Gender Stereotypes within the University. Does Sexism Determine the Choice of Degree amongst University Students?

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León-Ramírez, Beatriz;
Sanvicén, Paquita;
Molina, Fidel;
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(2018)
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Gender Stereotypes within the University. Does Sexism Determine the Choice of Degree amongst University Students?.
Revista Española de Sociología, 2018, núm. 27, p. 433-449.
https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2018.20.
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Nowadays gender-based violence has not only
grown but it has become increasingly evident in
gender stereotypes upheld by younger people. Universal
education is necessary to eradicate these
stereotypes in university classrooms.
The aim of this work is to find if a relationship exists
between sexism and the choice of degree among university
students, and if this relates to national culture.
We applied the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (Expósito,
Moya and Glick, 1998 and the Dating Violence Questionnaire
by Rodríguez-Franco et al., 2007) to 1,196
university students. The results show that there is a
relationship between sexism and the student’s choice
of degree course and, particularly, that there is more
sexism in technical degrees than in humanities degrees.
The cultural ideology is similar between Mexico
and Catalonia and only varies in its intensity. It concludes
that gender equality education is urgently needed
as a general course in technical degrees.