College Entrance Exam Time: what do high school students aspire to do?
Abstract
Women represent only 30% of the workforce in technological areas. Those numbers are a challenge but also an opportunity to engage more people in the task of bringing more girls to the area. This paper presents the results of a survey submitted to high school girls during a career event. The girls, voluntary, answered questions about what attract and not attract them to technological areas.The results show that a significant number of girls prefer math during high school but in College they choose Human and Biological areas as careers. The stated that they lack mathematical skills and vocation to pursue the area even though its a favorite area.
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Published
2017-07-02
How to Cite
NAKAMURA, Fabíola; ALMEIDA, Taynah; DE FREITAS, Rosiane; LAUSCHNER, Tanara.
College Entrance Exam Time: what do high school students aspire to do?. In: WOMEN IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (WIT), 11. , 2017, São Paulo.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2017
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p. 1238-1242.
ISSN 2763-8626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2017.3415.
