Initial Goals:

As a whole, from my survey I hope to learn about the perception and awareness of Santa Clara students view on sexism.  In this modern age, people may be more inclined to believe sexism no longer exists since women’s rights are much more equivocal.  What my surveyors may not realize is that sexism still occurs in the world and on our own college campus.  Therefore, I want to understand their modern perceptions.

I am particularly interested in determining if the surveyors believe sexism still exists and if they are able to pinpoint when it does.  I also hope that I am able to sample a group of people that is equal male to female because I think gender plays an important role in one’s perception of sexism.

 

Design Theory: 

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When I created my survey I tried to keep in consideration people’s time and interest in my survey.  I limited my survey to 10 questions featuring predominately yes or no questions.  While this was the primary type of question I used, I also variegated answers with short answer questions and likert scales.

In order to combat bias, I asked follow-up questions requiring an explanation for an opinion.  Generally, it is harder for a person to hold steadfast to a bias when they are asked to explain their individual opinion.  While this may not be the most affective way to avoid bias, it was the most logical to me when developing my survey.

 

Review:

After conducting my survey, there have been a series of interesting trends emering particularly when comparing male and female perspective.  First, I asked men and women whether they believed sexism still existed on college campuses.  In this case, the 9 male participants unanimously agreed that sexism still exists while 24/25 female participants believed in its existence.  In total, 97% of my sampling believed in the presecence of sexism on college campuses.

Of the 34 participants, 9 of them are male and 25 are female.  Realistically, my survey data would offer a better representation if each gender had equal representation.  While this limits my survey, I attempted to minimize the effect of one gender having greater representation than the other by looking at percentages within each specific sex.

Have you ever been put in an uncomfortable position while on campus because of your gender?

 

 

For example, one question asked, “Have you ever been put in an uncomfortable position while on campus because of your gender?” From this question the results showed merely 12% more females had been put in an uncomfortable position because of their gender in comparison to males.  Additionally, there was data supporting 56% of females have felt uncomfortable regarding something related to their gender while 56% of males had never been in a displeasing position due to their gender.