Alonso Ruido, PatriciaEstévez Blanco, IrisVarela Portela, CristinaRegueiro Fernández, Bibiana2023-06-212023-06-212023Alonso-Ruido, Patricia, Iris Estévez, Cristina Varela-Portela, and Bibiana Regueiro. 2023. College students’ stereotyped beliefs. Social Sciences 12: 302http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30740Over recent years, socio-political discourse has been full of language aimed at reaching gender equality. This is a complex goal that should address the underlying bases of inequality— gender stereotypes that continue to legitimize unequal consideration and treatment. It is also a reality that universities are not exempt from. The objective of this study was to analyze university students’ stereotyped beliefs and look at the differences based on self-identified gender and branch of knowledge. The analysis looked at a sample of 3433 university students (67.9% women), aged between 17 and 56 (M = 18.95; SD = 2.35) and reported low rates of prevalence of stereotyped beliefs, with significantly higher means in men and in engineering students. The survival of gender stereotypes in a population who were born and raised in a legally egalitarian society points to the importance of education programs aimed at university teachers that would give them the capacity to incorporate a gender perspective in all disciplines, especially those disciplines reporting greater adherence to stereotyped beliefs.eng© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/)StereotypeGender rolesGender equalityUniversity studentsEducationjournal article10.3390/socsci120503022076-0760open access