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Gender Bias Versus Gender Violence in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of the Literature in Social Sciences and Humanities (2018–2022)

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  • Claudia Matus

    (Center for Educational Justice, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile)

  • Valentina Riberi

    (Center for Educational Justice, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile)

  • Fernanda Rojas

    (Center for Educational Justice, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile)

Abstract

While gender inequality continues to be widely reported as a problem and global priority, there has been a general pattern of progress in the last 25 years. In the academic world, this has meant an increase in women’s enrollment in higher education and the female academic workforce. Despite visible progress, significant problems remain, particularly gender violence within academia, which is often underexplored or understudied. From queer feminist studies of science frameworks, we conduct a scoping literature review that aims to identify knowledge gaps. It highlights the consequences for policymakers of focusing on biases instead of most structural ones by reviewing literature in the social sciences and humanities, expanding the focus of gender issues of bias and violence beyond the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The findings from 43 articles show that gender bias is more commonly discussed (79%) than gender-based violence (21%) in publications between 2018 and 2022. We conducted a thematic analysis to identify the main topic addressed. Later, we discuss the consequences for policymaking when the focus is on “bias” versus “violence”. We state that the overemphasis on “gender bias” does not transform the binary reasoning about gender, which is the basis of gender violence.

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  • Claudia Matus & Valentina Riberi & Fernanda Rojas, 2024. "Gender Bias Versus Gender Violence in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of the Literature in Social Sciences and Humanities (2018–2022)," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 13(12), pages 1-14, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:13:y:2024:i:12:p:658-:d:1536247
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