There has been a rising awareness in recent years of the gender inequalities within STEM-related programmes and the need to overcome them and so bridge the gender gap in these academic disciplines. Different initiatives ...

An increasing awareness of gender equality in the maritime sector is notable in recent years. While it is a good step forward, gender equality is often integrated into a diversity management agenda for leaders, but it is ...

The Erasmus student mobility programme allocates three explicit objectives to the experience of spending a few months studying in another European country: (1) to benefit students educationally, linguistically and culturally; ...

Clàudia Barahona, Xavier Martínez, Santiago Ordàs i Marcel·la Castells, professors de la Facultat de Nàutica de Barcelona (FNB), expliquen com han incorporat la la competència transversal de perspectiva de gènere als estudis ...

(English) In the area of Maritime Education and Training (MET), the existing gender gap constitutes a widespread cause of concern. Despite a significant increase in the numbers of female students in Science, Technology, ...

Absenteeism at the university level can be attributed to a multitude of factors. Some of these factors are academic self-perception, attitudes towards teachers, or academic performance. Others are more closely associated ...

This study assesses the development process of a tool to measure students’ perceptions of gender mainstreaming in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) studies. Within the framework of a pilot project ...

Although the figures of female students in technical studies have increased in recent years, in MET male students still greatly outnumber female ones. This inequality is transferred to the maritime professional sector, ...