Gender perspective mainstreaming in postgraduate in Zacatecas-México: perception of NRS female researchers

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the process of mainstreaming the gender perspective in the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, based upon the case of the Academic Unit of Higher Teaching, which encompasses four postgraduate programs in education. The case study methodology was applied, using two techniques for collecting information: a survey and documentary review. A questionnaire with a Likert-type scale was applied, the sample was made up of 12 researchers from this unit who have the SNI distinction, and administrative documentation was analyzed applying a qualitative procedure. As results, it was found that the majority of the participants consider that it is important to mainstream this perspective in the university environment, but not all of them apply it in their teaching and research activities. One of the areas of improvement that was detected was the communication of institutional activities related to this topic and the invitation to researchers to participate in the creation of institutional policies and protocols on this matter. Through documentary analysis, signs of transversalization were found in the areas of research and teaching, mainly in one of the master's programs.  It is concluded that the mainstreaming of the gender perspective in this unit, and in general in the university, is in progress, and that greater dissemination of institutional policies with a gender perspective, as well as the involvement of SNI researchers, is required to ensure that they are recognized as key agents in this process.