Faculty perception about gender violence in universities

Abstract

Violence is manifested in a great number of social spaces, universities with all the actors that compose it do not escape from it, however the studies that are carried out have left aside, until now, the perspective of the faculty who are key elements for its understanding. The objective of this work is to know the perception of teachers regarding gender violence and their knowledge about the intervention mechanisms to prevent and address it within the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) of Tampico, Tamaulipas, in order to present updated data that can be used to carry out actions to make it visible and reduce it. Qualitative methodology with phenomenological design was used. The study involved the participation of professors working in several hei. In order to select the informants, we used intentional sampling and the semi-structured interview technique for data collection. By virtue of the above, it was observed that gender violence occurs frequently in the university environment due, in part, to the lack of attention and prevention strategies. It can be concluded that the faculty is an agent of change that provides valuable information that can contribute to the development of interventions that seek the welfare of the university community.