MOTIVACIÓN POR ESTUDIAR CARRERAS DE INGENIERÍA: UN ESTUDIO CON PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO EN LA FACULTAD DE INGENIERÍA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA

Abstract

This work focuses on the problem at a global level about the low number of young people, in particular women, who study science and engineering careers. This is part of a larger problem that has to do with the gender gap and the low accessibility of women to education and, especially, science education. Based on a research group on science education at the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of La Plata, we intend to contribute to discuss this phenomenon, for which a questionnaire was built as an instrument to obtain data about the motivation expressed by a group of students from the mentioned Faculty to choose their careers. The results indicate that high school and the family are the educational and social areas that most influence the choice of young women in general, and women in particular, to study engineering careers. In addition, it appears that they do not have female models of reference for their choices. What was observed will serve as a basis to generate educational, political and / or social strategies thatcollaborate with greater accessibility, motivation and interest on the part of women in the study of science and engineering careers.

Keywords

• engineering
• women
• genre
• latin america