VISIBILIZATION
In figures for 2017, the percentage of women in technical careers and in the ICT sector remains a minority.
According to the study “Women in tech”: in 2015 women accounted for 57% in the total of all professional occupations and only 25% of positions related to computer and computing.
Since 1985 (worldwide) there has been a precipitous drop in this figure: 41% of women leave their careers compared to 17% of men. And the reasons that they argue are related to the difficulty of access to leadership positions, the few opportunities for progress in their companies and wage inequality. All these reasons generate, in many cases, job dissatisfaction and directs them to other work fields.
What can we do to stop this trend and reduce the gender gap that occurs between the technical profiles of our companies?
MENTORING
Girls between 9 and 14 years old, how many women scientists or big entrepreneurs do they know?
Why would any of this girls think that their future may be in technology if they are not surrounded by a family that says: you can do it? if they do not study in a school where resources are provided for it, and especially, if they do not know any woman who can tell them: I did it, why not you?
Mentoring is recognized today as one of the most effective tools to change attitudes and, above all, when it comes to generating greater visibility of women’s daily work, which despite being seen as a minority in the classrooms of technological studies or in the technological development departments of their companies, always knew that their place was there.
Who better than themselves to inject into each of the participating girls the desire that their future work is within technology?
PROJECT in-CODE
Chicas in-Code is a Project of academic orientation and awareness of the need for our girls to visualize technology as a tool they can control and use to express themselves, as well as to expand their interest in programming as a possible professional future within technologies.
Thanks to this project, the girls will have a first contact with the development of technological projects and will verify that they are capable, at a basic level, of programming and designing technology..
THE PROTAGONISTS
Girls from 9 to 14 years old.
This project aims to help girls visualize technology as a tool they can control and use to express themselves, as well as broadening their future projection in the possibility of generating useful services and products for their community. The working groups will be divided by age: from 9 to 11 years old, first level. From 12 to 14 years old second level. Each level works theoretical and practical contents of the programming and workshops developed to adapt to their capacities.
METHODOLOGY
- Visibility of women within technologies and as transmitters of technological knowledge.
- Visualization of competences and skills that must be developed in a technological environment.
- Creation of collaboration environments and group works, in the development, in the basic level, of technological products or services.
- Use of technological tools expressly designed for the computer programming sessions and the different workshops.
COMPUTATIONAL THINKING
It is the kind of thinking with which one works in computer programming.
It is based on the analysis of a problem, dividing it into smaller parts and then, looking for separate solutions to each of these parts. This type of reasoning can also be useful in many of the situations we face in our daily lives.
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