Shaping the Digital Content of Mentoring Programs for Women in Informatics: Insights from an Exploratory Study

Francisca Sousa, Leonor Tejo, Sunny Miranda, Paula Alexandra Silva

2025

Abstract

Gender disparities in Informatics persist as a significant issue, with women facing barriers to entry, retention, and advancement. Mentoring programs hold the potential to improve this issue. Because change demands a collective response, this study explores how to shape the digital content of mentoring programs to support the students, women and men, in an Informatics department. This work builds upon the findings of a focus group study, complementing them by applying a questionnaire to gain insight into students’ academic experiences, perceptions of the benefits of a mentoring program, and preferences concerning digital communication platforms. Findings indicate that the digital content of mentoring programs can help in three keyways: providing insights into the job market, shedding light on career and recruitment processes, and offering real-life content. These findings are valuable to departments and mentoring programs that wish to support women in Informatics through the digital content of their websites and social media platforms.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sousa F., Tejo L., Miranda S. and Silva P. (2025). Shaping the Digital Content of Mentoring Programs for Women in Informatics: Insights from an Exploratory Study. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU; ISBN 978-989-758-746-7, SciTePress, pages 931-941. DOI: 10.5220/0013286000003932

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu25,
author={Francisca Sousa and Leonor Tejo and Sunny Miranda and Paula Silva},
title={Shaping the Digital Content of Mentoring Programs for Women in Informatics: Insights from an Exploratory Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU},
year={2025},
pages={931-941},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013286000003932},
isbn={978-989-758-746-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU
TI - Shaping the Digital Content of Mentoring Programs for Women in Informatics: Insights from an Exploratory Study
SN - 978-989-758-746-7
AU - Sousa F.
AU - Tejo L.
AU - Miranda S.
AU - Silva P.
PY - 2025
SP - 931
EP - 941
DO - 10.5220/0013286000003932
PB - SciTePress