Initiatives and Strategies to Encourage Women into Engineering Paderewski Rodríguez, Patricia García Arenas, María Isabel Gil-Iranzo, Rosa María González-González, Carina Soledad Martínez Ortigosa, Eva Padilla Zea, Natalia strategy gender engineering Education This paper deals with the problem of the small number of women who enroll in technical studies or work in technological enterprises. Although we have focused on initiatives that have been launched in Spain, we have also included several studies from around the world, which try to encourage women into engineering. Once we have reviewed these proposals and confirmed that they have not resulted in a growth of women in technologies, we suggest other proposals and actions such as empathic co-creation from primary education, which could improve this situation and thus provide the benefits of reducing this gender gap. 2026-01-20T10:03:34Z 2026-01-20T10:03:34Z 2017-05-04 journal article Paderewski, P., Arenas, M.G, Iranzo, R.G., González, C.G. Ortigosa, E. M., Padilla-Zea, N. Initiatives and Strategies to Encourage Women into Engineering. IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje. Vol. 12. Num. 2, pp. 101-114. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/RITA.2017.2698719 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/109939 10.1109/RITA.2017.2698719 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License IEEE