A inser o das mulheres na ciência: narrativas de mulheres cientistas sobre a escolha profissional = The integration of women in science: scientist women discourses about their career choice

O artigo discute a inser o das mulheres na ciência a partir da análise de entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com mulheres cientistas atuantes em universidades federais e numa institui o de pesquisa do Rio Grande do Sul. No artigo, analisamos as justificativas para a escolha profissional, enfatizando as motiva es, as pessoas marcantes e os acontecimentos que possibilitaram essa decis o. Procuramos compreender como se dá a inser o das mulheres na ciência, construída sobre pilares androcêntricos e sexistas. Na análise, problematizamos os discursos e práticas sociais que estiveram/est o implicados na constitui o das entrevistadas, ensinando-lhes modos de ser e de agir como mulheres e de pensar e atuar com rela o à ciência.This paper discusses the integration of women in science, based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with scientist women working in federal universities and in a research institute in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. In the article, we analyze the reasons for choosing the scientific career, emphasizing the motivations, remarkable people and events that enabled this decision making. We seek to understand how women become included in the scientific milieu, built on androcentric and sexist pillars. In the analysis, we question the discourses and social practices that were and still are entailed by the respondents’ self-constitution, which teaches them ways of being and acting as women, and thinking and acting in relation to science.