EQUALITY GUIdE - KU Leuven

Chapter 1 ! Personnel development and organisational culture 61
The survey respondents show an overrepresentation of female students since the distribution
of all students is 55.3% women and 44.7% men.
Analyses were performed for each part of the questionnaire. We will not elaborate too
much on the results from part one (organizational climate) since the factor analysis
of this part showed no reliable scales. Nevertheless, students scored 6.69/10 on average
for studying climate. Significant differences were only found on this score between
faculties. In this part, the extent to which some groups are subject of laughter and offensive
remarks is also measured. Below are listed the results.
Table 12: Number of offensive remarks or jokes
Offensive remarks or jokes about Never Seldom Sometimes Often
Women 650 (48%) 500 (37%) 189 (14%) 8 (0.6%)
LGBT people 715 (52.8%) 445 (32.9%) 167 (12.3%) 18 (1.3%)
People from other ethnic backgrounds 618 (45.7%) 479 (35.4%) 225 (16.6%) 26 (1.9%)
People with disabilities 842 (62.2%) 390 (28.8%) 98 (7.2%) 7 (0.5%)
Other 246 (18.2%) 59 (4.4%) 32 (2.4%) 16 (1.2%)
The most (?) insulting remarks or jokes are made about people from another ethnic
background. Other people students make insulting remarks or jokes about are: Frenchspeaking
Belgians (5), students with good points (3), students with bad points (5), professors
(4), men (3).
Furthermore it was checked to what extent students have contact with other students
who are different from them. By contact we meant more permanent forms of working
or living or studying together for example working together on a task, eating together,
living together in a student home, etc. An overview is given below.
Table 13: Number of contacts with other students
How often contact with Daily Weekly Monthly Seldom Never
LGBT students 187 (13.8%) 257 (19%) 123 (9.1%) 467 (34.5%) 311 (23%)
Students from other ethnic
backgrounds
432 (31.9%) 339 (25.1%) 167 (12.3%) 285 (21.1%) 124 (9.2%)
Students with disabilities 27 (2%) 86 (6.4%) 73 (5.4%) 630 (46.6%) 530 (39.2%)
Students from other social 625 (46.2%) 344 (25.4%) 135 (10%) 191 (14.1%) 51 (3.8%)
backgrounds
Students have most contact with students from another social or ethnic background.
They have least contact with students with disabilities.
The analysis of part two on well-being revealed that students generally feel good at