“Come clear the blackboard!” Women in the university

Abstract

Notwithstanding the considerable numeric presence of women in higher education, discrimination against them is common currency. The information obtained from focus groups with students attending three faculties of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) shows that female students face an environment in which multiple forms of contempt against women are expressed; such an environment is the result of a binary and hierarchical understanding of the differences between men and women.