The Gender Attitude Related Rolles of University Students Who Continued or Not the Gender Equality Course

Aim: This study is conducted to determine the gender attitude related rolles of university students who continued or not the gender equality course.

Method: A descriptive and comparative study is planned in this study. It is conducted with 84 students that all take and not take the lecture of gender equility and. Data were collected by using personal identity form and Gender Roles Attitude Scale. The analysis of data made by descriptive tests chi-square, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon.

Results: At the first monitor, no diff erence found between the groups that had the education and that didn’t have the education regarding the Gender Roles Attitude Scale score average. But at the second monitor made after the education, a statistically meaningful diff erence found on score averages of groups.

Conclusion: The results of the study shows that the lecture of Gender Equility eff ects gender roles attitude of students and it is suggested that this lecture should be included in the curriculum of all higher education institutions.