Women on alert for gender violence in public spaces. Comparison of three public higher education schools in Mexico
Abstract
Street sexual harassment is a type of gender violence that highlights inequalities between women and men, and male domination in public spaces. The low sense of insecurity, coupled with insufficient trust in reporting processes and impunity, keeps women and girls in constant fear in public spaces, and blocks their right to mobility and well-being. The objective of this article is to study the perceptions of university students regarding severe manifestations and sexual harassment behaviors that generate fear and insecurity, in order to identify the scenarios of gender violence that female students face. It is a quantitative cross-sectional study with a convenience sample of 1,656 female students from three public higher education schools in Mexico. It was found that there is a constant identification of harassers and sexual harassers in universities. Some factors experienced by female university students who have been victims of severe behaviors that put them at risk were identified, as well as factors in common among young women that reinforce their avoidance strategies. It is concluded that it is necessary the intervention of governments and universities with affirmative actions, and with police forces sensitive to the gender perspective, within the framework of the declarations of alerts of gender violence against women.
Downloads
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
In order to promote the development and dissemination of research in education in Latin America, the Ibero-American Journal for Educational Research and Development (RIDE) adhered to the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which is why it is identified as a Open access publication. This means that any user can read the complete text of the articles, print them, download them, copy them, link them, distribute them and use the contents for other purposes. Creative Cummons licenses allow users to specify the rights to use an open access journal available on the Internet in such a way that users know the rules of publication. Authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions: Authors they keep the author's rights and give the magazine the right of the first publication, with the work registered with the attribution license of Creative Commons, which allows third parties to use the published material whenever they mention the authorship of the work and the first publication in this The authors can make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (eg, include it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book) as long as they clearly indicate that The work was published for the first time in this magazine. Authors are allowed and recommended to publish their work. low on the Internet (for example on institutional or personal pages) before and during the review and publication process, as it can lead to productive exchanges and to a greater and faster dissemination of the published work
