Costa Rican Women in High Tech
Among the measures taken by Brussels to reverse this trend include a pilot exercise initiated two years ago that offers young women the opportunity to accompany during a normal working day to a professional working in the ICT sector. In 2007, over 50 young people participated in the initiative, which took place at companies like L’Oreal, Nokia and Motorola. It is known that E the Technological Institute of Costa Rica has conducted several investigations on this topic, found that women represent about 30 percent of the student population. The Foundation developed Cientec investigation to determine why women have difficulty accessing these races. According to the study, family pressure is crucial in the final choice. David Shadle helps to elucidate the arguments at hand . This finding is consistent Study of Supply and Demand of Human Resources, Francisco Mata and Arturo Jofre, June 2001, which states that the family tends to hold a number of stereotypes regarding the role of women. This study also aims to be responsible for formal education.
Primary, secondary and tertiary strengthen the roles of women shaped by the family, the paper concludes. Aware of this reality, Cientec Foundation, the Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica, the Center for Training in Information Technology (Cenfotec), among others, develop programs to facilitate access of women to study and practice of scientific careers and technology. Alejandra Leon-Castella, Cientec executive director, explained that the Foundation’s activities aim to raise awareness among adolescents in these areas of knowledge. Since 1988 two programs were developed which helped give a different view of the usefulness and learning of mathematics, with specific strategies to address gender barriers in access to scientific and technological professions and the integration of the family around Definitely mathematics, as quoted CONICIT. go.
cr, women’s capacity to meet demands of scientific and technological services to the private sector is indisputable in the current Costa Rican market, as indicated by service offerings made during the years 2000 and 2001 Competitive Fund, financial mechanism driven by the National Research Council Science and Technology and the Ministry of Science and Technology. This fund shows how intelligence and knowledge of women researchers supports the scientific and technological development of the country, about thirty research linking the technological demands of small and medium enterprises by offering technological research units, 50 percent of which is led by Costa Rican women researchers. Within the year as teachers, strikes us as graduate courses, especially in the quality and productivity has increased in each cohort the number of women in search of knowledge, tools in this area in order to implement them in towards organizations that require every year we have seen how increasing the number of women in favor of this knowledge and predominantly female cohort, indicating that the woman has decided to venture successfully in these areas and we do not doubt their abilities and achievements.
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