Women and Computer Engineering: The Case of the School of Computer Science at the Technical University of Madrid
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2008.i733.233Keywords:
Gender in Computer Engineering careers, promotion and career progression, work-life balance, case of SpainAbstract
In this article we will explore the unequal gender situation within the specific discipline of Computer Engineering Studies, presenting data from the School of Computer Science at Technical University of Madrid from 1989 to 1999. In the second part we show the results of a qualitative study based on several in-deep interviews to women faculty from different academic positions and divisions in the School. Their perception of women’s situation in their own University and departments, the issues of promotion and career progression and their own experiences in balancing their professional life with the personal and familiar shows very interesting results, some of them specific of the Spanish case comparing with foreign studies.
Downloads
References
“Actividades de Investigación y desarrollo”, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Vicerrectorado de Investigación: 1989, 1993, 1996 y 1999.
Adam, Alison (1995): “Women and Computing in the UK”, Communications of the ACM, 38, 1: 43-44. Anuario Estadístico del Ministerio de Educación Y Ciencia, España: 1994, 1995, 1996 y 1997.
Artal, Margarita et al. (2003): Libro blanco sobre las mujeres en el mundo de la ciencia y la tecnología en Cataluña, Barcelona, Ed. Institut Català de les Dones.
Artal, Margarita (2003): “Acerquemos los estudios técnicos a las mujeres jóvenes”, Quark, 27, Observatorio de Comunicación Científica de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Cataluña, enero-abril 2003. Disponible en http://www.prbb.org/quark/27/Default.htm
Black, Sue; Jameson, Jean; Komoss, Regine; Meehan, Averil y Numerico, Teresa (2007): “Women in Computing: a European and InternationalPerspective”, Journal of Information, Communication and Society, in press.
Camp, Tracy (1997): “The incredible shrinking pipeline”, Communications of the ACM, 40, 10: 103-110. doi:10.1145/262793.262813
EG-S-MS (1998): Mainstreaming de género: Marco conceptual, metodología y presentación de “buenas prácticas, Informe final de las actividades del Grupo de Especialistas en mainstreaming (EG-S-MS), Strasburg, Madrid, 1999. “Estudio sobre los estudiantes de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid”, Gabinete de Estudios Sociológicos y Estadística de la UPM, Rectorado de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 1996 y 1997.
Fernández-Baizán, Covadonga; Pérez-Jiménez, Libia y Rodellar-Biarge, Victoria (1985): “A General Overview of the Professional Activities of Women in the Computer and Electrical Engineering Fields in Spain”, IEEE Transactions on Education, E-28, 4, pp. 45-49.
Fernández, Victoria; Ruiz, T.; Larranza, E.; Maritxalar, M.; Lazkano, E. y Sarasola, K. (2006): “Ingeniería en Informática y género: un estudio cuantitativo”, en Miqueo C. et al. (eds.), Actas del VI Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencia, Tecnología y Género, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, pp. 383-384.
Fernández Vargas, Valentina y Santesmases, M.ª Jesús (coords.) (2002): Ciencia y tecnología en el CSIC: una visión de género, monográfico de la revista Arbor, vols. 679/680, Tomo CLXXII, julio-agosto.
Frenkel, Karen A. (1990): “Women & Computing”, Communications of the ACM, 33, 1, pp. 34-46. doi:10.1145/92755.92756
García de León, M.ª Antonia (1994): Élites discriminadas (Sobre el poder de las mujeres), Anthropos, Barcelona.
Harding, Sandra (ed.) (1987): Feminism and Methodology, Bloomington (Indiana), Bloomington University Press y Open University Press.
Klawe, Maria y Leveson, Nancy (1995): “Women in Computing. Where Are We Now?”, Communications of the ACM, 38,1: 29-35.
Kyvik, Svein y Teigen, Mari (1996): “Child Care, Research Collaboration, and Gender Differences in Scientific Productivity”, Science, Technology and Human Values, 21, 1: 54-71.
Pérez Sedeño, Eulalia (2003): La situación de las mujeres en el sistema educativo de ciencia y tecnología en España y su contexto internacional. Report for the Spanish Department of Education, Ref: S2/EA2003-0031. http://wwwn.mec.es/univ/jsp/plantilla.jsp?id=2146
Margolis, Jane y Fisher, Alan (2002): Unlocking the Clubhouse. Women in Computing, Cambridge (MA), MIT Press.
MIT. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999): A study on the status of women faculty in science at MIT, Cambridge, MA. http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women/.html.
Rossiter, Margaret (1984): Women scientists in America. Struggles and Strategies to 1940, The John Hopkins University Press. (1995): Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1980-1995): Quince años de historia, Madrid, Publication of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2008 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
© CSIC. Manuscripts published in both the printed and online versions of this Journal are the property of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and quoting this source is a requirement for any partial or full reproduction.All contents of this electronic edition, except where otherwise noted, are distributed under a “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International” (CC BY 4.0) License. You may read here the basic information and the legal text of the license. The indication of the CC BY 4.0 License must be expressly stated in this way when necessary.
Self-archiving in repositories, personal webpages or similar, of any version other than the published by the Editor, is not allowed.
