Abstract

SILVA, Fabiane Ferreira da  and  RIBEIRO, Paula Regina Costa. A inserção das mulheres na ciência: narrativas de mulheres cientistas sobre a escolha profissional. Linhas Críticas [online]. 2012, vol.18, n.35, pp.171-191. ISSN 1981-0431.

This paper discusses the integration of women in science, based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with scientist women working in federal universities and in a research institute in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. In the article, we analyze the reasons for choosing the scientific career, emphasizing the motivations, remarkable people and events that enabled this decision making. We seek to understand how women become included in the scientific milieu, built on androcentric and sexist pillars. In the analysis, we question the discourses and social practices that were and still are entailed by the respondents’ self-constitution, which teaches them ways of being and acting as women, and thinking and acting in relation to science.

Keywords : Science; Women; Gender; Career Choice; Discourses.

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