@article {712, title = {Differences in perception of computer sciences and informatics due to gender and experience}, journal = {CLEI Electronic Journal}, volume = {11}, year = {2008}, month = {12/2008}, abstract = {
Low participation of women in Computer Science (CS) has been documented in some countries. Given thatthis phenomenon occurs at the Computer and Information Sciences Department at the Universidad de CostaRica,\ \ we\ \ decided\ \ to\ \ investigate\ \ if\ \ there\ \ were\ \ gender\ \ differences\ \ in\ \ some\ \ factors,\ \ both\ \ motivating\ \ andinhibiting students to enter the field.\ \ Our main purpose\ was to see if those\ differences could help findfactors\ \ influencing\ \ theimbalance\ \ of\ \ female\ \ participation.\ \ Both\ \ graduate\ \ and\ \ undergraduate\ \ populationswere\ \ investigated.\ \ It\ \ was\ \ found\ \ that\ \ there\ \ were\ \ differences\ \ by\ \ gender\ \ in\ \ both\ \ populations.\ \ \ \ As\ \ aconsequence of the knowledge of the discipline acquired during the permanence in the CS program andprofessional experience, both men and women change differently their perceptions.
}, url = {http://www2.clei.org/cleiej/paper.php?id=155}, author = {Mar{\'\i}n, Gabriela and Barrantes, E Gabriela and Chavarr{\'\i}a, Silvia} }