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In recent decades, policies have been implemented in Europe to promote gender equality in higher education and in academic research. The Spanish Organic Law 3/2007 for the effective equality of women and men contemplates Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) as a tool for companies and organizations, including universities, to achieve this end. One of the most relevant concerns in any GEP is the initial diagnosis of the situation, but the literature also points out a need for periodical monitoring of the state of inequalities to measure the impact, effects and consequences of the implemented actions of the plan. Hence, the aim of this article was to develop a questionnaire for equality as perceived by staff in a university labor context and to explore its preliminary psychometric properties. The GEPSU (Gender Equality Perception Scale for Universities) was developed by a group of women researchers who all have expertise in gender studies and experience and training in GEPs. A total of 270 people from different staff categories answered the GEPSU by Google Form survey at a Spanish Public University. The results for the dimensional structure and construct validity of the GEPSU showed three factors: labor Equality (Factor 1), Conciliation (Factor 2) and Motherhood/Fatherhood (Factor 3). We found high correlations between them and the results for their internal consistency were optimal.
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Martí-De Olives, A., Terol Cantero, M.C., Martín-Aragón, M. et al. Development and Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the Gender Equality Perception Scale for Universities (G.E.P.S.U.). High Educ Policy (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-023-00341-0
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