Actitud hacia la igualdad de género de los estudiantes de enfermería en una Universidad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Introduction: Gender equality in addition to being a human being's right constitutes one of the fundamental pillars for building a society with full equityin the social, political and cultural aspects. Objective: To determine the attitude of UCSG nursing students towards gender equality. Population and sample: 154 university students who meet the inclusion criteria. Instrument: Virtual survey, Questionnaire of questions Likert scale of attitudes by García Pérez. Result: The university students who participated in the study in relationto average age was 23 years old, 73.5% were women and 26.3% were men, of which 79.2% were single. Applying the questionnaire of questions with the Likert scale of attitudes of García Pérez, it was determined that students present a degree of sensitivity to the topic of gender equality and that the menpresent less sensitivity than women. Conclusion: In the present study it was determined that there is a global adaptive attitude in the three scales (sociocultural, relational and personal); however, sexist attitudes are presented especially in the relational level in reference to gender roles, gender violence, leadership and affectivity, while in the sociocultural level there are adaptive attitudes and in the personal level there are egalitarian attitudes.