Increasing the Participation of Women in Aerospace

The aerospace is not a gender-balanced sector, thus being a consequence - albeit not exclusively - of the existing gender stereotypes in education as such the factors that affect the professional career of women which may not be too apparent in childhood but may have effects in secondary school and university. There are several aspects that influence the participation of women in Aerospace. The implementation of interventions that could enable substantial and sustainable changes regarding the increase of women interest in the aerospace sector, improving, at the same time, the women’s self-confidence in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects, is needed.