Herdeiras de Ada Lovelace: iniciativas para fomentar a participação feminina na computação no Brasil e no mundo

Abstract

The proposal is the study of initiatives created to increase the female participation and representation in courses e job market of Computer Science, which demands more and more qualified work force. This paper bases itself in empirical evidences and theories about gender issues related to social cultural constructions, as we see in Simone de Beauvoir and Pierre Bourdieu, criation of estereotypes, in Golnessa Galyani Moghaddam and Nathan Esmenger, and interaction with Information and Communication Technologies, in Natasha Primo. It was also collected historical informations about women that had indispensable participation in the development of computer programming, and data about initiatives, on-line and physical, created in the last decades to teach and motivate girls and women to learn how to code. It’s worth to point the collaboration and recognition of “we” women, values presente in these organizations and communities. Futher more, it was carried out interviews with women representing some of the initiatives, to analyze the diversity of perspectives and motivations in order to increase the female representation in computer coding.