TY - GEN
T1 - Challenges and Opportunities when Deploying a Gender STEM Intervention during a Pandemic
AU - Travers, Marie
AU - Richardson, Ita
AU - Higgins, Linda
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Women are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). There are many initiatives which have been implemented in efforts to change this imbalance, including in primary, secondary and third-level institutions. Some are supported by governments, for example, by Science Foundation Ireland in Ireland, by professional bodies, such as IEEE, and by companies. Initiatives are targeted at STEM in general, and at subsets of the discipline. In fact, there are many STEM intervention programmes worldwide from which we in software engineering can learn. The logistics around planning and implementing a STEM intervention programme are many. This is compounded when a programme must quickly pivot and change how it is provided due to external factors. While this paper presents our experience on one STEM intervention, the University of Limerick-Lero/Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D (Women in STEM, Manufacturing and Design) programme, it also discusses and describes the challenges and the opportunities that became apparent when it had to completely change how it was deployed and implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CCS CONCEPTS • Social and Professional Topics • Professional Topics • Computing Education ACM Reference format: Marie Travers, Ita Richardson and Linda Higgins. 2021. Challenges and Opportunities when Deploying a Gender STEM Intervention During a Pandemic. In Proceedings of GE@ICSE conference (GE@ICSE'22). GE@ICSE, Pittsburgh. USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3524501.3527596
AB - Women are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). There are many initiatives which have been implemented in efforts to change this imbalance, including in primary, secondary and third-level institutions. Some are supported by governments, for example, by Science Foundation Ireland in Ireland, by professional bodies, such as IEEE, and by companies. Initiatives are targeted at STEM in general, and at subsets of the discipline. In fact, there are many STEM intervention programmes worldwide from which we in software engineering can learn. The logistics around planning and implementing a STEM intervention programme are many. This is compounded when a programme must quickly pivot and change how it is provided due to external factors. While this paper presents our experience on one STEM intervention, the University of Limerick-Lero/Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D (Women in STEM, Manufacturing and Design) programme, it also discusses and describes the challenges and the opportunities that became apparent when it had to completely change how it was deployed and implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CCS CONCEPTS • Social and Professional Topics • Professional Topics • Computing Education ACM Reference format: Marie Travers, Ita Richardson and Linda Higgins. 2021. Challenges and Opportunities when Deploying a Gender STEM Intervention During a Pandemic. In Proceedings of GE@ICSE conference (GE@ICSE'22). GE@ICSE, Pittsburgh. USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3524501.3527596
KW - Female
KW - Gender
KW - Intervention
KW - STEM
KW - Students
KW - WiSTEMD
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138378388&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3524501.3527596
DO - 10.1145/3524501.3527596
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85138378388
T3 - Proceedings - 3rd Workshop on Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering, GEICSE 2022
SP - 59
EP - 66
BT - Proceedings - 3rd Workshop on Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering, GEICSE 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 3rd Workshop on Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering, GEICSE 2022
Y2 - 20 May 2022
ER -
