Diferencias de género en la ubicación de las calles en el centro o en la periferia de A Coruña

Abstract

The principal aim of this work is to study the knowledge that university students of A Coruña have of the location or relative location of representative points of the city, and to analyze if gender significantly influences this knowledge. With this aim, there was selected a group of university students of the degrees of Speech therapy and Social Education of the University of A Coruña, men and women of the first course, which it was asked that to judge up to what point different relevant locations of the city concerned or not to the downtown. Beside analyzing the punctuations of the whole group to each of the points, and of men and women separately, we were interested in knowing how these "subjective" punctuations were correlating with the actual punctuation, which represents the objective distance between every point and Maria Pita's Plaza (point selected for the study as modal of the downtown). Of 29 representative points of the city included in the study, we only found significant differences between women and men in the estimation of the belonging to the center of 7 places of the city. The women thought correctly that Hercules' Tower, the Bus station, The Domus, Azcárraga's Square and San Antón's Castle were more near the center that the men, whereas his average estimations on the Coliseum and Los Rosales were also significantly different from those of the men, though inaccurater. Of the remaining locations, still without there being significant differences with the estimations of the men, the estimations of the women turned out to be more succeeded in 63,64 % of them, opposite to 31,8 % of places in that the men committed less mistake. Analyzed as a whole the estimations offered by the group of participants to all the locations, it is observed that the majority of the representative points of the city were perceived as less central than really they are (a 75 %). Nevertheless, the correlations between the estimations of the participants and the punctuations that were representing the objective distance were positive and significant for all the groups.