Editors' addresses: Copyright © 2022 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copyright © 2022 for the volume as a collection by its editors. This volume and its papers are published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The XIV Latin American Women in Computing Congress (XIV LAWCC) was organized within Colombia's XLVIII Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI 2022). LAWCC2022 was held in hybrid (onsite and virtual) mode on October 19th and 20th. Its main objective is to highlight women's research, interest, and achievements in various computing areas to encourage more women's participation in technology. Tomorrow's jobs are professional careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and those are careers where women have been historically underrepresented. In STEM jobs with higher incomes, the lowest percentages are women workers. Therefore, this space seeks to foster sustainable development, drive innovation, social welfare, and inclusive growth with more women in STEM. The LAWCC's research work identified the challenges of women in STEM, Information and Telecommunications Technology (ICT), teaching, the workplace, and research. Simultaneously, those works addressed recurrent issues related to gender and interaction with society.
• General analysis of women's activities and participation in STEM (Sciences, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics) and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) • Contributions of women in STEM / ICT for pandemic response • Alternativo: The role of women in STEM / ICT for pandemic response • Female participation in scientific and technological events (hackathons, science clubs, etc.) • Inclusive software development (games, apps and others) with a strong women participation • Gender equity initiatives in STEM / ICT. • Experiences of organizations working to Promote Women in STEM/ICT • Gender and Human-Computer Interaction. • Female leadership models and ICT. • Gender-dependent specificities in the development and implementation of ICT. • Gender-dependent specificities of teaching STEM / ICT, at all levels • Women on ICT decision-making at national and international level • Women and ICT-related public policy • Educational data analysis of women and computing in all educational levels • Women in technology statistics and data analysis The current edition, LAWCC 2022, has had 15 submissions, from which 12 full papers were accepted, and 11 papers were presented and reviewed by 62 committee members. These papers have involved 48 authors from Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Paraguay, Spain, and Uruguay.
● María Elena García-Díaz (Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay) ● Maristela Holanda (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)
Analysis of the Participation of Female University Students in STEM/ICT Careers in EL Salvador Gabriela Carolina Reynosa Pérez and Marlene Elizabeth Aguilar Navarro………………..1-11 Applications, Admissions and Graduations of Women in Computer Science Careers for the Universidad Nacional de Asunción Ellen L. Mendez Xavier, Christian von Lücken and Rita Cantero ……………………...… 12-19 Compilation of Latin American Initiatives and the Regionalization of a University Project to Reduce the Gender Gap in IT Irene Hernández Ruiz, Carolina Gómez and Luis Alejandro Fallas Carvajal…………….20-31
Alicia García-Holgado, Soledad Segarra-Morales, Ana-Belén González-Rogado and Francisco José García-Peñalvo ………………………………………………………….…...32-41 Factors that prompted a sample of female students to choose an IT career. A regionalized exploratory study at three National University campuses Sandra Cabrera Alzate and Irene Hernández Ruiz………………………………………….42-52 Fomento à equidade de gênero nas áreas STEAM: Experiências formativas do Projeto Meninas Digitais de Mato Grosso Waleska G. de Lima, Sabrina B. Sassi, Maria Fernanda Abalem F. N. Costa, Ana Lara Casagrande e Cristiano Maciel………………………………………………………………..53-64 Gender Diversity in Technology Sector: Barriers and Perceptions Success of Women in Porto Digital Lizandra Lígia Soares Bezerra Silva, Suzana Sampaio and Marcelo Luiz Monteiro Marinho ………………………………………………………….……65-76 Gender Diversity in the Graduate Program in Computing at the University of Brasília Alice Borges, Alice Lima, Kailany Ketulhe, Aleteia Araujo, Maristela Holanda…………..77-87 Perfis em Mídia Social para Promover Equidade de Gênero na Área STEM e STEAM Leihge Roselle Rondon Pereira, Karla de Souza E Silva, Eunice Pereira dos Santos Nunes and Cristiano Maciel ………………………………………………………………………...….88-99 The Role of ICTs in the Management of Citizen Initiatives Led by Women from Vulnerable Communities of Bañado Sur de Asunción During COVID-19 Pabla Frutos, Derlis Dominguez, Ernesto Noguera, Cristhian Parra, Claudia Montanía and Luca Cernuzzi…………………………………………………………………..…………….100-111