The Gender Dimension of Plagiarism: A Case Study

Abstract

Many studies on plagiarism have suggested that there exist gender differences in the extent of plagiarizing in education. It is therefore the purpose of this paper to determine the different reasons why students engage in plagiarism and to describe any gender differences in the reasoning of the students. In this present paper, a total of thirty college students (fifteen males and fifteen females) of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), University of the Philippines Manila were included. A semi-structured survey questionnaire was used in this study and descriptive statistical tools were used to characterize the study population. Based on the findings of this study, males and females practice plagiarism on a similar level. However, their reasons of plagiarizing are very different.