Coding Bootcamps for Female Digital Employment : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Argentina and Colombia
The increase in female labor force participation is among the most salient economic and social transformations in the world over the last fifty years, and Latin America is no exception. In this regard, the gender gap in educational attainment has n...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/320971616762538651/Coding-Bootcamps-for-Female-Digital-Employment-Evidence-from-a-Randomized-Control-Trial-in-Argentina-and-Colombia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35374 |
| Summary: | The increase in female labor force
participation is among the most salient economic and social
transformations in the world over the last fifty years, and
Latin America is no exception. In this regard, the gender
gap in educational attainment has not only narrowed, but it
has reversed itself in most countries of the region. Despite
this, two important gaps remain. First, wages of female
workers are, on average, thirty percent lower than those of
males. Second, a high degree of occupational and educational
segregation remains, with men and women being concentrated
in different fields of occupations and study. This study
pilots a comprehensive female-targeted computer programming
training (bootcamp) in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Bogotá,
Colombia. Bootcamps have become a policy instrument to
tackle the following two objectives. First, they provide
training on coding skills at a time when the rapid spread of
new digital technologies is increasing demand for such
skills. Second, when training on coding skills is
specifically targeted toward women, it reduces the gender
gap in terms of access to effective training on coding skills. |
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