Women have always fought for their place in the Information Technologyarea’s job market. This paper presents a survey conductedwith the male gender of different IT organizations from the southof Brazil. The survey aims to identify their perceptions about genderinequality, the valuing, treatment, opportunities, barriers anddiscrimination, and/or prejudice women suffer in the workplace.The results indicate that 45% of participants consider women in ITcompanies most frequently face those social barriers, and only 19%witnessed some prejudice and/or discrimination.
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