Deployment of territorial structures to reduce gender gap in technology and some real cases in Catalonia

Abstract

Gender gap in computer science related fields is one of the most critical among all technological areas. This paper describes the methodology used to create gender commissions and providing them of a territorial structure around informatics engineering and artificial intelligence, two close areas where the presence of women is critical both at professional level, as well as training level. Territorial structure provides an additional potential very useful for the impact of the activities of the commission. Here the creation of two gender structures in Catalonia is presented