Browsing by Autor "Boris Branisa"

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An Open Data Platform to Advance Gender Equality in STEM in Latin America
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2024) Cristiano Maciél; Indira R. Guzman; Rita Cristina Galarraga Berardi; Nadia Rodríguez-Rodríguez; Luciana Cardoso de Castro Salgado; Luciana Bolan Frigo; Boris Branisa; Elizabeth Jiménez
Significant progress has been made during the last decades to achieve gender equality, but there is still much work to do. In particular, the gender gap is pronounced in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields at all levels ...
Mapping Contextual Aspects that Influences Women in Computing in Latin America
(University of Lima, 2023) Bárbara Moreira Drummond; Luciana Cardoso de Castro Salgado; Meirylene Avelino; José Viterbo; Karen Da Silva Figueiredo Medeiros Ribeiro; Mercedes Cigüeñas; Guillermo Antonio Dávila; Boris Branisa
In light of the already acknowledged underrepresentation of women in Computing, the ongoing project “Latin American Open Data for Gender Equality Policies Focusing on Leadership in STEM” aims to support the implementation of institutional policies to promote gender equality in STEM. Activity 4 of this project involves mapping 1the factors, actors and policies that influence the career development and leadership of women in STEM, as well as collecting and analyzing this data. To explore these factors, both a systematic mapping study and a grey literature mapping were conducted. The results encompass 8 types of contextual factors and 196 sub-factors. Some competency questions were also raised, providing valuable data for future steps.
Ripples of reciprocity: Navigating trust and collective governance in hydrosocial territories
(Elsevier BV, 2024) Wannes Slosse; Jean Paul Benavides; Boris Branisa; Jeroen Buysse; Marijke D’Haese; Carlos Eduardo Quezada Lambertín; Koen Schoors
The biological standard of living in La Paz (Bolivia), 1880s–1920s: Persistent stagnation and inequality
(Elsevier BV, 2020) Boris Branisa; José Peres‐Cajías; Nigel Caspa
The Institutional Basis of Gender Inequality: The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)
(Taylor & Francis, 2013) Boris Branisa; Stephan Klasen; Maria Ziegler; Denis Drechsler; Johannes Jütting
This study uses variables from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre's Gender, Institutions and Development (GID) Database to construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) and its subindices Family code, Civil liberties, Physical integrity, Son preference, and Ownership rights. Instead of measuring gender inequality in outcomes, the SIGI and its subindices measure long-lasting social institutions defined as societal practices and legal norms that frame gender roles. The SIGI combines them into a multidimensional index of women's deprivation caused by gendered social institutions. Inspired by the Foster–Greer–Thorbecke poverty measures, the SIGI offers a new way of aggregating gender inequality by penalizing high inequality in each dimension and allowing only partial compensation between subindices. The indices identify countries and dimensions of gendered social institutions that deserve attention. Empirical results confirm that the SIGI complements other gender-related indices.
The main factors explaining IT Career Choices of Female Students in Bolivia.
(Association for Information Systems, 2021) Boris Branisa; Patricia Cabero; Indira R. Guzman
In this study, we explore the factors explaining why Bolivian women are less likely to choose careers in information technology (IT). Through interviews and two focus groups we found that, among the factors highlighted in the international literature, the factors lifestyle values or work-family balance preferences, and stereotypes and prejudices related to gender are the ones that are most relevant in the Bolivian case. In addition, we identified three other relevant factors influencing career choice: (1) parents of students have a crucial influence on the choice of the major. To a lesser extent, we found that (2) study costs in careers in IT can influence the choices, and that (3) the training at school in the area of mathematics is relevant.