Uso da produção científica de mulheres pelos programas de Ciência da Informação brasileiros: análise das bibliografias indicadas nos editais de seleção de mestrado

Abstract

Gender relations are the subject of discussions in the social spheres and studies in the scientific field for emphasizing the relations of inequality, the main factor in the exercise of disproportionate arbitrariness of the male gender to the female gender, structured and constructed formatting in the social body. In view of this reality and through changes in society that seem to evolve this ideal of domination of one gender over the other, the possibility of the persistence of this androcentric system is considered in fields judged as evolved and endowed with information, such as universities and their departments. This research seeks to understand the existence of this gender relationship in the area of Information Science practiced in Brazil, based on the assumption of the importance of highlighting the theme, revealing and also bringing reflection about the domination of positions and powers of the male gender in IC. As a problematic question of this research, we intend to know: How are female researchers in Information Science represented as authors in the bibliographies recommended in the master's selection notices of the Postgraduate Programs in Information Science in Brazil? To answer this question, we defined the following general objective: To analyze the participation of women researchers in the field of Information Science in Brazil, as authors of the bibliographies recommended in the selection notices for masters' degrees in Brazilian PPGCIs. Considering this objective, we propose the following specific objectives: to identify the post graduate programs in IC with academic master's degrees, which have exams and bibliographies suggested as a step for admission; to list the authorship and co authorship of the bibliographies analyzed, naming the researchers and classifying them according to their initial formation, current institution and nationality; to point out the themes of the bibliographies that have women as authors, by means of the titles of each scientific production. According to the methodological procedures, this is a research with a quantitative qualitative approach, of a descriptive bibliographical and documental character. Data collection focuses on the corpus formed by the selection notices for master's degree courses in the Brazilian PPGCIs and on the bibliographies contained therein. With the results obtained, it is possible to verify the superiority of bibliographies by male authors as indication for reading in the public announcements of master's degree courses in Information Science in Brazil, with this superiority being quantitatively significant and opposed to the affirmation that IC is a feminine area. Thus, the research concludes the need for PPGCIs to review the choices made for these calls, promoting greater attention to the distribution of these bibliographies by the gender of the authors, highlighting especially for new researchers in CI, the literatures and authors of important scientific contributions to the area.