• DocumentCode
    592739
  • Title

    Choice career and work expectations by gender for students of the bachelor in Informática Empresarial, Sede Occidente Universidad de Costa Rica

  • Author

    Chaves, M.A. ; Ramirez, I.R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. de Cienc. Naturales, UCR, Alajuela, Costa Rica
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    1-5 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    10
  • Abstract
    This article has the purpose of presenting the results of a gender-driven investigation about the perception that students, enrolled in the Bachelor of enterprise computing/Corporate IT offered at the University of Costa Rica (Western Campus), have when choosing a career to enroll in and what their work life expectations are. This essay presents therefore; the factors that encourage women, in the largest regional campus (San Ramon and Grecia), to enroll in this program and it points out what their expectations are for when they will walk out in the working market. This essay also includes an analysis on the similarities and differences found when compared to the opinions of men in this same regional campus.
  • Keywords
    computer science education; educational institutions; gender issues; Bachelor of enterprise computing; Grecia; Informática Empresarial; San Ramon; Sede Occidente Universidad de Costa Rica; choice career; corporate IT; gender-driven investigation; student gender; work expectations; Art; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Instruments; Manufacturing; Silicon; Western Campus; career selection; enterprise computing/Corporate IT; gender; work opportunities expectations;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Informatica (CLEI), 2012 XXXVIII Conferencia Latinoamericana En
  • Conference_Location
    Medellin
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0794-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEI.2012.6427244
  • Filename
    6427244