The objective of this paper is to analyze the presence of women in natural sciences in its historical, social and epistemological aspects, with the objective of clarifying the ways in which this presence occurs. An analysis of a research carried out with university students of a course of physics about the relation between women and science is made. Some pedagogical practices and strategies of scientific education that better adapt to the women style are also analyzed in order to allow teachers of natural sciences to act as agents of change so that they can attract a greater number of women to this knowledge field.
history of science; woman; physics; sexism.