LAWCC 2023
XV Congress of Latin American Women in Computing 2023

Table of Contents

• Summary: There were 27 papers submitted for peer-review to this congress. Out of these, 19 papers were accepted for this volume.

• An educational intervention for inclusion of deaf students in computing 1-10
  Vania Souza, Maristela Holanda, Carla Koike, Aleteia Araujo

• Analysis of the inclusion of female students in STEM/ICT majors at the Gerardo Barrios University of El Salvador: a gender perspective 11-22
  Gisela Yasmín García Espinoza

• Analysis of the perception of security at the Concepción campus of Universidad del Bío-Bío 23-33
  Monica Caniupan, Leticia Galleguillos, Tatiana Gutierrez-Bunster, Katherine Prats, Alejandra Segura, Brunny Troncoso

• Analysis of women's participation in STEM careers preand post- pandemic COVID - 19 34-43
  Gabriela Carolina Reynosa Perez, Aguilar Navarro Marlene Elizabeth

• Code Huntresses: promoting gender equity in ICTs 44-55
  Romina García, Alejandra Armendariz, Julieta Umpierrez, Claudina Rattaro

• Experience in the creation of the JUMI community: Achievement after two years 56-66
  Emilcy Juliana Hernandez Leal, Gloria Piedad Gasca-Hurtado, María Clara Gómez-Álvarez

• First steps towards gender equity in engineering at Universidad EAFIT in Colombia 57-78
  Silvana Montoya-Noguera, Liliana González-Palacio, Elizabeth Suescún-Monsalve, Mauricio Toro Bermúdez

• How and why teach computer science from a gender perspective in schools? 79-90
  Mariana Labhart

• Importance of STEM areas and education in the department of La Paz 81-101
  Fatima Consuelo Dolz, Carla Vanesa Mamani

• International mobility for enhancing leadership in women engineering students: a case study connecting Colombia and Spain 102-114
  Alicia García-Holgado, Sonia Verdugo-Castro, Vilma V. Ojeda-Caicedo, Sonia H. Contreras-Ortiz

• Learning Based on typhlotechnology through the STEAM methodology 115-121
  Luciana Dalila Coronel de López, Nohelia María Dolores Ríos García

• Mobile application as a technological alternative for the inclusion of women in STEM areas: UTN Case Study 122-133
  Guadalupe Cuascota, Alexander Guevara-Vega, Luz María Tobar Subía Contento, Jorge Caraguay

• Participation of university women under regulations and strategies promoting gender equity in STEM/ICT careers in El Salvador 134-145
  Gabriela Carolina Reynosa Perez, Aguilar Navarro Marlene Elizabeth

• Perceptions of the gender gap in higher education and how to improve female students' integration: A case study in two engineering majors of UTPL 146-158
  Janneth Chicaiza, Soledad Segarra-Morales, Germania Rodríguez, Fanny Cevallos-Macas

• ProgramADAmente: educational and social platform to bring programming closer to girls and teenage girls 159-170
  Rebeca Fernández, Evelyn Kremer, Andrea Delgado

• Promotion of research: A cornerstone of the Latin American open chair Matilda and the women in engineering 171-178
  Carolina Garvizu, Susana Vargas, Sonia H. Contreras-Ortiz, Silvana Montoya-Noguera

• Results of playful STEM-promotion: Software engineering career: Universidad Técnica Nacional, in 2022 179-191
  Kattia Rebeca Rodríguez-Brenes, Ana Magali Salazar-Ávila, Marielos Murillo-Herrera

• The Brazilian professional, scientific, and technological education system as an instrument for promoting gender equality in computing 192-203
  Sara Luiz de Farias, Maria Isabela Silva Nunes, Natália do Carmo Louzada, Thalia Santos de Santana, Ramayane Bonacin Braga, Adriano Honorato Braga

• Women's computer science entrepreneurship: case study UTPL 204-213
  Germania Rodriguez-Morales, Soledad Segarra, Fernanda Soto, Samanta Cueva