Gender Inequalities in the Information Systems Engineering Course

Abstract

This is a quantitative study of the curre nt and historical situation of female admission and desertion in the Information Systems Engineering course, based on a theoretic al analysis about the general panorama and its context on gender inequalities in STEM university courses (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). It highlights the low rate of gender parity from the very beginning and the fact that it decreases in the last years of the course, as a result of a greater desertion of women than men It is the first step of a research work in progress, which also provides a qualitative approach to the causes of this phenomenon and whose horizon is the design of university policies aimed at achieving greater gender parity in the course.