Sex Role Ideology of Students in a Colombian Engineering Faculty

This paper examined the perceptions of students from different engineering programs at a private university in Cartagena de Indias (N = 243) with the aim of clearly identifying the profile of an engineer in training with a traditionalist ideology of sex roles, because historically this field of educ...

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Autores:
Vázquez-Miraz, Pedro
Medina Reyes, María Fernanda
Pastrana Quintana, Camilo Andrés
Rincón Socha, María Eugenia
Tipo de recurso:
Fecha de publicación:
2022
Institución:
Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Repositorio:
Repositorio Institucional UTB
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.utb.edu.co:20.500.12585/11008
Acceso en línea:
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12585/11008
https://doi.org/10.17583/MCS.2022.8345
Palabra clave:
Gender ideology
Sexism
University
Adolescence
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Summary:This paper examined the perceptions of students from different engineering programs at a private university in Cartagena de Indias (N = 243) with the aim of clearly identifying the profile of an engineer in training with a traditionalist ideology of sex roles, because historically this field of education has been assumed as something masculine. By means of a descriptive cross-sectional study and based on the predictor variables sex, age and academic program, significant differences were identified in the first and second variables (more sexist values in men and older people), and by introducing a univariate calculation, the model incorporating the three variables was also significant. Thus, it has been recognised that certain careers (such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering) have consistently presented different values associated with a conservative view of men's and women's roles