Gender Balance Actions, Policies and Strategies for STEM: Results from a World Café Conversation
Date
2019-12-27
Authors
García-Peñalvo, F. J.
Bello, A.
Dominguez, A.
Romero Chacón, R. M.
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Publisher
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
Abstract
W-STEM project is working to reduce the existing gender gap in Science, specifically in STEM
fields in Latin America. During an International Leadership Summit, held in Cartagena de Indias
(Colombia) on November 26th, 2019 within the project scope, forty-four people, including
researchers and policymakers at the higher education institutions, participated in a World Café
conversation to discuss about the potential actions, policies and strategies might be develop in
the universities to reduce the above mentioned gender gap in STEM studies. Four tables were
conducted, and this paper summarizes the most outstanding conclusions of the conversations.
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Keywords
STEM, W-STEM, actions, policies, strategies, gender
Citation
García-Peñalvo, F. J., Bello, A., Dominguez, A., & Romero Chacón, R. M. (2019). Gender Balance Actions, Policies and Strategies for STEM: Results from a World Café Conversation. Education in the Knowledge Society, 20, 31-31 – 31-15. 31. doi:10.14201/eks2019_20_a31