The e-makumeak group works collecting and disseminating information on the situation of women in Computer Engineering.

The group that emerged in 2000 arose mainly from the academics of the discipline, realizing that the percentage of women in computer studies was decreasing, at the same time increasing in the rest of engineering. The group works in three types of activities:

The name e-makumeak is a game of letters. On the one hand, women in Basque are called emakumeak, and on the other hand expressions such as e-mail or e-commerce have been used to provide a label related to electronic, Internet. From the mixture of both ideas emerges e-makumeak, which could be similar to using e-woman in Spanish, e-muller in Galician, or e-dona in Catalan.

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