ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE FEMININE PARTICIPATION IN THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS COURSE OF THE FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF GOIÁS CÂMPUS LUZIÂNIA *1 Ernane Rosa Martins and 2 Luis Manuel Borges Gouveia 1 Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Goiás, Brazil 2 University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT This article presents an analysis of the participation of women in the course of Information Systems (IS) of the Federal Institute of Goiás (FIG) Câmpus Luziânia. Through a qualitative and quantitative exploratory case study, the research contemplated semi-structured interviews, aiming to contribute to the contextualization of the relationship between women and the Information Technology (IT) area. As a result, there were found minor participation of women in the course analyzed and the need to promote actions that could help attract and retain women in this field, such as creation of specific events for women in the field of informatics and dissemination of examples of women in this context. Copyright © 2018, Ernane Rosa Martins and Luis Manuel Borges Gouveia. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. INTRODUCTION It is notorious that the level of education of women is increasing and making possible the expansion of female participation in the field of science. However, areas such as computing and technology show a decrease in women's inputs, being treated as "male" areas (LIMA, 2013). In computer science courses, the number of women entering undergraduates dropped from 30% to between 5% and 10%, and only 19% of women entering the university chose technology courses (COELHO, 2013). Several national and international papers have been the subject of discussions about female participation in the area of computing and computing (Savoy, 2012). Among the national studies on the female presence in courses and in the professional market of the Computing and Technologies areas, it is important to highlight the studies of: Frigo et al. (2013), Medeiros (2005), Natansohn et al. (2011), Leta (2003) and Mendes and Figueiredo (2015), who help to find answers to the problems of female participation in these areas. Therefore, the objective of this work is to analyze the participation of women in the Information Systems (IS) course at the Federal Institute of Goiás (IFG) Câmpus Luziânia. *Corresponding author: Ernane Rosa Martins, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Goiás, Brazil. Through a qualitative and quantitative exploratory case study, the research included semi-structured interviews, aiming to contribute to contextualizing the relationship of women in the Information Technology (IT) scenario. This article is structured in five sections. In this section we present, besides the introduction, the definition of the research problem, the objective, the justification and importance of the study and the structure of the present research. Section 2 brings the theoretical framework, with the formation of a conceptual and theoretical basis, which provide support for the development of this study. Section 3 presents the method used and the techniques and methodological procedures used. Section 4 describes the results obtained in the research and discussion. Finally, section 5 retakes the purpose of the article, how it was achieved, and suggestions for future research. Theoretical Reference Women face enormous resistance related to the insertion and permanence in several sectors, mainly in the area of IT. According to data from the Women in Tech event, conducted by CA Technologies, only 8% of developers worldwide and 11% of executives in technology companies in Silicon Valley are women. The Independent Work and Enterprise Report, prepared by the Workana freelance work platform, concluded that the IT area as a whole has only 6% of women in our ISSN: 2230-9926 International Journal of Development Research Vol. 08, Issue, 10, pp. 23685-23687, October, 2018 Article History: Received 08 th July, 2018 Received in revised form 04 th August, 2018 Accepted 21 st September, 2018 Published online 30 th October, 2018 Available online at http://www.journalijdr.com Key Words: Women; Empowerment; Information Technology. ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Citation: Ernane Rosa Martins and Luis Manuel Borges Gouveia. 2018. “Feminine participation in the information systems course of the federal institute of Goiás Câmpus Luziânia”, International Journal of Development Research, 8, (10), 23685-23687.