Evaluación de actitudes feministas y machistas en docentes y estudiantes de Magisterio

Resumen

The purpose of this study was to analyze the reflections regarding feminist and sexist behavior between the teachers of Early Childhood and Primary Education (teachers in educational centers and university professors) and students. The sample consisted of 309 participants who responded to an online survey that contained two qualitative questions in which they had to write a situation in which they had behaved as feminists or machistas. The data obtained were reviewed to extract, from the given situations, the main thematic units. After the extraction of the topics, the evaluators jointly discussed the distribution of the same. Subsequently, Cohen's Kappa index was used to know the inter-judge agreement and the values 0.78 and 0.74 were obtained. Specifically, the themes that emerge are: defense of equality, activism, social conscience, work environment, teaching / inclusive language, private sphere (home-family) and feminist and sexist self-consciousness. The most widely addressed sub-topic has been that of social conscience, that is, to denounce or demonstrate rejection of sexist behavior. There are several participants who recognize that despite being considered feminists, they have macho attitudes because living in a heteropatriarchal society and an androcentric culture is inevitable. There were differences in the themes according to groups. Specifically, in the student body there is a topic that is not present in the other groups: feminist self-consciousness. Regarding the university teaching staff, research and presentations from a gender perspective stand out and in teachers of educational centers there are a greater number of situations related to their teaching practice and inclusive language. In short, each of the particularities found according to the group, fits with the generational cohort of which they are a part and with their occupation