Abstract

MORENO CUBILLOS, Carmen Leonor; SEPULVEDA GALLEGO, Luz Elena  and  RESTREPO RENDON, Luisa Fernanda. DISCRIMINATION AND GENDER VIOLENCE AT UNIVERSIDAD DE CALDAS. Hacia promoc. Salud [online]. 2012, vol.17, n.1, pp.59-76. ISSN 0121-7577.

Objective: the aim of this study was to characterize and evidence acts of discrimination and gender violence occurring among the members (professors, students, and administrative staff). of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Universidad de Caldas, Colombia Materials and Methods: this is a descriptive, prospective and cross-sectional study, conducted between the second semester of 2010 and the first semester of 2011, with a primary source of information and sample randomly selected. Results: the questionnaire was completed by 292 students, 88 professors and 18 administrative employees. It was found that 64.6% of the population had been a victim in one of the studied events: discrimination because of physical appearance, origin, gender, social-economic status, sexual orientation and religion; verbal, physical and psychological aggression; abuse of authority; harassment in the workplace; threat or intimidation; sanction or punishment; blackmail; teasing, compliments, or obscene gestures; exclusion; sexual harassment and rape. 50% of the employees referred the antecedent of at least one of these facts, as well as 40.9% of professors and 72.6% of students. The types of violence reported more frequently by the University community in general were: abuse of authority (36.9%), teasing, gestures or obscene compliments (26.9%), verbal aggression (23.4%), psychological aggression (22.1%) and discrimination because of physical appearance (12.3%). Conclusion: the results demonstrate the existence of the studied problem within the community of the Faculty of Health Sciences and support the need for interventions from the University welfare and authorities view points.

Keywords : Discrimination; violence; medicine; nursery; education.

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