SEVILLA, 23 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Council of Equality, Social Policies and Conciliation of the Junta de Andalucía, through the Andalusian Institute for Women (IAM), and the Ministry of Education and Sports promote entrepreneurship workshops from a “gender perspective” for students and have organized a cycle of three ‘webinars’ for teachers in the face of the “gender gap” that is detected in the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector, where “only 2% of 15-year-old girls have expectations of working as a professional compared to 20% of boys “.
It is one of the conclusions of the study ‘Decipher the code: The education of girls and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)’ of UNESCO (2019), and of which the Andalusian Institute of Woman (IAM) echoes in her report ‘The situation of girls & women in STEM from a comparative perspective’, as reported this Sunday by the Ministry of Equality in a note.
The IAM and the Ministry of Education have promoted a dozen ‘on-line’ workshops aimed at second cycle ESO, Bachelor and Vocational Training (FP) students that will be held in the network of educational centers that participate in the ‘Innicia’ program ‘of Education, at least one for each Andalusian province.
This training, which is interactive through the ‘Moodle’ platform, will take place during school hours and also at home. The courses, which will have a participation of between 30 to 40 people, have started this May and will run until June 10.
Likewise, on this occasion a cycle of three ‘webinars’ has also been planned for teachers on promoting entrepreneurship with a gender perspective in the classroom. This initiative began on Thursday May 13 and will end on May 27. Each session will have the participation of 50 people, although almost a hundred applications have been received for each of them, according to the Board.
In this regard, the Minister of Equality, Social Policies and Conciliation, Rocío Ruiz, has stressed that “the profile of the entrepreneur in our country is that of a male (82%), university (97%) and with a master’s degree (82% of STEM careers) .While, women continue to encounter barriers such as access to financing – the so-called ‘green roof’ -, low participation in social networks, difficulty in reconciliation, the gender gap in the use of ICT, the lack of female references and support “.
Ruiz has drawn attention to one of the conclusions of the Unesco report: “Girls lose interest in STEM subjects with age, especially between the first and last years of adolescence. This decrease in interest affects their participation in the advanced studies in higher education, “has abounded.
“Not in vain, in any degree or master’s degree in Computer Science at Andalusian universities, women have a presence greater than 25%,” the counselor warned. Along the same lines, the European Commission warns that 57% of graduates in higher education in the European Union are women, but only 24.9% graduate in science and technology and “very few” enter these sectors.
Against this background, the counselor has described “it is essential that students and, especially, female students receive training in entrepreneurship from a gender perspective, away from sexist roles and stereotypes that only contribute to limiting the full development of students.”
“In my counseling and in the IAM we are convinced that equal education is the way to move towards a fairer and more egalitarian Andalusia”, said Rocío Ruiz, who also valued “very positively” that this training also reaches teachers .
Along these lines, he has stated that “the influence of teachers in creating learning spaces so that girls and boys can reflect on equal opportunities is undoubted, so it is necessary that they have the best possible training.”
THE WORKSHOPS AND ‘WEBINARS’
As detailed by the Ministry of Equality, the workshops for students consist of four modules in which a personal self-analysis of entrepreneurial skills will be carried out, breaking sexist stereotypes, tools will be used to address the business idea, and stereotyped gender roles will be broken. when choosing what type of entrepreneurship to carry out and learn about successful experiences of women entrepreneurs and STEM women in Spain.
The students will have the virtual Campus available 24 hours, tutorials and will have to carry out each of the self-evaluations at the end of each unit, as well as a final exam. In addition, it will have complementary activities, practical cases, videos or news and a discussion forum.
Meanwhile, the teacher training is divided into three ‘webinars’ in which it will address how to help students to evaluate their entrepreneurial skills with a gender perspective, how to advise them to implement their idea or project and how to encourage students to be interested in STEM professions.
The objective of this cycle is “to contribute to increasing teacher training to create inclusive learning spaces in the classroom, in which students can develop their entrepreneurial potential, reflect on their profile, motivations, strengths and weaknesses, in relation to opportunities and threats in the labor market, from a gender perspective to facilitate the generation of ideas, develop their creative potential and observe the environment as a source of opportunities “.
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