Actitudes de rol de género en estudiantes universitarios en la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Attitudes and beliefs about gender roles have been considered as part of the situations that favor the formation of dominant stereotypes that lead to situations of violence in vulnerable groups. In our study on Attitudes of gender role in university students in the city of Guayaquil whose objective was to determine the attitudes of the role of gender in university students in the city of Guayaquil. Descriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional and prospective type of study, with a simple random university population, obtaining 388 study subjects of both sexes. Technique: virtual survey. Instrument: Gender Role Attitudes Scale (EARG) with 20 indicators of egalitarian or sexist attitudes at the family, social and work level. Results: the mean age of the subjects was 22.89 years, 79% female, 21% male, the most sexist attitudes were found in the family dimension. Conclusion: We can conclude that there is sexism in the university students surveyed, finding that at a younger age there is more sexism.