Women in Physics: Experiences of Professors and Students’ in Higher Education^*

Abstract

This paper is based on research, funded by CNPq, which examines the perceptions and experiences of female professors and students about gender relations in academic life in traditionally masculine fields, with a focus on physics. The research field is a federal university in Brazil’s Northeast and the methodological procedures involved interviews, after mapping the distribution of professors and students by sex. The results show women’s difficulties, as professors and students, in being included in the field.

Gender; Higher Education; Physics; Female Professors; Female Students