Gender gaps in the systems and computing engineering career at the Technological University of El Salvador

Abstract

Doing research about gender gaps and differentiating elements in the Systems and Computing Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador is the core objective of this investigation; in like manner, it focuses on taking a look to the inequalities in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics majors from a gender perspective. This is a qualitative study that has applied focus groups with faculty and students who belong to their senior year in the major. The results show the existing differences for men and women in relation to the conditions for major selection and the challenges faced in their everyday life as students, thus generating proposals for a change towards practicing equality and equity in the university environment.