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This paper aims to provide a discussion on the topic homomaternal family and school. To this end, a qualitative research study was performed through narrative interviews which were conducted with four pedagogical supervisors from four schools located in the south of Brazil. After signing the informed consent, the interviews were recorded and transcribed, subjected to discourse analysis from the perspective of feminist studies of gender and Socio-Historical Social Psychology. The results show that despite the political and social efforts, there is still much resistance in the reflection of the subject in schools, guided by a heteronormative and patriarchal society. Therefore, an effective work on the subject is urgent in schools, so that prejudice and discrimination may decrease in Brazilian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the analysis of pro-social behavior in high school students from Pasto and Bucaramanga (Colombia). 2.694 students between 11 and 17 years old (1.878 from Pasto and 816 from Bucaramanga) were sampled and a Pro-social Behavior Scale of Teenage Inventory of Social Skills (TISS) was administered. As a result, this research shows teenagers from Pasto showed higher levels of pro-social behavior than those from Bucaramanga. Socio-environmental variables, such as culture, sex, age or nationality influence students' pro-social behavior development and maintenance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to establish the relationship between gender and quality of working life assesment in health professionals in Guadalajara, Mexico. 322 people were sampled in a health institution. The satisfaction related to their quality of working life, was assessed through CVT-GOHISALO instrument. As a result, women dissatisfaction was revealed with opportunities inequality. In addition, sampled women showed through statiscal significance to be more satisfied than men, talking about personal development achieved through work and free time management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on some interaction patterns related to gender in Neighborhood Dispute Cases, submitted to a Local Neighborhood Consumer Protection Office. Community mediation using field research logs and home interviews were the schemes relied on by the Local Office to handle these situations. To deal with the conflict situation, a dispute between a man and a woman is discussed in which mutual behavioral expectations as they related to women vulnerability and consequent loss of the mediating position during the dialogue are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper shows the results of a study which objectives were to compare a means of received and perpetrated violence among people who live with and do not live with a partner, between both genders, and to study the relationship between received and perpetrated violence. For this study a questionnaire of violence against the partner was given to a non-random sample of 223 women and 177 men with heterosexual partner, showing that 48,5 % are married, or cohabiting men and 51,5 %, are boyfriends. Violence perceived was higher than violence received; married and cohabiting men were complaining to receive more violence. The recursive models of violent reaction (after received violence from their partners) and received violence (after perpetrated violence against partners) are shown to better fit the data of a bidirectional one (or vicious cycle). Based on these results, some suggestions are made in order to guide the polity of couples' violence against gender equity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research paper was to identify some psychological variables and personal identification related to the presence of suicidal ideation according to the gender at a Mexican student university. Participants included 584 students: 52,6% men and 47,4% women. The ap- plied instrument was the scale of Suicidal Ideation Roberts-CES-D, which was reliable and valid in both genders. No significant difference was found between the percentage of suicidal ideation of men (9.4%) and women (11.9%), and the variables that are associated with suicidal ideation in both genders were attempted suicide being a victim of humiliating situations, lack of social support and presence of negative emotion. In addition, men showed academic performance and upsetting experiences in recent months; while amongst women, GPA and discipline had a great impact as well as receiving discipline in an atmosphere of many rules, or environments without rules or punishments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This reflective paper tries to summarize the thinking of feminist Seyla Benhabib and show her concern about identity problems, subjectivity, and challenges which the feminist thought must raise. In particular, the challenge of becoming on par with other identity theorists and to enter the contemporary philosophical, moral and political discussion as an equal. Benhabib's theoretical considerations focus on the need to replace the subject of study and paradigms in feminist theories. These theories lead to the fragmentation of human and social groups, while eliminating the possibility of developing a common point of view about the radical transformation of society. The author contends that the unity of the "ego" and the subject matter are important for the feminist theory and practice; that's why it is necessary to establish the identity. To this end, Benhabib weighs the contributions of communitarian theories, postmodern and feminist and tries to combine them in the context of one radical critical theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]