Women's perception of programming - Django Girls Programming Workshops
Abstract
Numerous initiatives have sought to attract girls and women to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers through different workshops. This paper aims to report on the experience of workshops developed with high school girls and adult women from Paraguay and Uruguay during the years 2018 and 2019. The workshops included the creation of a Web Blog with HTML/CSS, Python and Django Web Framework, as well as lectures and debates about prominent female personalities, as well as female insertion in technology. Perception questionnaires were applied where the data obtained is also presented, analyzed and discussed.
Keywords:
Gender, Girls, Workshops, Programming
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Bim, S. A., Amaral, M., Kozievitch, N., Emer, M. C., Setti, M., Pellison, L., and Merkle, L. (2016). Divulgar para atrair, motivar para manter. In Anais do X Women in Information Technology, pages 29–33, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. SBC.
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Macedo, M., Ferreira Rodrigues, L., Martinhago, A., Soares, L., and Reis, R. (2015). Meninas++: uma iniciativa para fomentar a participação feminina na área de computação. 3:58–78
Maciel, C., Bim, S. A., and Boscarioli, C. (2013). HCI with chocolate: Introducing HCI concepts to brazilian girls in elementary school. In Human Computer Interaction, pages 90–94. Springer International Publishing
Martinhago, A., Smarzaro, R., Lima, I., and Guimarães, L. (2014). Computação desplugada no ensino de bancos de dados na educação superior. In Anais do XXII Workshop sobre Educação em Computação, pages 21–29, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. SBC.
Master, A., Cheryan, S., Moscatelli, A., and Meltzoff, A. (2017). Programming experience promotes higher stem motivation among first-grade girls. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 160:92–106.
Michell, D., Szorenyi, A., Falkner, K., and Szabo, C. (2017). Broadening participation not border protection: how universities can support women in computer science. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 39(4):406–422.
Oliveira, A., Moro, M., and Prates, R. (2014). Perfil feminino em computação: An´alise inicial. In Anais do XXII Workshop sobre Educação em Computação, pages 179–188, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. SBC.
Rosenbloom, J. L., Ash, R. A., Dupont, B., and Coder, L. (2008). Why are there so few women in information technology? assessing the role of personality in career choices. Journal of Economic Psychology, 29(4):543–554
Sax, L., Lehman, K., Jacobs, J., Kanny, M., Lim, G., Monje-Paulson, L., and Zimmerman, H. (2017). Anatomy of an enduring gender gap: The evolution of women’s participation in computer science. Journal of Higher Education, 88:258–293.
Wang, C., Tang, C., Zhang, L., and Cukierman, D. (2012). Try/catch - a cs outreach event organized by female university students for female high school students.
Wang, J., Hejazi Moghadam, S., and Tiffany-Morales, J. (2017). Social perceptions in computer science and implications for diverse students. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, ICER ’17, page 47–55, New York, NY, USA. Association for Computing Machinery
Published
2021-07-18
How to Cite
SALINAS, Myrian Noguera.
Women's perception of programming - Django Girls Programming Workshops. In: WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (WIT), 15. , 2021, Evento Online.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2021
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p. 1-10.
ISSN 2763-8626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2021.15836.
