Supplementary Material of the research study "Towards Gender Parity: Analyzing the Women Participation in STEM"

The files present data considered in the analysis of students graduated in Brazil, from 2010 to 2019, with the purpose of contrasting STEM and Not STEM courses.

The data was derived from Higher Education Census [Inep,2021].

For the classification of courses as STEM courses, it was used the definition given by the SAGA methodology [UNESCO, 2016, 2017b], which refers to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED).

ISCED was then related to the International Standard Classification of Education for Graduate and Specialized Courses in Brazil (Cine Brazil) [Inep, 2021], which classifies Brazilian undergraduate courses and is referenced by the official classification of courses in the Higher Education Census [Inep,2021].

References

Inep (2021). Censo da Educação Superior. Brasília, DF. Available at https://www.gov.br/inep/pt-br/areasde-atuacao/pesquisas-estatisticas-e-indicadores/censo-daeducacao-superior/censo-da-educacao-superior.

 Inep (2021). Cine Brasil. Brasília, DF. Available at https://www.gov.br/inep/pt-br/areas-eatuacao/

pesquisas-estatisticas-e-indicadores/cinebrasil/cine-brasil.

 UNESCO (2016). Measuring Gender Equality in Science and Engineering: the SAGA Science, Technology and Innovation Gender Objective List (STI GOL). Technical Report SAGA Working Paper 1, UNESCO, Paris.

 UNESCO (2017b). Measuring Gender Equality in Science and Engineering: the SAGA Toolkit. Technical Report SAGA Working Paper 2, UNESCO, Paris.