1 1 What Leads Women to Pursue a Research Career in the Field of Icts? The Case of Spanish (original) (raw)

Although the presence of women in universities and research centers is on the increase, the dearth of women in the ICT field is not something new. As we ascend in the hierarchy of research activities, women’s under-representation becomes more evident. The main aim of this paper is to analyze the presence and position of women in ICT research activity. For this reason, different quantitative (a database and a survey) and qualitative (study cases, in-depth interviews and biographies) methods were used in order to know more about the main characteristics of research groups, their location within Spain, the type of participation of women in these research groups, research inputs and outputs of these research groups, specific strategies to