Feminine participation in the information systems course of the federal institute of goiás câmpus luziânia
International Journal of Development Research
Feminine participation in the information systems course of the federal institute of goiás câmpus luziânia
Received 08th July, 2018; Received in revised form 04th August, 2018; Accepted 21st September, 2018; Published online 30th October, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Ernane Rosa Martins and Luis Manuel Borges Gouveia. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article presents an analysis of the participation of women in the course of Information Systems (IS) of the Federal Institute of Goiás (FIG) Câmpus Luziânia. Through a qualitative and quantitative exploratory case study, the research contemplated semi-structured interviews, aiming to contribute to the contextualization of the relationship between women and the Information Technology (IT) area. As a result, there were found minor participation of women in the course analyzed and the need to promote actions that could help attract and retain women in this field, such as creation of specific events for women in the field of informatics and dissemination of examples of women in this context.
