Action protocol to analyze preventive actions for gender violence in a public university

Abstract

Public Higher Education Institutions have developed actions to prevent gender violence. Few include an action protocol that could allow them to analyze the relevance and progress of the actions being implemented. The objective of this work is to show the usefulness of a protocol with four components: participation of educational authorities, gender awareness, institutionalization of the gender perspective,and interdisciplinary research with a gender perspective. To accomplish this, different qualitative and quantitative techniques were applied in a public university to generate data for each component. A documentary review of the institutional web page was also conducted. The information was analyzed with Atlas.ti, version 7.5.1, and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), version 21. The results show that the tested protocol allows for a comprehensive view of the actions carried out by the institution, identifying advancement and areas of opportunity in gender violence prevention, which in this case point to the need to reinforce actions within the proposed components.

Keywords

• university youth
• gender cross-cutting
• gender perspective institutionalization
• gender culture
• gender awareness