The gender representations in university professors

Abstract

This article explores the gender representation in university professors from different academic programs based on the personal constructs that they use to categorize their students. For this purpose, individual interviews were conducted with professors who were asked to freely sort a set of cards containing the names of their students, using their own criteria for grouping the cards. After these criteria went through a content analysis, a matrix was constructed in order to analyze whether or not the different criteria were associated to different students according to their gender. The information was systematized and analyzed using a multidimensional scaling (SSA) giving evidence for the differentiation of the concepts that professor used depending on the gender of the student. The results are discussed based on the impact that gender representation can have in the processes of evaluation and orientation students receive from their professors.