Home security in El Salvador: Perception of university women.

Abstract

Violence is a phenomenon that is embedded in all human relationships, including ties such as family, couples, or friendship, which according to the collective imagination, should be a network of protection and support throughout life, however, the data obtained reveal another reality, especially for the female population and even more so in unexpected events such as the COVID-19 pandemic; That is why this research aimed to know the perception of home security associated with filial and affinity relationships of university students. The approach was quantitative with a descriptive scope, and a sample of 1,241 surveys applied to university women, with an age range between 17 and 56 years. The results confirm that the home, as a private sphere, is one of the places that the students perceive as most unsafe and where violence is exercised most frequently, where the main player is the man, generally the partner, father or uncles; the main types of violence perceived are psychological, physical and sexual. In the public sphere, they identify the street as the most unsafe place, with unknown men being the main perpetrators of violence. It is for this reason that it becomes key to educate, sensitize and raise awareness from an early age to the general population, with the aim of preventing and thereby exponentially minimizing violence directed at women in the life cycle.