Abstract

 
 
 In recent times a dramatically decreasing tendency in female participation in Computer Science has been documented around the world. When this occurs, it creates a series of problems that must be addressed. For the case of the undergraduate and graduate programs in Computer Science and Informatics at the Universidad de Costa Rica, we present evidence that (a) women are under-represented at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and (b) the relative frequency of women in the undergraduate (but not graduate!) levels is effectively decreasing, and (c) women are more efficient at both graduating and getting admitted to graduate programs. Based on the available data, we confirm that the differences are not because of some inherent female deficiency but due to gender issues.
 
 
Highlights
Far less women than men are graduating from the undergraduate and graduate programs at the Escuela de Ciencias de la Computación e Informática (ECCI) (School of Computer Science and Informatics) from the Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR)
The population is relativeley homogeneous, with 80% of students coming from the Bachelors at ECCI, 15% coming from the undergraduate program in Computer Science (CS) at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR), a program very similar to ours, and the remaining 5% come from other programs in CS or similar areas
This study confirms the difference in participation of women both in the undergraduate and the graduate programs in Computer and Informatics (CI) at the UCR
Summary
Among students and professors, is important in any universitary program. In this paper we will focus on the Bachelor Program in CI at the UCR, the ECCI (defined above). The ECCI was founded in 1981 and currently graduates about one third of the CI professionals from public universities. Most of the students (over 85%) choose to follow the professional modality. The population is relativeley homogeneous, with 80% of students coming from the Bachelors at ECCI, 15% coming from the undergraduate program in Computer Science (CS) at the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR), a program very similar to ours, and the remaining 5% come from other programs in CS or similar areas. In this article we are going to review the status of the participation of the students, male and female, in the ECCI, both at the undergraduate as the graduate levels
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