Introduction the Gender-Based Violence Practices at the Universidad de Oriente

Abstract

Introduction to the study on gender-based violence practices at the Universidad de Oriente, is a research work that aims to explore this sociocultural problem. As a result of the literature review, an insufficient theoretical and practical approach is diagnosed. The objective is identify the practices of gender-based violence in the institution, based on the study of the theoretical notions and criteria of the interviewees, to know the essentialities that typify it. The following data is obtained: scarce scientific materials on the subject in question, sufficient knowledge about gender-based violence, recognition of practices such as sexual harassment against women in undergraduate and postgraduate students, and ignorance of prevention protocols and attention to this problem. The methods of the theoretical level of the construction of scientific knowledge are used: analytical-synthetic, deductive-inductive, and hermeneutic. The qualitative methodology and the materialist dialectic paradigm are used. A sample of 10 students and 10 professors, between men and women, undergraduate and postgraduate, is randomly selected.