Education, Women and Technology: Gender training preferences Analysis

Abstract

Nowadays, there is a great concern about the gender gap and the digital one which exist in the Information Technology and
Communication (ICT), which portrays the existence of a low level of representation of women in technological fields and in the business
world. Thus, it generates a loss of diversity of opinions. It must be taken into account gender to generate a technology adapted to their
characteristics. In order to analyze gender issues in the formative preferences, specially, those related with technology. We have led a
study with companies, university students and teachers on various training courses. Thus we see if there an interest, mainly by issues
related to the Information and Business to serve as a guide in order to bring women to these fields. This study has been made from
2013 to 2015 in the Canary Islands. The results indicate that the courses related to the IT are the most demanded by the majority of
the samples, where women show a great interest in it; but not for the creation or programming of technology, but also for the office IT
and design. The second most demanded professional family is followed by the Business, highlighting the female own election about
it. These results reflect if there is a possibility for women to choose their profession promoted by their vocation or are influenced by
external agents.