IJFS - Interdisciplinary Journal of Family Studies

This work is part of an experimental study involving some theoretical
lessons of gender studies that aim to promote the empowerment of a group of
university students and to increase their awareness of the subordination of women
and their ability to act effectively to curb it. The students were involved in a
meeting of sociodrama (video-recorded) during which they could express their
representations of female roles. In order to observe the development of
empowerment and to analyze how “the ideal woman” was verbally represented,
we used specific software for the management and analysis of audio-video data
(Transana Software, v.2.42) (Muhr, 1991).