AUTHOR=González-Gallego Sofía , Hernández-Pérez Mariana , Alonso-Sánchez José A. , Hernández-Castellano Pedro M. , Quevedo-Gutiérrez Eduardo G. TITLE=A critical examination of the underlying causes of the gender gap in STEM and the influence of computational thinking projects applied in secondary school on STEM Higher Education JOURNAL=Frontiers in Education VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2025 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2025.1537040 DOI=10.3389/feduc.2025.1537040 ISSN=2504-284X