Programming, applying it, that is what women studying it prefer, while men feel more for the hardware side, the systems. So says a Spanish study of how men and women differ in terms of performance and specializations.
The researchers are Julià Minguillón and Maria Jesús Marco-Galindo of the Steam University Learning Research Group(EduSteam); Elena Planas of the SOM Research Lab group of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute(IN3) and professor Josep Maria Marco-Simó. All are with the Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya(UOC).
They have published an open-access paper, "How do the trajectories of male and female computer science graduates differ?" (The case of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). Three conclusions of the study are that women who begin an undergraduate degree in computer technology do so with more prior knowledge than their male counterparts, perform slightly better and choose different paths.
