GUEDES, R. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8579122211664275; GUEDES, Raquel da Silva.
Resumo:
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.