Igualdad de género y sexismo en la música comercial hispanoamericana

Sammanfattning: This work aims to relate Spanish America music with the research from Glick et Al (2000) in their study Beyond prejudice as simple antipathy, where they conclude that the level of sexism in a society correlates to that country's gender equality. To analyze this relationship, the ranking published by the UN on gender equality between countries has been used as source and the Spanish-American country that occupies the first place in the ranking in gender equality and the country that occupies the last were selected. Then, the first three top selling songs in these two countries have been analyzed to find out if the sexist content of these songs could differ, and thus see this correlation with the study by Glick et al (2000). The data obtained did not match with the first of the conclusions reached in said study regarding the correlation between the UN gender equality index and sexism in society. However, other conclusions, also stated in the aforementioned study, have matched due to a coincidence perhaps, for instance, in the type of sexist expressions. In the country with a better position in gender equality, the most successful songs had a greater number of hostile expressions against women. This could possibly be explained that as women achieve greater gender equality in society, they are also seen as a threat by some men and are consequently discriminated against in a hostile way, either by treating them as an object or by accusing them of using their feminine power against men. The conclusions coincidences between the present work and Glik et al (2000) work are been considered fortuitous.