Discrimination and gender violence at the University. Results of a survey of the student body of the Faculty of Psychology of the National University of Mar del Plata

Abstract

In this article we analyze the results of a survey on discrimination and gender violence administered to students of the Faculty of Psychology of the National University of Mar del Plata. Our two main objectives are, first, to explain the theoretical and methodological decisions with which we elaborated the survey. Secondly, to present the results obtained in the questions structured in two different sections taking into account the moral issues related to what is considered violence and the dimension of coercion. On the one hand, the questions referring to situations of discrimination and harassment. On the other hand, those referring to situations of sexual and physical harassment and violence at the university. In both sections we asked how it affected them and what they did in response to the situation.  Finally, we will present the main conclusions in which we will argue that most students experience situations of discrimination. Faced with these situations, they prefer to resort to specific institutional instances. They choose to make administrative complaints and not public exposures on social networks. Those who claim to have experienced situations are LGTTBIQ+ students and cis women and men. However, only cis women and LGTTBIQ+ students experienced them first-hand and claim to have felt affected.