Percepciones que tienen las y los estudiantes de noveno ciclo de la carrera de Ingeniería Civil de la Universidad de Cuenca, respecto a las personas LGBTI en el periodo Septiembre 2022-Febrero 2023

Abstract

The objective of the research work was to know the perceptions of the students who study Civil Engineering at the State University of Cuenca regarding LGBTI people in the period September 2022 - February 2023. Therefore, the perspectives of knowledge, perceptions, attitudes and practices were taken in order to perform the respective analysis of results. Thus, the research approach was bimodal based on a study with a predominance of the qualitative approach, where the identification of social and gender knowledge was sought, so an interview was applied to the student population, determined by five men and five women, resulting in 10 semi-structured interviews to a sample of 10 students under criteria of sex and level of education. It is concluded that the attitudes of the students of the Civil Engineering career is to act with respect and normality before a person of this community, since they consider that there is complete freedom for someone to identify with the sexual orientation of their choice. However, in relation to their perceptions about the fulfillment of their rights, access to spaces, they state that the current social structure, despite the advances in rights issues, still persist situations of violation of rights related to processes of discrimination, exclusion that members of this community live and that are the result of an androcentric and patriarchal social structure that reproduces sexist manifestations linked to sexual dichotomism.