Senso de pertencimento das mulheres em projetos de software
Mariana Salamoni Francisco, Reginaldo Ré, Igor Wiese, Marco Aurélio Graciotto Silva · Anais do Computer on the Beach · 2023
Background: Gender diversity is an important feature for softwaredevelopment. Studies show that teams with more diversity are moreproductive, too. Objective: This study is a systematic review thatanalyzes women’s motivations to contribute to software development,focusing on a sense of belonging. Method: A protocol wasestablished and the works retrieved by the applied search string.It was analyzed according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria.Results: The results showed that the main factors that motivatewomen to contribute to software projects are Kinship, Career andLearning. However, the sense of belonging, related to the termKinship, was more important in the analysis of groups composedonly of women, compared to heterogeneous groups. Conclusions:Thus, it was found that there are differences in motivations betweengenders, and the sense of belonging is more relevant forwomen than for men. Therefore, to increase diversity in softwareprojects, an important factor to be improved is the belonging of thecontributors.