Comparative Diagnosis of Gender Violence at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACH)

The objective of this research focused on carrying out a comparative longitudinal self-diagnosis (2014, 2021) on equity and gender violence at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACH), evaluating and comparing the degree of violence (psychological, physical, patrimonial, economic and sexual), in the community, institutional, educational/labor and family areas. The nature of the research was quantitative, empirical, applied, non-experimental, longitudinal and descriptive. The method was based on two random surveys carried out, the first in 2014, the second in 2021. The research instrument was a questionnaire called: behaviors, attitudes and thoughts towards equity and gender violence (CCAPHEyVG), which was subjected to the Cronbach’s Alpha test, obtaining the result of 0.81. The population of interest was the university community. The sample frame was 32,005. Proportional stratified probabilistic sampling was considered. The second survey was applied to a sample of 2484, including administrative workers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and the teaching staff of each of the 15 academic units of the UACH. The objectives set were met and the level of violence was found to be high in all areas, although in the institutional area, comparatively, improvement in perception was observed: in the 2021 survey, the levels of psychological violence were 36%, the patrimonial level of 28% and the economic one of 42%; In the educational/labor area, when comparing results, the perception of the level of violence increased, psychological violence in 2021 was 42.1%, physical violence was 5.1%, patrimonial violence 24.8% and sexual violence 15.5%.