UM PANORAMA DAS PESQUISAS CIENTÍFICAS NA ÁREA DE CIÊNCIA DA COMPUTAÇÃO: UMA PERSPECTIVA FEMININA

Abstract

Gender disproportionality in fields related to Information Technology is notorious. Even in a scenario of endeavor to value female models of successful computing, as women are minimal in the academic world. With historical reflections, occasionally also affects the development of scientific research in the area. Scientometrics is the field of knowledge capable of recognize indexes of intellectual production, besides contributing to the verification of gaps and research trends. In this context, it can even be used to characterize gender diversity among its scientists in computer science research (CSR). The present work was carried out in a study about the female presence in events of the Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society (CSBC), that is considered one of the major concerns of relevance in the country. Information were tracked by data scraping, covering the period from 2017 to 2019, presenting the following variables: name of the authors, title of the paper, year of publication and events. Based on the constructed base, the results indicate a predominance of the male public at CSBC events. However, when the female presence was evaluated using the published articles, as women are contained in almost 60% of the articles, even constituting only 31% of the quantitative by highlighting the relevance of the role of authors in the construction and scientific progress in computing.