Analyzing the Gender Gap in Computing through the Thoughts of the Brazilian Community

摘要

During the Brazilian Computer Society Conference, we collected thoughts of fifty participants about the gender gap in computing related courses. Over the years, this concern has gained the attention of the academia. Since we conducted this study during the biggest conference of the computing community, we were able to hear the opinion of people from all regions of Brazil. In this study, we summarize our analysis over the interviews. We found that women and men share similar thoughts about what causes this phenomenon and why the presence of more women is important in this field.