Comparative analysis dimensioned by sex on socioeconomic attributes, vocational orientation and gender perspective in career selection, Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico, 2021

Abstract

With the objective of comparing the main attributes in the choice of career for the municipality of Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico, 2021. A study with a cross-sectional quantitative approach was carried out. Using a comparative analysis and taking into account gender as a grouping variable, using the T-Student parametric hypothesis test for independent samples, 159 attributes were compared on a 0-10 ratio scale in 445 subjects. As a preview of the results, it is noteworthy that the theoretical dimension with the most surprises is not the gender expectation in the choice of career, an understandable assumption if the grouping variable is gender. The hypothesis tests showed greater asymmetries during the verification on the student socioeconomic status between women and men, since, in 16 of 19 attributes measured, equivalent to 68.42% of the items, the marks of significance and low female averages required rejecting the hypothesis. of nullity With the above, it can be inferred that women are today the majority in the universities of Fresnillo, because an important segment of them is circumscribed to a socioeconomic level below the average, meanwhile, the men who access higher education, belong mostly at medium and high socioeconomic levels.