Women’s Empowerment Initiatives
in Brazilian Universities: Cases
of Extension Programs to Promote
Sustainable Development
Carla Patricia Finatto, Camilla Gomes da Silva, Gabriela Carpejani,
and José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra
1 Introduction
According to the United Nations (2019), women represent only 35% of students
in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. According to
data from the survey conducted by the Open Box of Science (2020), in Brazil, there
are less than 77.8 million researchers in the five largest areas of knowledge. These
areas being: linguistics, letters and arts; Engineering; applied social sciences; exact
Sciences; and health sciences. Among the researchers studied, 59.69% are men and
40.3% are women. In the exact sciences, women represent only 31% of the total
researchers with a doctorate. In engineering, representativeness is even lower: 26%.
In the health area, women are the majority. However, in this area, surgeons are
predominantly male.
According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
(2018a), since the 1990s, women have predominated in participation in education
at all levels. However, in 2018, only 16.9% of women aged 25 or over had a higher
education degree, even higher than the percentage of men, this being 13.5%.
C. P. Finatto (B) · C. G. da Silva · G. Carpejani · J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
Center for Sustainable Development (Greens), University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL),
Araranguá, Brazil
e-mail: carlapatriciafinatto@gmail.com
C. G. da Silva
e-mail: camila2527@gmail.com
G. Carpejani
e-mail: gabrielacpj@yahoo.com.br
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
e-mail: baltazar.guerra@unisul.br
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_28
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in Brazilian Universities: Cases
of Extension Programs to Promote
Sustainable Development
Carla Patricia Finatto, Camilla Gomes da Silva, Gabriela Carpejani,
and José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra
1 Introduction
According to the United Nations (2019), women represent only 35% of students
in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. According to
data from the survey conducted by the Open Box of Science (2020), in Brazil, there
are less than 77.8 million researchers in the five largest areas of knowledge. These
areas being: linguistics, letters and arts; Engineering; applied social sciences; exact
Sciences; and health sciences. Among the researchers studied, 59.69% are men and
40.3% are women. In the exact sciences, women represent only 31% of the total
researchers with a doctorate. In engineering, representativeness is even lower: 26%.
In the health area, women are the majority. However, in this area, surgeons are
predominantly male.
According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
(2018a), since the 1990s, women have predominated in participation in education
at all levels. However, in 2018, only 16.9% of women aged 25 or over had a higher
education degree, even higher than the percentage of men, this being 13.5%.
C. P. Finatto (B) · C. G. da Silva · G. Carpejani · J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
Center for Sustainable Development (Greens), University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNISUL),
Araranguá, Brazil
e-mail: carlapatriciafinatto@gmail.com
C. G. da Silva
e-mail: camila2527@gmail.com
G. Carpejani
e-mail: gabrielacpj@yahoo.com.br
J. B. S. O. de Andrade Guerra
e-mail: baltazar.guerra@unisul.br
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_28
435