Lugar de mulher é na ciência: o que dizem os estudantes do Colégio Estadual Engenheiro Benjamim José Almeida

Abstract

This study aimed to associate science education from the perspective of Human Rights, through practices that favors the empowerment of females. This association made through the project “young girls doing exact science” that was to encourage high school students to take an interest in exact sciences, as research showed a disparate difference in the number of women in the area of exact sciences in relation to men. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the high school students' conceptions of research of the Colégio Estadual Benjamim José de Almeida about the presence of women in science. This research stems from the understanding of the existence of a social problem - the power asymmetries involving gender issues. As objective of action, sought to deconstruct pre-established concepts socially from an educational workshop called "woman's place is in Science". We can classify the research as qualitative, since obtaining data was descriptively by the direct and interactive contact between the researcher and the object of study. Thus, the process of research revealed that there are students speak both males and females that kept the macho relations, just as there are students of both sexes who subvert these relationships.