@Article{FelizardoRaMeSoViNa:2021:SyMaSt,
               author = "Felizardo, Katia Romero and Ramos, Amanda M{\"o}hring and Melo, 
                         Cl{\'a}udia de O. and Souza, {\'E}rica Ferreira de and 
                         Vijaykumar, Nandamudi Lankalapalli and Nakagawa, Elisa Yumi",
          affiliation = "{Universidade Tecnol{\'o}gica Federal do Paran{\'a} (UTFPR)} and 
                         {Universidade Tecnol{\'o}gica Federal do Paran{\'a} (UTFPR)} and 
                         {International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)} and {Universidade 
                         Tecnol{\'o}gica Federal do Paran{\'a} (UTFPR)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Universidade de 
                         S{\~a}o Paulo (USP)}",
                title = "Global and Latin American female participation in evidence-based 
                         software engineering: a systematic mapping study",
              journal = "Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society",
                 year = "2021",
               volume = "27",
               number = "1",
                pages = "e6",
                month = "Dec.",
             keywords = "Secondary study, Systematic mapping, Women in computing.",
             abstract = "Context: While the digital economy requires a new generation of 
                         technology for scientists and practitioners, the software 
                         engineering (SE) field faces a gender crisis. SE research is a 
                         global enterprise that requires the participation of both genders 
                         for the advancement of science and evidence-based practice. 
                         However, women across the world tend to be significantly 
                         underrepresented in such research, receiving less funding and less 
                         participation, frequently, than men as authors in research 
                         publications. Data about this phenomenon is still sparse and 
                         incomplete; particularly in evidence-based software engineering 
                         (EBSE), there are no studies that analyze the participation of 
                         women in this research area. Objective: The objective of this work 
                         is to present the results of a systematic mapping study (SM) 
                         conducted to collect and evaluate evidence on female researchers 
                         who have contributed to the area of EBSE. Method: Our SM was 
                         performed by manually searching studies in the major conferences 
                         and journals of EBSE. We identified 981 studies and 183 were 
                         authored/co-authored by women and, therefore, included. Results: 
                         Contributions from women in secondary studies have globally 
                         increased over the years, but it is still concentrated in European 
                         countries. Additionally, collaboration among research groups is 
                         still fragile, based on a few women as a bridge. Latin American 
                         researchers contribute a great deal to the field, despite they do 
                         not collaborate as much within their region. Conclusions: The 
                         findings from this study are expected to be aggregated to the 
                         existing knowledge with respect to womens contribution to the EBSE 
                         area. We expect that our results bring up a reflection on the 
                         gender issue and motivate actions and policies to attract female 
                         researchers to this area.",
                  doi = "10.1186/s13173-021-00109-7",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13173-021-00109-7",
                 issn = "0104-6500",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "felizardo_global.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "04 jun. 2024"
}