“Elas nas exatas”: analisando uma estratégia contemporânea de incentivo à inserção de meninas na ciência

Abstract

The feminist struggle for gender equity and debates about low female representation in careers in the exact sciences are relevant discussions. These arguments are justified with data from higher education where the greatest expression in the number of women is in the areas related to care, for example Psychology, Nutrition, Social Work, Speech Therapy, Home Economics and Nursing; however, women are a minority in the areas of exact sciences, such as Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics and, especially in Physics. Considering the current scenario, we chose the program “Elas nas Exatas” as the object of analysis of this work in order to problematize the discourse network on gender and science in the program. To this end, this project is methodologically anchored in the Foucaultian perspective of discourse analysis. In the article, we focus our attention on the program notices, projects, website, videos available on youtube, facebook page and twitter. The contemplated projects cover several states and were submitted by different proponent profiles. The initiative's visibility strategies were online using a website, social networks and youtube. The editions Elas nas Exatas emerged with the objective of achieving gender equity and for that purpose they had partnerships and strategies seeking to change the current scientific context, which is still a historically male field. The realization of this research allowed us to observe that the public notices made it possible to carry out projects aimed at gender equality, breaking with sexist education and with gender stereotypes in the exact sciences and technologies.