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Feminization of university enrollment has been discussed as a quantitative achievement in the participation of women in higher education since the end of last century. However, gender-based violence has persisted in universities, becoming an evident problem throughout the recent fourth wave feminist protests. This article conceptualizes this qualitative change in the participation of women who fight for educational spaces free of sexist violence as the feministization of higher education. Drawing on a mixed methodology based on the documental recollection of quantitative data and on five focus groups with students and female professional doctors, this article analyzes the transition from feminization to feministization of medicine in Mexico. Results show that there has been a shift from the quantitative achievement of women's participation in this profession (currently 70% of medical students are women) to a qualitative achievement due to a feminist development within the medical field related to the activation of students’ gender agency in recent years (for example, with the creation of the hashtag #MeTooMedicina and the tendederos exposed in several medical schools). By emphasizing the pending challenges regarding gender in this professional field, the article concludes with some considerations regarding the feminist development within the mexican medicine.

This article focuses on the community violence that students at the University of Guadalajara admitted to having experienced when responding to the Encuesta Universitaria de Género, Nuestras voces (Muñiz Moreno et al., 2022). We performed a simple descriptive analysis of the data and used Rita Segato’s conceptual framework as the main theory, which argues that gender violence victimizes society as a whole. It also enables us to analyze new forms of warfare, the mandates of masculinity, pedagogies of violence, and encourages us to adopt a self-critical and imaginative feminist perspective to propose ideas that can help end the war against women. The survey data revealed that community violence was the most prevalent among female students at the University, emphasizing the importance of focusing on data related to sexual violence and students’ mental health. We also cross-referenced data from the different regions with a university presence, which allowed us to identify that community violence is widespread across the State. Therefore, we must more precisely analyze the contexts in which this violence is occurring, so that the university can imagine solutions to revitalize communal life, reform emotional bonds, and propose new forms of masculinity infused with tenderness, helping us overcome the fears and horrors imposed by the cruel forms of violence that we currently experience.

This article focuses on addressing the sexual and gender diverse population within the University of Guadalajara. Based on data from the Encuesta Universitaria de Género, Nuestras Voces (Muñiz Moreno et al., 2022), we describe and analyze the diverse population by focusing on some of their characteristics and their perception of safe spaces in relation to different types of violence. While this survey does not focus on sexual and gender diversity, it does identify some elements that allow us to build dialogues with other initiatives that advocate for the visibility, recognition, and understanding of this population. In this analysis, we start from a critical position toward stigmatizing and/or victimizing approaches that have been taken regarding the sexual and gender diverse population in relation to the violence they experience, as well as their construction as a homogeneous block due to their "non-normative" characteristics. On the contrary, what we seek is to emphasize how experience mediated by orientations and identities accounts for particularities, differences, and concrete needs. The findings reveal that 20.9% of university students identify as LGBT+, and show that while friendships constitute the main support network, the university emerges as the third safest space, evidencing both institutional achievements and challenges. This dialogue allows us to identify advances in data construction, while placing us before institutional challenges for generating affirmative actions for the knowledge and improvement of this population's conditions. In this way, the article is both an analysis and an initial proposal that seeks to make visible the conditions of this population, without losing sight of their differences and specificities.

This article offers a descriptive analysis of the data collected in the "After #MeToo" section of the Encuesta Universitaria de Género, Nuestras Voces (Muñiz Moreno et al., 2022). This section focuses on the perceptions of male students at the University of Guadalajara regarding the impact of #MeToo and feminist movements against sexual harassment. The analysis provides empirical insights into the positions adopted by these men, examining both the positive and negative effects of such movements on the handling of this type of gender violence and on relations between men and women, placing the triggering question within a framework of strong feminist interpellation, which challenges traditional norms of masculinity and calls for a reconfiguration of gender relations. The article presents trend comparisons and syntheses of proportions interpreted within the broader discourse on male responses to feminism, particularly feminist activism addressing sexual harassment. Although limited, especially in the Latin American context, quantitative and qualitative research allows some tentative explanations of the results of this part of the survey without arriving at conclusive statements. Findings suggest that students at the University of Guadalajara generally perceive the impacts of #MeToo and feminist movements positively, though a significant portion hold neutral views. Notably, about one-third of male respondents perceive these movements negatively, particularly when they assess their damaging impacts on male-female relations. These perceptions are different between students inside and outside The Man Box, tending to be more positive among males with more equitable masculinity.

Based on the results of the study Encuesta Universitaria de Género, Nuestras Voces (Muñiz Moreno et al., 2022) conducted for the first time in 2022 among students at the Universidad de Guadalajara, this article analyzes the personal, family, economic, and social conditions under which women who are paid workers, have children, or are caring for others, pursue their education. These conditions are unfavorable and increase the difficulties of successfully going through the educational process. While excessive stress, violence, and demotivating working conditions affect all students, these factors have an exacerbated negative impact on women, increasing the risk of dropping out, abandoning school, failing, and achieving poorly in school. This is a very important issue to examine in educational trajectories based on the principles of gender equality on which the social right to education is based.

The purpose of this article is to analyze some perceptions about gender, gender relations and feminist demands by exploring the point of view of high school and college students at the University of Guadalajara. Based on the Encuesta Universitaria de Género, Nuestras Voces (Muñiz Moreno et al., 2022), I explore students' representations on these topics, according to their sex and age. The results show a tension between perceptions that favor equality between men and women, and others that suggest resistance or setbacks in its assimilation as a right. I discuss this tension in the light of the analytical tools offered by the theoretical framework of the anti-feminist reaction or backlash.

This article contributes to the research with a gender approach; since it identifies from a quantitative study certain experiences of gender violence in young students' couples. It mainly uses feminist literature to describe why these situations continue to occur in the continuum of student life, as well as to analyze the responses and consequences they have on women's lives. The results show that women continue to feel ashamed to share the gender-based violence they experience and that they are still reluctant to denounce it. The main effects identified are emotional aspects and isolation, which are conditioning factors of the patriarchal order imposed in the history of humanity that manages to control the dynamics of women's lives in a position of subordination.

En 1998, cuando en La Ventana se publicó en español la traducción del primer artículo que repasaba la literatura antropológica existente en torno a la cuestión de los hombres y las masculinidades, y de los hombres como hombres (Gutmann, 1997/1998), se hizo evidente que el tema había sido escasamente tratado. En los años siguientes aparecieron cientos de libros y artículos en lo que para algunos ha sido el “momento etnográfico” de los estudios generales sobre los hombres y las masculinidades (Connell y Messerschmidt, 2005/2021). Estos estudios consiguieron llenar las lagunas parcialmente y se dieron a la tarea de refutar las posturas autocomplacientes de sus antecesores, basadas en su mayoría en experiencias y opiniones personales más que en investigaciones reales y análisis fundamentados. Y, como siempre, los mejores trabajos también contribuyeron a refutar los estereotipos racistas y poscoloniales, como fue el caso, por ejemplo, de las etnografías de las masculinidades en países predominantemente musulmanes, que hicieron frente a la islamofobia en sus diversas formas en todo el mundo (véanse Atshan, 2020; Boellstorff, 2005; Ewing, 2008; Ghannam, 2013; Inhorn, 2012; Moussawi, 2020; Naguib, 2015; Peletz, 2021).

Workplace discrimination and violence against university women are structural challenges for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). This study, based on feminist, intersectional, and human rights approaches, analyzes data from the Encuesta Universitaria de Género, Nuestras Voces (Muñiz Moreno et al., 2022). Using multivariate logistic regressions, it identifies factors linked to violence, discrimination, and depressive symptoms. Models included ascriptive, structural, symbolic, agency-related, and expectation variables. Results show significant associations, with domestic workload, sex-gender identity, economic autonomy, institutional context, and feminist identification. The study calls for HEIs to produce and apply systematic data on gender inequality to guide effective intervention.