Research of attitudes toward gender equality in the system of higher education

Abstract

The research presented here is a part of an ongoing and a more extensive project to gather data and analyze the status of gender equality within educational system in Serbia. This part of the research is concerned with attitudes toward gender equality within the higher education system and as a point of departure uses an assumption that higher education has in establishing value systems far reaching consequences for the whole society and its future. The research is based on questionnaires through which the following data has been gathered: attitudes to motivation for the choice of field of study and profession, roles in the family, partner roles, feminism. The conclusions point to the fact that the gender roles are not too rigid and stereotypical but point out to some attitudes that need to be further explored, namely young men appear to be less conservative, than young women.

Tekst prikazuje rezultate istraživanja stavova prema rodnoj ravnopravnosti u sistemu visokoškolskog obrazovanja u Srbiji i deo je projekta Politike rodne ravnopravnosti: obrazovanje kao pokazatelj rodne ravnopravnosti u Srbiji. Zasnovan je na analizi upitnika o stavovima studentske populacije oba pola o motivaciji za izbor studija i profesije, odnosu prema porodičnim i partnerskim ulogama, feminizmu kao i ne/ poželjnim rodnim ulogama (karakteristikama). Rezultati analize upućuju na to da studentska populacija u Srbiji ne percipira rodne uloge kao previše rigidne ili konzervativne, ali i na to da studentkinje u većoj meri implicitno pokazuju stereotipne stavove u odnosu na rodne uloge od njihovih muških kolega.