Abstract: In Costa Rica, women who finish their secondary education select engineering and similar careers to a lesser extent to continue their training. The selection has been concentrated in the areas of social sciences, education and health, with the state being the largest employer in the last two. However, these sectors have stagnated in growth and most of the emerging job opportunities are located in the science and technology sector. All this causes women to have more problems in accessing the positions that the labor market currently generates. Considering that within the employed population, women have higher rates of unemployment and face greater wage gaps, it is worth studying what leads women to study an engineering career or not, what factors influence the decision such as previous digital skills, their secondary education experience, stereotypes, and family support, among others. In this project we focus on the factors that have led women to decide to study careers related to computing |