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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2709/paper63.pdf
Using Student Profiles to Motivate and Understand How
to Attract Women to Computer Science
Gabriela Marín-Raventós[0000-0001-6898-0234], Rosaura M. Romero[0000-0003-0654-9339] and
Ana Laura Monge-Soto[0000-0002-2008-0445]
University of Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa Rica
gabriela.marin@ucr.ac.cr, rosaura.romero@ucr.ac.cr,
ana.mongesoto@ucr.ac.cr
Abstract. This article reports how to build and analyze student profiles to influence the
perception that girls and young women have of the profession, and of the diverse work
opportunities that exist in Computer Science in Costa Rica. The data presented corresponds to a
broader work of the European-Latin American project called W-STEM, which also involves
other STEM disciplines. The obtained results from the survey to build the profiles are analyzed.
The most significant gender difference is in terms of a lower female self-perception of abilities
before starting undergraduate studies, compared to the male counterpart. Fortunately, this
difference disappears for female at graduate level.
Keywords: Gender, STEM, professional choice, professional models.
1 Introduction
Nowadays, the assertion that there are very few women in STEM careers (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is not a novelty and is no longer being
questioned. This is mainly due to the efforts of many pioneering women teachers-
researchers, who dared to report their reduced number in university classrooms.
Particularly in Costa Rica, and for the Computer Science career, the first paper to report
the gender gap tried to call attention with its title “Are women in the Computer Science
career becoming extinct?” (Marín, Barrantes, Chavarría, 2007a).
Many articles worldwide have reported the magnitude of the gap and have tried to
determine its causes. The phenomenon is multi-causal, and according to the analysis
done to information provided by different researchers, it is related to intrinsic and
extrinsic motivations, and varies to a greater or lesser degree with the generation to
which people belong, with their sex and culture (Turner, Bernt, Pecora, 2002; Jacobs,
2005; Blickenstaff, 2005; Carter, 2006; Barrantes and Marín, 2009; Beyer, 2014;
Mishkin, Wangrowicz, Dori, Dori, 2016; Alshahrani, Ross, Wood, 2018).
In Costa Rica, for example, (Barrantes, Marín, 2009) correlates the lack of choice of
Computer Sciences as a career to women's perception of what the discipline is and to
different work expectations. On the other hand, (Calderón, Marín, 2014) points out that
understanding who or what they trust for taking the decision to enter a career is
important in trying to have an impact on that decision, and thus attract them to the
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discipline. Their results show that women are more susceptible to be influenced,
especially by their parents and, in particular, by the father figure. Besides, they found
that the main source of knowledge about the career is the conversation with others and
that the primary reason for selecting it is the work availability. Previous experiences
with computers or with toys during childhood are not determining factors for female
decisions on the career selected.
Our research focuses on finding the reasons that affect career choice to attract more
women to computers in Costa Rica, and how to use student profiles to influence girls'
and young women's perception of the profession, and their knowledge of various job
opportunities that exist in the field. The presented data correspond to a broader work
involving other disciplines in the STEM area, which has been carried out under the
project "Building the future of Latin America: engaging women into STEM"
(WSTEM), and whose funding comes from the European Union, specifically from the
ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education program. The duration of the W-
STEM project is 36 months, starting on January 15, 2019. The following European
universities are participating in it:
• Oulu University - OULU (Finland)
• Polytechnic of Turin - POLITO (Italy)
• University of Salamanca - USAL (Spain)
• Nothern Regional College - NRC (England)
• Technological University Dublin - TUD (Ireland)
In addition, Latin American universities that are involved are:
• Tecnológico de Monterrey - ITSM (Mexico)
• University of Guadalajara - UDG (Mexico)
• Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María - UTSM (Chile)
• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso - PUCV (Chile)
• Private Technical University of Loja - UTP (Ecuador)
• Technical University of the North - UTN (Ecuador)
• Technological University of Bolivar - UTB (Colombia)
• University of the North - UNINORTE (Colombia)
• Technological Institute of Costa Rica - ITCR (Costa Rica)
• University of Costa Rica - UCR (Costa Rica)
The W-STEM project aims to improve strategies and mechanisms to attract, access
and orient women in STEM programs in Higher Education in Latin America. It aims to
do this by transforming the current situation in Higher Education institutions in the
region, and by influencing high school students, in order to convince girls and young
women to enter STEM careers. The main actions of W-STEM are
• Measure gender equality in enrollment and retention rates in STEM programs.
• Implement policies, strategies and organizational mechanisms at participating
universities to improve attraction, access and orientation in STEM programs.
• Promote vocation and choice of STEM studies in girls and young women in
secondary schools.
• Give orientation to female students in the first year of entrance to the STEM
university careers.
• Develop an online training package to implement effective strategies to
improve the attractiveness, access and orientation of women to STEM
programs.
This article focuses mainly on reporting the results of the activities carried out for
the latter objective. It analyzes the information obtained from a survey used to create
profiles of men and women studying STEM careers, specifically describing the results
of the student profiles of the Computer Science career at the University of Costa Rica.
The following sections include the theoretical framework of reference and description
of similar studies. The methodology is explained in section 4, Results, both
demographic of the participants and of the survey, are included in section 5. Finally,
the last section contains our conclusions.
2 Conceptual Framework
Increasing the participation of women in science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) involves two distinct challenges (Drury, Siy, Cheryan, 2011):
increase the retention of existing women and their recruitment for entering STEM
fields. Women role models help in both of these efforts, by improving female's
performance and sense of belonging in these disciplines.
According to (Wyss, Heulskamp, Siebert, 2012), students make decisions in high
school years that will affect their desire and ability to pursue STEM careers. Therefore,
providing them with accurate career descriptions allows them to make an informed
choice. They argue that are few practical ways to help students understand the nature
of STEM careers. Their study investigates the use of video interviews of STEM
professionals as a method of informing students about the possibilities in these careers,
and concludes that there is evidence that informational videos are a way to engage
students in the pursuit of STEM disciplines.
On the other hand, in a large-scale field study, (Breda et al., 2020) reviewed whether
exposure to external women role models changes students' perceptions of scientific
careers, and affects their choice of field of study. In their study, a total of 56 female
scientists intervened in the classroom with an audience of 20,000 high school students.
From the analysis of results, they found evidence that the contact with female role
models increased students' interest in science-related careers, and slightly improved
their mathematical self-concept. They also determined that the presentation of female
role models drastically reduced the prevalence of stereotypes associated with science
jobs, and gender differences in self-perceived skills, but further evidenced, among
students, the under-representation of women in science.
Finally, (Herrmann at al., 2016) claim that women are more likely to leave science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics than men because they lack similar role
models, such as peers, teaching assistants, and instructors. Therefore, facilitating the
profiling of role models is relevant not only for attracting, but also for retaining, women
in STEM disciplines.
3 Background
As stated by (Calderón, López y Marín 2017) and (Calderón, Marín y López 2019), the
evolution of Computer Science (CS) professionals has been studied very little in Latin
America, and specially in Costa Rica. Both studies aim to characterize the professional
development model of people who studied CS in Costa Rica, and analyze the evolution
in their professional roles and migration between industry sectors. The purpose of this
study was to determine what roles and tasks are performed by professionals in the area,
and whether these differ for women and men. In (Calderón, Marín, López 2017) it is
reported how satisfied women are with their professional decisions, and the lack of
gender differences with respect to professional evolution. On the other hand, in the
second study, (Calderón, Marín, López 2019) reveal different behaviors in
professionals of different generations. In general, greater changes occurred in the
evolution of the male careers, regarding professional roles and industry sectors, in
comparison with female professionals, who were more stable in their jobs. In this study,
a large majority of the participants indicated that they felt successful in their
professional lives.
The first time that professional profiles were attempted as "role models" in Costa
Rica was through an article that tells the life story of three women who were pioneers
in computers in the country (Calderón, Marín, 2015).
Since there is no systematic work prior to our project to create occupational profiles
to promote the attraction of women to the discipline, this research is considered
pioneering and important.
4 Methodology
Work and student profiles will be built after collecting information through a
survey. The team in charge of designing and running the survey (App and Profiling
Tool Team) was coordinated by Anita Tobacco, from the Politecnico di Torino. The
authors of this article participated in this team as representatives of the University of
Costa Rica. A description of the survey and the information collection process is
described in the next section.
4.1 About the survey
The survey was inspired by the indicators of the SAGA project (García-Holgado,
Camacho-Díaz, García-Peñalvo, 2019). The survey instrument is mostly made up of
semi-open questions that allow for the selection of categories, while giving each
participant the freedom to write his or her answer by selecting the "Other" category.
Figure 1 shows the questions in the instrument. The first ones are used to characterize
the set of participants, and the last ones, highlighted in bold, are the ones that build the
profile of each participant.
Have you already graduated from college?
What is your gender?
What do you want your name to be? (name to generate the anonymous profile).
What year were you born?
What is your university?
What career are you studying or have you studied?
What type of school did you attend?
Please select the last academic degree obtained
What year did you graduate?
Are you currently working?
What are you currently working on (if not currently working, write "unemployed" or "looking for
work")?
What year did you start college?
My college degree has allowed me: ( or will allow me to: )
My big concern before starting my university studies was:
The most surprising thing about the courseI took was that: ( or which course
is that: )
What I liked best about my college studies was:
Fig. 1. Survey instrument questions.
4.2 About the process
The survey was conducted using LimeSurvey. Each participating university invited
undergraduate and graduate students from the various STEM disciplines. In particular,
at the University of Costa Rica, and for the area of Computer Science, the survey was
sent to the graduate and undergraduate student mailing lists with a very motivating
email, inviting students to contribute to attracting more women to the career.
5 Results
5.1 About the demographics of the responses
From the 1478 STEM students who participated in the survey, 98 belonged to the
discipline of Computer Sciences, and it is on these 98 profiles that the present analysis
was made. Table 1 and Fig. 2 show their distribution by gender and university level:
undergraduate (undergraduate and graduate students) or graduate (masters and doctoral
students). As usual at CS discipline, the sample of participants includes more men than
women. This is because participation was voluntary and the population has a
composition of 84% men and 16% women for undergrads (515 men and 105 women,
during II-2019) and 80% men to 20% women for graduates (71 men and 18 women,
during I-2020).
Table 1. Distribution of participants by university level and gender.
Women Men Other TOTAL Women Men Otro TOTAL
Graduate 16 37 2 55 29% 67% 4% 100%
Undergraduate 19 23 1 43 44% 53% 2% 100%
TOTAL 35 60 3 98
Fig. 2. Distribution of participants by university level and gender
Another interesting dimension to analyze, regarding the demographics of the survey
participants, is their work roles. This was a semi-open question addressed to graduate
students. In Fig. 3 (next page), two word clouds are shown. The upper one corresponds
to women (Fig. 3 a), and the lower one to men (Fig. 3 b). Because the male graduate
population is much larger than the female population, the lower word cloud reflects
many more categories. However, it is interesting to note that words like Development,
Software, and Engineer appear to be categories that describe both the female and male
graduate student roles. On the other hand, the word Unemployed draws attention in a
discipline with a high-demand labor market. After reviewing the answers, we realize
that this word is used by graduate students who have made the decision to become full-
time students. The word clouds, in Fig. 3, do not appear to reflect significant gender
differences in the occupational profiles of the survey participants.
5.2 Examples of generated profiles
Remember that the goal of the survey for the W-STEM project was the automatic
generation of profiles to motivate more women to enter STEM careers. Below, we
present two profiles automatically generated form the survey responses (these profiles
are in Spanish since it is the language used in the survey for Latin American students).
The first one is of a woman and the second one belongs to a man.
Hola mi nombre es Lidia. Tengo 23 años y me gradué de Universidad de Costa Rica en el año
2019. El título universitario obtenido me ha permitido entender cómo funcionan muchos
elementos y encontrar algo que realmente me apasiona. Antes de comenzar los estudios
universitarios me preocupaba porque los estudios podrían ser muy difíciles. La gran sorpresa
acerca de la carrera que cursé fue que, aunque al principio el hecho de no saber me asustaba,
ahora me motiva, porque siempre tengo mucho más que aprender. Ahora trabajo en el área de
soporte de hardware y programación para aplicaciones de ingeniería y considero que el grado
universitario obtenido de Universidad de Costa Rica ha sido indispensable para el trabajo que
tengo. Lo que más me gustó de estudiar en la Universidad de Costa Rica fue la materia estudiada
y los otros estudiantes que conocí.
Hola mi nombre es Jason. Tengo 27 años y me gradué de Universidad de Costa Rica en el año
2016. El título universitario obtenido me ha permitido trabajar en proyectos de gran importancia.
Antes de comenzar los estudios universitarios me preocupaba porque creía que podría no
¨calzar” con otras personas estudiantes de la carrera que seleccioné. La gran sorpresa acerca
de la carrera que cursé fue que existen muchas opciones de dónde escoger y que la disciplina que
elegí presenta un amplio campo de acción. Ahora trabajo en el área de Desarrollo web y
considero que el grado universitario obtenido de la Universidad de Costa Rica ha sido
indispensable para el trabajo que tengo. Lo que más me gustó de estudiar en la Universidad de
Costa Rica fue la excelente reputación de la universidad.
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a. Graduate Women
b. Graduate men
Fig. 3. Distribution of jobs through word cloud by gender for graduate students
The profiles by themselves are very valuable, because they show the real life of
students in our program, and their experiences and expectations about their professional
career. They can be used to motivate students to study our discipline. However, from
the academic perspective, it is interesting to ask ourselves if there are significant
differences in male and female profiles. Furthermore, if there are differences on them
as a product of respondent's professional maturity. In the following sections we report
similar and different aspects of male and female profiles, and between undergraduate
and graduate students.
5.3 Concerns of the student body before starting their studies
It has been reported that the perception of the potential difficulty of studies or their
self-perception of inability to be successful in them (e.g., difficulty with math) drives
many women to not study Computer Science (Barrantes, Marín, 2009) (Calderón,
Marín, 2014). Given this perspective, it is interesting to determine what is the main
concern of the participants when they start their study plan.
The specific survey question allowed for the selection of one of the following
alternatives as a major concern: (a) I would not get enough experience to work with
other people on really interesting projects, (b) I might not get along with other people
who are students in the career I selected, (c) I did not have adequate training to do the
studies I chose, or (d) the studies might be very difficult. Respondents could choose
Another and freely express different concerns. The results obtained for each category
are shown in Fig. 4 (Percentages are used to make comparisons due to different group
sizes). The yellow bar corresponds to the answer Another, the blue bars are related to
possible academic difficulties to be successful in the studies, and the green ones to
possible obstacles due to interrelations with people.
The predominant answers are: 1) I did not have adequate training to carry out the
studies I chose, and 2) the studies could be very difficult. In particular, it is interesting
to note how, for undergraduate students, the relative importance of these two aspects
is different. For women, the fact that I did not have adequate training to carry out the
studies I chose is more important than the concern that the studies might be very
difficult. This is consistent with the often-reported phenomenon of low self-esteem
among women. Men, on the other hand, are much more confident in their abilities (only
26% consider that their previous training may be a problem), but are more distrustful
of their interpersonal relationships than women (dark green category).
For graduate students the relative importance of these two aspects is opposite. The
relative importance for women of not having adequate training to carry out the studies
I chose is less than for men. Note that the concern that the studies might be too difficult
does not present significant gender differences in these professionals. This is an
important finding that can be used to promote the attraction of women to the discipline.
Fig. 4. Concerns before starting studies.
Few people selected Another, and freely expressed different concerns. The following
are responses for women
• the balance to work and study so that both activities reflect good quality and
complement each other,
• not being able to get a well-paid job,
• not having enough financial resources for my career, and
• having to leave my baby (he is 4 years old) to go to college, knowing that it is not easy
and that my baby is far away, but it motivates me that in the future we will not lack
anything.
In the case of men, the responses were:
• did not have sufficient resources and did not have a computer of my own,
• study and work at the same time,
• that the career would not add value to my resume,
• lack of personal interest,
• my family economic situation and for not being able to finance my studies,
• the area of work within the country, and
• I had no worries.
Most of the answers within this category of Other are related to socioeconomic and
labor aspects. Only one man expressed no concern and only one woman expressed
concern about the care of her baby. Only two expressed concern about the possible
usefulness of studying Computer Sciences. This aspect is discussed further in the next
section.
5.4 Self-perception of the usefulness of the studies
To determine how useful students perceive their studies, it is important to evaluate
their self-perception about what a college degree in the field has allowed them, or will
allow them to do. The specific survey question asked to select one of the following
alternatives: (a) to impact people's lives, (b) to work on projects of great importance,
(c) to work in and get to know other countries, and (d) to meet many really interesting
people. Respondents could choose the Other category, and freely express different
possibilities. Note that Fig. 5 shows that for undergraduate men and women what they
value most is working on important projects while the second most mentioned category
by women is impacting people's lives, while for men it is working in and getting to
know other countries. For undergraduates, meeting many really interesting people
does not seem to be important to anyone.
10%
15%
Men 38%
28%
Graduates
10%
another
6%
17%
Women 33% to meet many really interesting
33% people
11%
to work in and get to know
9% other countries
0%
Men 26% to work on projects of great
Undergrads
57%
9% importance
to impact people's lives
5%
0%
Women 16%
58%
21%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80%
Fig. 5. Self-perception of what the university degree has allowed or will allow them to do
The profiles of graduate students are different from those of undergraduates, but
almost identical to each other. The category working in and getting to know other
countries appears in first place, and meeting many really interesting people in second
place. This is possibly because they value more the aspects that allow them to grow
in the working world. For graduate students, all already professionals, impacting
people's lives is no longer a big deal. The category of Another was more popular for
men than women. Men specified the following:
• make a lot of money,
• flexibility: possibility to choose how I want to live, even if I don't want to devote myself
to something related to what I studied,
• support my management position with advanced knowledge,
• work,
• work with multidisciplinary teams in various industries, and
• work on highly complex projects, meet and learn from other engineers and participate
in the design of network infrastructure systems.
In the meantime, only one woman stated:
• As a young mother, the career opens many opportunities to give my son a good future
and of course, a promising future for me.
6 Conclusions
According to the analysis of the profiles of undergraduate and graduate students, the
relative importance of not having adequate training to carry out the studies, is greater
at the undergraduate level for women than for men, however at the graduate level, it is
less important for females than males. The concern that studies could be very difficult,
do not present significant differences by gender for professionals (people that have
already received a Bachelor degree).
At the undergraduate level, both genders value working on important projects more
than graduate students. However, the second important category for undergraduate
women relates to impacting people's lives, while for undergraduate men it is working
in and getting to know other countries. The profiles of graduate students are different
from those of undergraduates, but they are almost identical to each other amongst
different genders. This is because they value enhancing their professional growth and
broadening their horizons by visiting other countries.
The sample analyzed corresponds mostly to young people, for whom the concern of
having to balance work and personal life is almost absent. Only one woman expressed
concerns about the care of her baby. This issue is more recurrent in older professionals
or professionals from previous generations.
How to attract women to Computer Science is really a multi-faceted and evolving
challenge. We hope that research and intervention actions, which are more numerous
every day, will make the vision of our discipline more and more accurate and attractive,
so that in the future we will have a greater female representation. In particular, our
project will use the generated profiles as part of a mobile application (App) that will be
disseminated to primary and high schools nationwide, with the help of the Ministry of
Education and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications.
Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thank Anita Tabacco from the
Politecnico di Torino, and Alicia García-Holgado from the University of Salamanca,
from the W-STEM project, for their collaboration in the development and maintenance
of the tool for obtaining the profiles.
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