{"id":118293,"date":"2020-04-21T21:33:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T19:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/la-incorporacion-de-las-mujeres-en-la-carrera-informatica\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:34:13","slug":"la-incorporacion-de-las-mujeres-en-la-carrera-informatica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/en\/womens\/blog\/la-incorporacion-de-las-mujeres-en-la-carrera-informatica\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing More Women into the Computing Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paula Brenes Ram\u00edrez, Marketing Director at UCenfotec<\/p>\n

CEA Digital Law IT Technology Executive at the Costa Rica Node<\/p>\n

\u201cProgramming requires patience and the ability to manage details.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>\u201cWomen are naturals at computer programming\u201d; \u201cit’s about time, because this is the age of the Computer Girls.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

The quotations above come from a 1967 Cosmopolitan magazine article, which includes a remark by the renowned Dr. Grace Hopper: \u201cIt’s just like planning a dinner\u201d… After reading the full article and considering the historical moment, we can now ask ourselves what happened over time; it seems as though the reality we live in is an alternate world straight out of Marvel.<\/p>\n

According to a BBC article from the previous year, women have moved into areas of the labor market that were formerly reserved for men over recent decades, yet they still make up only a small part of the computing sector: they hold fewer than 25% of the industry’s jobs worldwide. The situation is no different in Costa Rica, where an estimated two out of every ten IT professionals are women. Dr. Gabriela Mar\u00edn, a pioneer in the field of women in technology in Costa Rica, explains that \u201calthough few women pursue these kinds of degrees, female computer scientists are just as successful as men in terms of their likelihood of graduating, and many of them even manage to graduate in less time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The findings of CAMTIC’s ICT Sector Mapping are now well known: Costa Rica needs 8,000 technicians and professionals specializing in ICT. CINDE’s study of human-capital demand identified ten university fields and ten technical fields in high demand among employers, with Software Engineering in first place. Yet young women continue to enroll in programs for which there is no labor-market demand. Data published by the Colegio de Profesionales en Inform\u00e1tica y Computaci\u00f3n (CPIC) show that only 1,161 of its approximately 6,500 active members are women.<\/p>\n

Several organizations in Costa Rica have undertaken efforts to bring more women into the world of technology: the Sul\u00e1 Bats\u00fa cooperative through its TICAS program, Red MenTe, Voces Vitales, CAMTIC, Micitt, CPIC and the academic sector. To date, however, there is no national policy promoting gender equity in the digital sector’s labor market, and only a few companies have made public their efforts to bring more women into this field, including Akamai, Intel, Prodigious, HP, Accenture and Gridshield. Universities such as UCenfotec, UH, TEC, UNED and UTN, for their part, report on their internal programs for attracting and retaining young women in technology.<\/p>\n

If we understand that stereotypes must be broken, that educating the community and families is essential and, above all, that young women must be shown another world full of opportunities, then it is vital to give them spaces in which to discover and experiment with technology, understand what an IT university degree involves and see what technology can accomplish as a means to an end rather than an end per se<\/em>. In this way, we can bring about change in our country.<\/p>\n

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P.S.: Dr. Paula’s article of November 10, 2016 remains relevant today.\u00a0<\/abbr><\/p>\n

originally published in revistapetra<\/p>\n

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