Results Graphs

Summary

Our 10 question survey regarding Gender Bias received a total of 53 responses, with 34
(64%) being female and the remaining 19 (36%) being male. The survey was specifically
distributed to UNC Charlotte students with the intent of gaining insight on students opinions
about gender bias on the UNCC campus. The majors of those that responded ranged from
electrical engineering to nursing and included 28 other majors, with the majority of the
responders being in their first year of college. Almost 70% of those surveyed said that they had
not seen gender bias on campus. This result came as a surprise to us as we had assumed that
more females would have responded yes to this question. Our reasoning for this prediction is
based on prior research we conducted that shows gender bias is a prevalent issue among college
campuses and that the bias is primarily against women. One reason for this result differing from
our predictions is that females often experience more gender bias in male dominated majors and
vice versa and since there were a variety of college majors reported, most of which are evenly
populated by males and females, the results may not show just how saturated particular majors
are with gender bias as compared to others. Although a majority of students reported that they
had not experienced gender bias on campus, most of the students that did report experiencing
gender bias said that student bias towards other students is the most common. Professor bias
towards students was the next highest picked category. We were not surprised to see that most
responders said that the bias favors males over females. However the percentage of people that
chose females as the ones benefiting was 22% which was higher than anticipated. Typically
when people talk about gender bias, females are considered the ones on the short end.

Of the people surveyed, 49.1% chose I do not know, 26.4% chose No, and 13.2%
chose I do not think there is gender bias on campus for the question that asked students
whether or not they thought the university had already made efforts to end gender bias on
campus. These results are intriguing because they show that either students are not aware of the
efforts that may have been made already or that they have tried to look for efforts made by the
university and have noticed none. What is more interesting though, is that some people
responded that they do not think there is any gender bias on campus. These results are not only
striking because of the variety of aspects on campus were recorded gender bias occurs regularly,
but also because it they show that the universitys efforts have not been successful. It was
interesting to see that 75.5% of people said that efforts to end gender bias should be made
because only 30.8% of people said they had experienced gender bias. This means that even
though some people dont experience gender bias, they are aware of it and want it to end. It is
difficult to conclude whether or not our results were precise considering the sample that we
surveyed was not completely random. A majority of those surveyed were female and majors in
engineering; therefore, the results may have been skewed by the uneven distribution of the
survey.