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# LAWCC 2024
Latin American Women in Computing 2024

### Proceedings of the XVI Congress of Latin American Women in Computing 2024 (LAWCC 2024)
co-located with L Latin American Computer Conference (CLEI 2024)

### Bahía Blanca, Argentina, August 14, 2024.

Edited by

### Silvana Roncagliolo de la Horra 1
Laura A. Cecchi 2
Rocío Cecchini 3
Veronica Gil-Costa 4

1 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Escuela de Ingeniería Informática, Valparaíso, Chile
2 Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Facultad de Informática, Neuquén, Argentina
3 Universidad Nacional del Sur, Departamento de Ciencias e Ingeniería de la Computación, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
4 Universidad Nacional de San Luis, FCFMyN, San Luis, Argentina

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 17 papers submitted for peer-review to this congress. Out of these, 10 papers were accepted for this volume.

- Adaptation and application of the QSTEMHE questionnaire on gender stereotypes in STEM studies to the Brazilian context 1-12
  Maura Angelica Milfont Shzu, Sonia Verdugo-Castro, Alicia García-Holgado

- A Literature Mapping of the Congress of Latin American Women in Computing (LAWCC) Papers 13-26
  Maristela Holanda, M. Elena García-Díaz, Alexandra González-Eras, Carolina González-Süllow, Alicia García-Holgado, Gabriela Marín-Raventós, Donna A. Roper, Germania Rodriguez-Morales, Rosiane de Freitas

- Initiatives to Reduce the Gender Gap in Senior Management: Actions Developed by Organizations in Chile 27-37
  Lilian San-Martín, Alicia García-Holgado, Angeles Dominguez

- Hack4women: In search of a framework 38-49
  Giannina Costa, Alicia García-Holgado, Pamela P. Alvarez

- Occupational inheritance and the decision for a university career: a study on women IT professionals in Peru 50-61
  Nadia Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Kory Ponce, Indira R. Guzman

- University student dropout prediction for female students in the Computer Engineering career 62-73
  Ellen L. Méndez Xavier, Fabrizio Coscia, Christian von Lücken

- Mapeamento de Iniciativas Brasileiras em STEM no Instagram: Uma Discussão Metodológica 74-85
  Ana Clara de Arruda Nunes, Francielli Freitas Moro, Luciana Bolan Frigo, Raquel de Barros Miguel, Sílvia Amélia Bim

- Analysis of the professional development level of participants of the TecnoGirls project at the Gerardo Barrios University of El Salvador 86-97
  Gisela Espinoza, Jeany Argueta

- Challenging the gender gap in STEM with Python and Data Science: case of the National Technical University de Costa Rica 98-109
  María Biarreta Portillo, Josué Castro Ramírez, María Mora Cross, Kattia Rodríguez Brenes, Te Chen Huang

- Nourishing girls’ passion for Computing Sciences: let’s eliminate barriers and build bridges 110-121
  Laura A. Cecchi, Verónica Dahl

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