The literature addresses the importance of developing competencies, but not from the complexity theory, nor does it show the importance of the correlation between gender and age in this process. This article aims to show the results of a study seeking a possible correlation between the perceived achievement of complex thinking competency and gender and age in a student population attending a technological university in western Mexico. The intention is to argue whether there is a statistically significant difference in the acquisition and development of this competency between men and women of different ages during their training. Methodologically, a multivariate descriptive statistical analysis was carried out to demonstrate the relationship between these indicators. We concluded that there is evidence of a gender gap in developing the perceived achievement of the complex thinking competency and its sub-competencies since neither in the overall result nor in the specific results by indicator did women achieve results proportional to those of their male peers, although, in most competencies, they initially surpassed them. The learning experience shows that the gender gap in perceived achievement of complex thinking competency widens as the student population advances in their training process.

文献论述了发展能力的重要性，但不是从复杂性理论出发，也没有表明性别和年龄之间的相关性在此过程中的重要性。本文旨在展示一项研究的结果，该研究旨在寻找墨西哥西部一所科技大学学生群体中复杂思维能力感知成就与性别和年龄之间可能存在的相关性。目的是论证不同年龄的男性和女性在训练期间获得和发展这种能力是否存在统计学上的显着差异。在方法上，进行了多变量描述性统计分析来证明这些指标之间的关系。我们的结论是，有证据表明，在发展复杂思维能力及其子能力的感知成就方面存在性别差距，因为无论是在总体结果中，还是在指标的具体结果中，女性取得的成果均未与男性同龄人成比例，尽管在大多数能力上，他们最初都超过了他们。学习经验表明，随着学生群体在培训过程中的进步，在复杂思维能力感知方面的性别差距也在扩大。