LAWCC 2024
Latin American Women in Computing 2024

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 17 papers submitted for peer-review to this congress. Out of these, 10 papers were accepted for this volume.

• Adaptation and application of the QSTEMHE questionnaire on gender stereotypes in STEM studies to the Brazilian context 1-12
  Maura Angelica Milfont Shzu , Sonia Verdugo-Castro , Alicia García-Holgado

• A Literature Mapping of the Congress of Latin American Women in Computing (LAWCC) Papers 13-26
  Maristela Holanda , M. Elena García-Díaz , Alexandra González-Eras , Carolina González-Süllow , Alicia García-Holgado , Gabriela Marín-Raventós , Donna A. Roper , Germania Rodriguez-Morales , Rosiane de Freitas

• Initiatives to Reduce the Gender Gap in Senior Management: Actions Developed by Organizations in Chile 27-37
  Lilian San-Martín , Alicia García-Holgado , Angeles Dominguez

• Hack4women: In search of a framework 38-49
  Giannina Costa , Alicia García-Holgado , Pamela P. Alvarez

• Occupational inheritance and the decision for a university career: a study on women IT professionals in Peru 50-61
  Nadia Rodriguez-Rodriguez , Kory Ponce , Indira R. Guzman

• University student dropout prediction for female students in the Computer Engineering career 62-73
  Ellen L. Méndez Xavier , Fabrizio Coscia , Christian von Lücken

• Mapeamento de Iniciativas Brasileiras em STEM no Instagram: Uma Discussão Metodológica 74-85
  Ana Clara de Arruda Nunes , Francielli Freitas Moro , Luciana Bolan Frigo , Raquel de Barros Miguel , Sílvia Amélia Bim

• Analysis of the professional development level of participants of the TecnoGirls project at the Gerardo Barrios University of El Salvador 86-97
  Gisela Espinoza , Jeany Argueta

• Challenging the gender gap in STEM with Python and Data Science: case of the National Technical University de Costa Rica 98-109
  María Biarreta Portillo , Josué Castro Ramírez , María Mora Cross , Kattia Rodríguez Brenes , Te Chen Huang

• Nourishing girls’ passion for Computing Sciences: let’s eliminate barriers and build bridges 110-121
  Laura A. Cecchi , Verónica Dahl