Percepciones sobre el concepto “nuevas masculinidades” en estudiantes de tercero de bachillerato: estudio de caso Unidad Educativa Guillermo Mensi

Abstract

This research is focused on contributing to improve equal gender relationships among the students of the Guillermo Mensi School, through the application of an educational workshop about "new masculinities or diverse masculinities", this with the purpose of being used as strategy to prevent gender violence. This paper starts from the main theoretical concepts about feminism, masculinity, hegemonic masculinity, gender and sex, gender roles and violence. The methodology used is qualitative and emphasizes participatory action research. It was carried out in two moments. The first one with the literature review and the second one with field research, which required the application of a Likert scale (diagnosis and verification) survey to know the perceptions and the level of knowledge that students have about “new masculinities”. Subsequently, an educational awareness workshop was held with the aim of preventing and eradicating gender violence through "new masculinities" as an instrument to promote equal gender relationship among students of this institution and the sociality. The results obtained indicate that there is a certain lack of knowledge about the social concept "new masculinities or diverse masculinities", a problem that is reflected in the lack of educational strategies on this subject. Hence the importance of generating proposals that contribute to improving equal gender relationship to build more just, equitable, inclusive, and equal opportunities societies. In addition, these must be focused on preventing or raising awareness on gender violence, since nowadays, it is one of the greatest needs due to the existing inequality between women and men, thus, reducing gender stereotypes, sexist violence, and other signs of violence.