@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} }