“Você vai fazer engenharia, menina?”- as mulheres na ciência e tecnologia: uma história a ser escrita.

Abstract

Women's history in Science and Technology was limited due to circumstantial factors that delimit the space as predominantly male, so that today the presence of women in this area of knowledge is still small. For centuries women's struggle for civil and educational rights was fierce, with several historical events in which women were seeking training opportunities and the struggle of the working places in the market, either because they had the ideal of gender equality is because it did not accept the speech of the woman's capacity would be less than man. This research work has the problem to be analyzed the presence of women in engineering degree courses. The general objective is to analyze the discursive constructions that limited the living spaces of women, causing social and gender differences, and specifically investigate women's insertion in Science and Technology, and the main difficulties faced by them. For this we used statistical data transmitted by the Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination (CAPES) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq); and former students to reports, former teachers, teachers, former teachers and teachers of Paraíba Polytechnic School of the Federal University of Paraíba and the Federal University of Campina Grande. Were also used articles, Master's dissertations, PhD theses, and publications on the subject gender, gender issues in science and women in science and technology found in internet sites. The reports were analyzed using the methodology of Oral History, and all information and literature analyzed from the theoretical reference thinker Michel Foucault. As a result of the research, we found the permanence of cultural practices that discourage women from embarking on science and technology; and the speech of permanence that naturalizes the field of science and technology as eminently masculine. So, there is a contribution to the naturalization of social roles, and the distancing of women of that. There are many challenges to women's inclusion in this area, so we see that women have used tactics of scams to be able to overcome limitations and make contributions to the progress of science and technology.