Primary Research 1

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.