Intervención de Aurelio Ruiz en la Jornada #FemTIC, dentro de las actividades Els Juliols a la Lehmann de Ideograma. 21 de julio. Segunda de las actividades de apps4citizens con el título: «Feminizando las TIC: ¿cómo potenciar la inclusión de mujeres en la creación de tecnología en Barcelona?».

1. How can we attract and
retain girls and women in
STEM?
Aurelio Ruiz

2. Women & Engineering - is it
important?

4. Motivation

5. Motivation
- Training in Engineering (UC3M, EPFL, TUM)
- Promotion of BSc and MSc programs in ICT at DTIC-UPF

6. Motivation

7. Motivation
Inspiring the next generation of female engineers | Debbie Sterling | TEDxPSU
https://youtu.be/FEeTLopLkEo

8. Action-driven approach

9. Action-driven approach
https://www.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/gender-and-ict
- Different actions for different target
populations
- A transversal issue - stereotypes.
- Under-representation seems higher
than real due to additional lack of
visibility
- Positive message. Yes, there are!

10. Girl-only events
> 1.000 participants
(incl. families)
> 80 volunteers

11. 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

12. Girl-only events
Needed, but with limitations:
● Extra resources needed. Only sustainable if an explicit commitment is done
● They tried, they liked… what’s next for them?

13. Women-only action
Speed-mentoring session
MENTOS: mentoring program for female UPF engineering students
http://mentos.upf.edu/
Women in Music Information Retrieval
PyladiesBCN…

14. Women-only action

15. Action-driven approach -
gender perspective in ALL
actions

16. Gender-balanced events
https://www.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/american-space
Gender parity guaranteed in
registration. Effect:
- 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

17. Gender-balanced events
Needed, but with limitations:
● Need to make the message explicit and impact beyond the
specific course
● What about all those girls (and boys) who are not interested in
technology (but are influencers)

18. Action-driven approach -
gender perspective in
actions targeting girls AND
boys

19. Actions for girls AND boys
From presentation by Pallabi Sengupta, DTIC PhD seminars
https://www.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/talks-and-networks

20. Actions 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)

21. Actions for girls AND boys
● Unconscious bias
● Stereotype threat
● Imagine an engineer
● 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering
http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/challenges.aspx

22. Actions for girls AND boys
Future professionals, parents…
and current drivers of influence
https://portal.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/wisibilizalas
@wisibilizalas
Organiza:
Patrocinan:
Platino: Plata: Colaboran:Oro:

23. Actions for girls AND boys Inspirational models
https://portal.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/wisibilizalas
@wisibilizalas

24. Actions for girls AND boys
Future professionals, parents…
and current drivers of influence

25. Actions for girls AND boys
BCN - focus on data science
New degrees - new opportunities
Gender perspective since its inception

26. Conclusions?