Gender differential approach to equitable education in engineering programs (#726)

Authors

OJEDA CAICEDO, VILMA VIVIANA

CARDOZO ARRIETA, BEATRIZ MARÍA

LIZCANO ORTIZ, NANCY YADIRA

CARRILLO LANDAZABAL, MARTHA SOFIA

Abstract

Although there is a greater number of women with access to education, and greater persistence and graduation in the different engineering programs and fields, it is still necessary that the education received by all students, men and women, allows them to develop their cognitive, social and professional potential under equal conditions. This requires an engineering education with pedagogical models, curricula and teaching practices that are transversal to the demands of an education that considers the particularities and needs of male and female students. There must also be a gender-sensitive approach that recognizes the existence of stereotypes and mental and cultural models that are consciously or unconsciously present in the educational environment and need to be identified. For the above, six strategies are proposed: training and policies promoting gender equality, management and socialization of knowledge, communication and dissemination, data processing and management, transforming teaching for gender equality, and evaluation of results and impact of the strategies through specific indicators, for higher education institutions with engineering programs.The strategies are the result of a review and analysis of the literature and the compilation of experiences and practices that promote and motivate the implementation of the gender approach in the training processes of engineering programs. The article aims to guide the institutionalization of the gender approach in the education of engineering programs through the implementation and evaluation of the proposed.