Gender assessment of teaching work during the pandemic lockdown. The case of ahigher education institution in southeastern Mexico

Two years after the end of the COVID-19 stage, studies have been found on various factors related to university education; however, each region experienced and developed strategies in a different way. This situation contributed to generate contingency actions that helped to minimize educational deficiencies when these could not be face-to-face; however, although there were certainly insufficiencies, most teachers had to manage to transmit their knowledge, often supported by technological tools or by any other means that suited their work or teaching skills. The objective of this research was to evaluate the teaching work during the confinement generated by the COVID-19 pandemic by the industrial engineering students of the Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida. The study had a quantitative approach, relational scope since groups of industrial engineering students were compared, and non-experimental cross-sectional design, since variables were measured at a single point in time and variables were compared with respect to gender. The results showed that there are significant differences in the opinions of academic work between female and male students. This result leads us to reflect on the need to address the teaching-learning process in female students, since the results obtained show that they do not perceive academic work in the same way as male students.