The Gender and Sexualities Area of the UNR presents its Management Report 2019-2024
The report includes the balance of the work carried out after 5 years of assuming the challenge of mainstreaming the gender perspective in the University, carrying out an unprecedented and unprecedented process throughout the university system.
The creation of a specific management area should have been accompanied by a political strategy oriented towards transversality, avoiding the encapsulation, fragmentation and atomization of a perspective with foundations and action strategies that are based on integrality and articulation. As an operational proposal to achieve this strategy, the “UNR Feminist Plan 2020-2023”.
The Plan has five stages where it sought to account for the state of the UNR regarding gender gaps and the policies and actions implemented to reduce them. From diagnostic reportIn 2020, meetings and work rounds were held with all academic units, in conjunction with the UNR cabinet coordination area to develop objectives and goals.
The implementation of the Plan was carried out through different programs and actions that involved working together with all academic units and all management areas. Among the actions and policies developed, the updating of the Protocol for care and prevention of gender violence, the mainstreaming of Comprehensive Sexual Education, the expansion of conciliation and care policies, the Educational and Labor Inclusion Program (PIEL) and the implementation of Transvestite Transgender Job Quota “Alejandra González” and the strategies of awareness and training on sexist violence intended for the entire university community.
The development of gender policies and their institutional tools stand out worldwide. This was reflected in the Global Impact Ranking prepared by the English consulting firm, Times Higher Education, which values the university contribution to the progress of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations. The UNR is among the top 10 universities of the world in developing axis 5 of the SDGs for their work in eliminating forms of discrimination and gender violence, improving access to rights and ensuring their effective participation in leadership and public life. Likewise, the UNR was recognized with the LGBT+ Equality Certificate 2024 for practices regarding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This recognition was granted by Human Rights Campaign for advances in levels of inclusion and diversity.
The Gender and Sexualities Area Report reaffirms the importance and role of the University in the face of the serious dismantling of public gender policies at the national and provincial level, fundamental to guaranteeing access to rights for women and the diversity community. And in this way, the University renews its commitment to its community to continue and deepen the work carried out during these years of management.
Full report available at: https://unr.edu.ar/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Infome-de-gestion.-area-de-genero-y-sexualidades-unr.pdf
By Danisa Monte / Photography Merlín Caminos