Mapping and Importance of Projects for Gender Equity in Stem Education

Abstract

In this article, we mapped the projects covered in the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico [Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development] (CNPq) calls for Meninas nas Ciências Exatas, Engenharias e Computação [Girls in the Sciences, Engineering, and Computing] program, in 2013 and 2018, and we seek to understand, through interviews with five coordinators, their perceptions about the importance of projects. We identified the capillarity of projects in the country and increased female leadership in projects contemplated in 2018. We point to the social, educational and personal dimension of the projects, acting in areas of social vulnerability, training future teachers, and the university-school relationship, and for the incorporation of an intersectional feminist perspective in gender equity policies in science education.