Gender By Numbers: Is Your Education Course Dominated By Your Opposite Gender?

In this paper we present Gender by Numbers, a physical and virtual prototype that exhibits the gender imbalances in the pursuit of future careers. Our system collects and measures relationships between courses and gender retrieved from university statistical data. Our goal is to explore how high school students can be nudged towards gender consciousness and be aware of the gender imbalance of a course before applying to the university.

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Sara Tranquada

Nuno Correia

Ana Caraban

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-5

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[0001]FCT, M-ITI

Portugal

[0002]NOVA Lincs, FCT

Portugal

[0003]IST, M-ITI

Portugal

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.186

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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[1] E.J. BaeslerJ.K. Burgoon 1994 The Temporal Effects of Story and Statistical Evidence on Belief Change Commun. Res. 21 582 602 http://doi.org/10.1177/009365094021005002

[2] DGES [WWW Document], n.d. URL http://www.dges.gov.pt/pt 1 26 17

[3] S. Henn 2014 When Women Stopped Coding [WWW Document] NPR.org. URL http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding 1 17 17

[4] C. Lecher 2018 James Damore sues Google for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men [WWW Document] The Verge URL http://www.theverge.com/2018/1/8/16863342/james-damore-google-lawsuit-diversity-memo 5 25 18

[5] B.A. NosekF.L. SmythN. SriramN.M. LindnerT. DevosA. AyalaY. Bar-AnanR. BerghH. CaiK. GonsalkoraleS. KesebirN. MaliszewskiF. NetoE. OlliJ. ParkK. SchnabelK. ShiomuraB.T. TulbureR.W. WiersM. SomogyiN. AkramiB. EkehammarM. VianelloM.R. BanajiA.G. Greenwald 2009 National differences in gender–science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci 106 10593 10597 http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0809921106

[6] R.I.M.D. Luna 2016 Patricia Ordóñez: Propelling computer science into the health industry and equity [WWW Document]Cienc URLP. R. http://www.cienciapr.org/en/monthly-story/patricia-ordonez-propelling-computer-science-health-industry-and-equity 5 25 18

[7] Popovamaria 2014 I’m Glad I’m a Boy! I’m Glad I’m a Girl! – Brain Pickings [WWW Document] URL http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/20/im-glad-im-a-boy-im-glad-im-a-girl-darrow/ 1 26 17

[8] K.L. Tonso 2006 Student Engineers and Engineer Identity: Campus Engineer Identities as Figured World Cult. Stud. Sci. Educ 1 273 307 http://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-005-9009-2

[9] T. Wang-L., Y.-K. Tseng 2018 The Comparative Effectiveness of Physical, Virtual, and Virtual-Physical Manipulatives on Third-Grade Students’ Science Achievement and Conceptual Understanding of Evaporation and Condensation Int. J. Sci. Math. Educ 16 203 219 http://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-016-9774-2

[10] W.M. WilliamsS.J. Ceci 2015 National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112 5360 5365 http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1418878112

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