Gender identity and female empowerment in the inhabitants of the Quinta Elena Neighborhood Association, 2020

• Autores: Navas Gómez, Heidy Cristina, Malpartida Portocarrero, Ana Belén, Carranza Esteban, Renzo Felipe
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad Peruana Unión
• Repositorio: Revista UPEU - Revista de Investigación Apuntes Universitarios
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs2.apuntesuniversitarios.upeu.edu.pe:article/709
• Enlace del recurso: https://apuntesuniversitarios.upeu.edu.pe/index.php/revapuntes/article/view/709
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Gender identity, empowerment, self-concept, gender roles.; Identidad de género, empoderamiento, autoconcepto, roles de género.

The present study aimed to determine if there is a significant relationship between gender identity and female empowerment among the inhabitants of the residents of the Quinta Elena 2020 neighborhood association, an applied, quantitative research with a non-experimental-correlational design was used. cross-sectional section, with the sample consisting of 120 women from the Quinta Elena neighborhood association, the instrument “Questionnaire on attitudes towards gender identity (CAIG) - Modified” and the “Instrument for measuring empowerment in women (IMEN)". Finally, it was observed that gender identity is medium in 45.0%, in the same way, empowerment also registered a medium level in 74.2%, reaching the conclusion that there is a relationship between the variables evaluated (p <.05; r = .747) which demonstrates the proposed hypothesis.