The workshop “Strategies and Policies with a Gender Perspective in Higher Education Institutions”, organized jointly by the Universidad de Los Lagos and the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE), will end on September 3.
Rector Óscar Garrido – who is also president of OUI – said after the penultimate day of the course focused on gender gaps in the field of scientific research, “As OUI we were the forerunners in the Americas in creating the space for Women University Leaders. Universities are institutions that generate knowledge and development, but they also reproduce what happens in society, such as not having the spaces and opportunities for women to have all the tools to lead their own institutions.
“The law on state universities places three hallmarks: the development of an active and deliberative citizenship, the recognition of native peoples and gender equality, from that perspective we agreed with the IOHE board of directors to promote training programs such as the one that will soon come to an end, throughout the university world in the Americas, with the aim of providing more tools and strengths to drive the transformational change that is required.”
The course on strategies and policies with a gender perspective is aimed at the management positions of the Gender Equality directorates and offices that were installed in Chilean universities after the legislative changes that followed the feminist movement of 2018. It provides tools to identify, develop and implement policies to promote the professional development of women in university life.
The objective of the course is to rethink Higher Education Institutions as spaces in which equal opportunities between men and women must be guaranteed.
Gender gaps, the right to education, salary equity, work-family reconciliation and access to positions of power, are presented as unresolved issues in higher education institutions that demand short-term responses.
Modules and workshops
The last workshop of the second module – which was postponed due to the covid19 pandemic – will be held on September 3 and will address the topic Teaching with a Gender Perspective.
The previous session analyzed and sought solutions to the gender gap in the world of research and science. This workshop was given by María José Rodríguez Jaume, BA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Alicante, Spain (UA).
Dr. Rodríguez has been teaching since 2016 the transversal training module “Inclusion of the gender perspective in research” at the UA Doctoral School.
Participation
Las y los 21 participantes del Curso provienen de instituciones de educación superior de todo el territorio nacional, entre ellos, 10 miembros de la comunidad ULagos. Anita Dorner, Vicerrectora del campus Puerto Montt de la ULagos fue una de ellas “Es una temática muy interesante, es un ‘deber ser’ el ir instalando estos temas a todo nivel: en el pregrado, en el aspecto curricular, en la investigación y obviamente la participación activa de todas y todos es importante para ir generando una cultura de equidad de género e ir disminuyendo las brechas en esta materia.”
The 21 participants in the course came from higher education institutions throughout the country, including 10 members of the ULagos community. Anita Dorner, Vice Rector of the ULagos Puerto Montt campus was one of them “It is a very interesting topic, it is a ‘must to be’ to install these issues at all levels: in undergraduate, in the curricular aspect, in research and obviously the active participation of all is important to generate a culture of gender equity and reduce the gaps in this area”.
