Plan de captación y mejora de las condiciones de ingreso de las mujeres a las carreras de ingeniería de la universidad de córdoba

Abstract

It is well known that engineering and architect degrees offer real possibilities to insert graduates in the labour market. But, it is also a proven fact that, both at national and international scale, women are a minority in this sector. This also happens in other science degrees, but in smaller percentages. In the Spanish Universities, more than half of the students are female. This makes the small number of women in technological degrees even more remarkable. Some of the reasons behind these low numbers could be the traditional consideration of degrees “more appropriate for men”, the lack of confidence in mathematics and other related science, that women could experience, and in general the tendency of society to discriminate (also in remuneration) women for these jobs. All these, combined with the absence of concrete knowledge of the functions of an engineer, leads to this inequality in the sector. The idea was to work with high school female students with multiple purposes: 1) change the wrong concept that engineering is more suitable for men, 2) provide accurate information for a right integration of girls in the university before they start their activity on the campus and 3) develop activities addressed to integrated and facilitated the transition between high school and university.