Comparative study of the empowerment of working women in two higher education institutions, Mexico-Peru

Abstract

The present work compares the empowerment of working women in two higher education institutions, through the Instrument to Measure Women’s Empowerment (IMEM), proposed by Hernández and García (2008), to identify the similarities or differences in the empowerment of women from two higher education institutions. The IMEM was applied to a sample of 84 women workers in a technological institute in Mexico and 88 in a private university in Peru. The research is basic, quantitative, descriptive in scope, and cross-sectional, with voluntary and convenience nonprobabilistic sampling, obtaining as a result in the institution in Peru that the level of empowerment is high for 47.7% of the sample, medium for 47.7% and low for 4.64%; in the institution in Mexico, the level of empowerment is high for 76.2% of the sample; medium, for 20.2%, and low, for 3.6%, with an average of 2.73 in the empowerment measure for the Mexican institution and 2.43 for the Peru institution. Using ANOVA, it was obtained that there is a significant difference in the perception of empowerment, with a significance level of 0.00, between the two higher education institutions.