It is common to hear concerns about the fact
that women do not want to study technical careers and prefer to pursue other
professions, such as in health sciences, psychology or the humanities, where
they usually make the majority. In contrast, in technical schools there is usually a high percentage of male students.
For example, at the Higher Polytechnic School of the Autonomous University of
Madrid, during the 20 years between 1992 and 2012, in our degree in Computer
Engineering, two-thirds of the students were male, just one-third were female. And
between 2003 and 2012, in the degree in Telecommunications Engineering, the
proportion of women was even lower: there were three men for each woman.
