real due t o addit ional lack of visibil it y

Girl-only events

> 1.000 participants (incl. families)

> 80 volunteers

Girl-only events

Formal evaluation and details:

Ruiz-Garcia A; Subirats L; Freire A. Lessons learned in promoting new technologies and engineering in girls through a girls hackathon and mentoring. Edulearn16. 8th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies; 2016 July 4-6; Barcelona, Spain. http://hdl.handle.net/10230/27002

● Effect in families (mothers AND fathers) - identification of “activity for my daughter” when labelled as “Girl-”

● The world is already extremely labelled (explicitly or implicitly) with activities for boys / girls

Informal feedback:

● “I am surprised that teachers were beautiful” (7-year girl)● “Where can I find more activities for girls and technology?” - mother

Girl-only events

Needed, but with limitations:

● Extra effort needed. Sustainability?● They tried, they liked… what’s next for them?

Act ion-driven approach -gender perspective in ALL actions

Gender-balanced events

https://www.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/american-space

Gender parity guaranteed in registration. Ef fect:

- Tickets for boys quickly disappear

- Tickets for girls are slowly taken

- “Push” to relax the gender requirement to respond to demand

- But we always get parity

Gender-balanced eventsNeeded, but with limitations:

● Need to make the message explicit and impact beyond the specif ic course

● What about all those girls (and boys) who are not interested in technology (but are inf luencers)

Act ion-driven approach -gender perspective in actions targeting girls AND boys

Act ions for girls AND boys

From presentation by Pallabi Sengupta, DTIC PhD seminars https://www.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/talks-and-networks

Act ions for girls AND boys

● Mothers overestimate the capacities of babies if they are boys, underestimate them if they are girls

● Ability and brilliance (boys, later men) vs hard-work (girls, later women)

Act ions for girls AND boysFuture professionals, parents… and current drivers of inf luence

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Act ions for girls AND boys Inspirational models

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Act ions for girls AND boysFuture professionals, parents… and current drivers of inf luence

Act ions for girls AND boys

BCN - focus on data science

New degrees - new opportunities

Gender perspective since its inception

conclusions

Conclusions

https://www.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/gender-and-ict

- Complex problem → Complex solutions, all needed!

- Embed gender perspective in all actions. Impressive what you start to perceive when you do

- Communication too focused on the message “there are few women”. Could this have in fact a perverse effect?

- Focus on making visible the MANY women already in the f ield and in all type of positions (leadership, “freak”, social impact, etc)

- Work with girls, with boys, with mothers and fathers, with professionals….

- Trendy topic. Many people willing to contribute. Try to guarantee they do it in the right direction!

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