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Laws are increasingly demanding universities to include the gender dimension in teaching and curricula, as a part of a wider strategy that seeks to make a step forward towards real gender equality. Many universities have started to work on it the last years, normally as a part of their Gender Equality Plans. Despite the efforts made for offering and disseminating tools and guidelines, the reality is that few people know how to include the gender dimension in their teaching; the majority are not aware or are convinced that this is not possible in their courses, especially in subjects belonging to the science, technology, engineering and maths field. In this paper we propose some examples for the operations management field that, together with the existing guides and tools, can help unexperienced people to start the inclusion of the gender dimension in their teaching.
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The “Industrial Engineering” included in the title of this guide is a translation of the Spanish “Ingeniería Industrial”, which covers different fields of engineering (electrical, mechanical, electronics, etc.).
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Lusa, A., Peña, M., de Les Valls, E.M., Olmedo-Torre, N. (2024). Including Gender Dimension in the Contents of Operations Management Teaching. In: Bautista-Valhondo, J., Mateo-Doll, M., Lusa, A., Pastor-Moreno, R. (eds) Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management (ICIEIM) – XXVII Congreso de Ingeniería de Organización (CIO2023). CIO 2023. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 206. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57996-7_60
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