A participação da mulher em uma empresa de tecnologia da informação

Abstract

Currently, technology is quite advanced, and, thus, Information Technology (IT) commands the informational system of organizations worldwide. Within this bias, this study aimed to investigate the main difficulties experienced by women in their professional work in the Information Technology sector. The methodology adopted a descriptive and qualitative research, considering the contribution of authors such as Porter (1997), Tapscott (1997), Lévy (1999), Lima (2013), Nunes et al., (2015), Souza (2017) ), Oliveira, Mello and Rigolin (2020), Ramos (2020), among others, with extensive knowledge about the subject in question, in addition to an applied research through a form on the Google Forms platform released by WhatsApp, in order to collect the information necessary for the problem and object of the referred study. Therefore, the target audience of the survey was composed only of women who work in the IT labor market of the company Gympass, which covers several markets in North America, Latin America and Europe and which has become the largest and most perfect corporate platform in the world. The data collection instrument used a structured questionnaire, with 24 open and closed questions divided into six categories applied to a group of 33 women aged from twenty years old who answered the questionnaire available on the Google Forms platform. The data obtained were analyzed through graphs, whose results showed that women are embracing the technology market with determination, although the difficulties experienced by women when entering the IT area are extensive, such as a predominantly male environment, salary difference, low wages, lack of credibility in women's work, lack of opportunity, in addition to the main factors that hinder the permanence and rise of women in the IT field, which involves lack of financial resources, lack of family support, predominantly male environment, among others.