Marta Roqueta-Fernández (predoctoral researcher) and Alisa Petroff (postdoctoral researcher), from the IN3's Gender and ICT (GenTIC) research group, have been invited to speak at the WSCITECH21 Women, Science and Technology conference.
Venue
Online
Espanya
When
25/03/2021
Organized by
Terrassa City Council; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, School of Industrial, Aerospace and Audiovisual Engineering of Terrassa (BarcelonaTech) and the UNESCO Chair on Sustainability
Program
Their talks will take place on Thursday 25 March.
Marta Roqueta-Fernández's talk will be at 10:45 a.m. (CET) and is on Female engineers to reduce the pay gap: the limits of the financial focus of promoting STEM careers among girls. It analyses the OECD's 2015 recommendations for the promotion of STEM careers among girls.
Alisa Petroff's talk will be at 12 noon (CET) and is on Women's participation on crowdsourcing platforms: challenges and opportunities in the digital economy's tech sectors.
Other highlights that same day include:
A talk by Candela Ollé, member of the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences and researcher in the GAME research group. It will take place at 5:45 p.m. (CET) and is on the Safer Cities for Girls project: model and application.
A talk by Emilio Ferrer, course instructor at the UOC and the EUIT, at 5:10 p.m. (CET) on Masculinity and work.
You can find the conference programme here.