Leslie Pérez Cáceres 2
CEUR The XVII Latin American Women in Computing Congress (XVII LAWCC) was organized within the LI Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI 2025). LAWCC 2025 was held from October 27 to 31, 2025, at Valparaíso, Chile. Its main objective is to highlight women's research, interests, 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.
Topics of Interest
Analysis of the activity and participation of women in STEM (Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in general. Contributions of women from STEM / ICT areas in responding to the pandemic.
Female participation in scientific and technological events (hackathons, science clubs, etc.). Inclusive software development (games, apps and others) with a strong participation of women. Initiatives to promote gender equity in STEM / ICT.
Experiences of women's groups / communities in STEM / ICT areas.
Gender and Human-Computer Interaction.
Female leadership models and ICT.
Gender specificities in the development and implementation of ICT.
Gender specificities in the teaching of STEM / ICT, at the 5 levels: initial, preschool, basic / primary, middle and higher education.
Participation of women in decision-making at the national and international level in relation to the use of ICT.
Public policies around Women and ICT.
Initiatives to awaken vocations in STEM/ICT in adolescent girls and women and increase female participation in this type of careers.
The current edition, LAWCC 2025 had 25 submissions, from which 18 full papers were accepted. These papers have involved authors from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Ana Lidia Franzoni (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, México) Leslie Pérez Cáceres (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile) Silvana Roncagliolo de la Horra (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile) Program Committee ▪ Irene Loiseau – Universidad de Buenos Aires ▪ José Luis Vázquez Noguera – Laboratorio de Computación Científica y Aplicada ▪ Judith Barrios Albornoz – University of Los Andes ▪ Karla Pereira – UFAM ▪ Katty Rohoden – UTPL ▪ Laura Griffiths – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso ▪ Laura Andrea Cecchi – Universidad Nacional del Comahue ▪ M Monteiro – Faculta Politécnica - UNA ▪ Mailyn Moreno-Espino – Universidad Complutense de Madrid ▪ Maria E. Urquhart – Universidad de la República ▪ Maria Elena García Diaz – Universidad Nacional de Asunción ▪ Maristela Holanda – Universidade de Brasília ▪ María Laura Tardivo – Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto ▪ Nilda Yangüez Cervantes – Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá ▪ Nora Reyes – Universidad Nacional de San Luis ▪ Norma Herrera – Universidad Nacional de San Luis ▪ Pamela Hermosilla – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso ▪ Paula Gonzalez – UNS ▪ Paula Verghelet – Laboratorio de Sistemas Complejos - DC - FCEyN - UBA ▪ Rafael García Gómez – Politécnico Grancolombiano ▪ Rocio Cecchini – Universidad Nacional del Sur de Argentina ▪ Rosa Arriaga – Georgia Institute of Technology ▪ Rosiane de Freitas – IComp/UFAM ▪ Sandra Cano – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile ▪ Silvana Aciar – Instituto de Informática, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina ▪ Veronica Gil Costa – Universidad Nacional de San Luis We would like to express our sincere gratitude to CEUR-WS.org for their support in publishing these proceedings. Their commitment to providing a free, open-access platform for workshop and conference proceedings in the computer science domain has significantly contributed to the dissemination of our research.