Cernadas García, EvaAguayo Lorenzo, EvaFernández Delgado, ManuelCalvo Iglesias, Encina2025-06-202025-06-202025-06-17Cernadas, Eva, Eva Aguayo, Manuel Fernández-Delgado, and Encina Calvo-Iglesias. 2025. STEM, a Non-Place for Women? Evidences and Transformative Initiatives. Social Sciences 14: 384. https://doi.org/10.3390/ socsci14060384https://hdl.handle.net/10347/42207Numerous studies, diagnoses, and projects have been carried out in recent years to analyze the low female presence in STEM studies. However, progress has been limited, and the female presence is still low in certain degrees related to information and communication technologies, physics, and engineering. Many of the actions have been aimed at attracting women to these fields, but few have tried to change the culture of these disciplines, which make them a non-place for women. This paper analyses the measures carried out in Spanish public universities, and specifically at the University of Santiago de Compostela, to contribute to making these disciplines a place for women. Computer engineering workshops for primary and secondary education are proposed, incorporating a gender perspective. These transformative activities were highly valuated and welcomed by non-university teachers. The ideas inspiring these initiatives might help both to attract girls to STEM degrees and to generate gender equality environments, in order to change the androcentric culture of this field.eng© 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licenseAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Gender equalityGender biasGender gapSTEMICTArtificial IntelligenceEducationComputational thinkingjournal article10.3390/socsci140603842076-0760open access