TWIST: Software Developer Training Program
Abstract
In this paper, we describe TWIST, a six-month training program created at the Tecgraf Institute, at PUC-Rio, with the goal of attracting more women to software development. We describe the first edition of the program, which took place in 2023 and was aimed at female students in the first semesters of undergraduate programs in Engineering or Computer Science. The feedback from the participants was very positive and several of them are now engaged in software development projects at PUC-Rio.
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Ensono Blog (2022). Speak up 2022: Women’s voices in the tech workplace. [link].
Frigo, L. B. and Araujo, A. (2023). Meninas digitais programa brasileiro por igualdade de gênero na área de TIC. In I Congreso internacional en Interculturalidad, Inclusión y Equidad en Educación.
Murphy-Hill, E., Jaspan, C., Egelman, C., and Cheng, L. (2022). The pushback effects of race, ethnicity, gender, and age in code review. Communications of the ACM, 65(3):52–57.
Nunes, N. R. (2022). Mulher de Favela: experiências compartilhadas. Editora PUC-Rio.
Santos, N. and Marczak, S. (2023). Fatores de atração, evasão e permanência de mulheres nas Áreas da computação. In Anais do Women in Information Technology (WIT). SBC.
The Economist (2019). The vile experiences of women in tech. [link]. May 3rd.
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Tympas, A., Konsta, H., Lekkas, T., and Karas, S. (2010). Constructing Gender and Technology in Advertising Images, chapter 9, pages 187–209. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Published
2024-07-21
How to Cite
RODRIGUEZ, Noemi; LIMA, Maria Julia de; MOURA, Ana Lúcia de; SZENBERG, Rachel.
TWIST: Software Developer Training Program. In: WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (WIT), 18. , 2024, Brasília/DF.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2024
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p. 263-273.
ISSN 2763-8626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2024.2647.
