translated from Spanish: Rectors of State universities present Ministry of education package with seven

Monday, April 08 gender equity measures held the second session of the Council Coordinator of universities of the State, bringing together the authorities of e STOS campuses with the Ministry of education and other government institutions. In the event the CUECH universities formally signed the document “Gender equity to institutions of education Superior”, prepared by the Ministry of education, however, the schools handed out a document that includes other measures, drawn up in a way “participatory communities and which have been implemented progressively to cope with the present higher education gender inequality.” Along with signing the statement that asked the Advisory Council of the Ministry, we have made public a document that seeks to emphasize other aspects which are already underway in our universities, but we would like the whole of the institutions, I would say no only college or higher education, but as subjects to be conversados throughout the educational system, because many of them just have to do with how reinforcing certain stereotypes of children who end up having an impact very deep in the real possibilities for women in academia and universities”, said the rector of the u. of Chile and President of CUECH, Ennio Vivaldi after the meeting. The measures presented, understood as the first step in the commitment to eradicate gender inequality, son:1-towards a policy common to all our universities gender equality aimed at mainstreaming the approach to equality in the different areas of endeavor universitario.2.-establish units or addresses of gender in each University responsible for proposing, coordinating and monitoring policies and actions antidiscriminatorias.3.-establish a prevention policy and eradication of sexual violence and arbitrary discrimination, and care for people afectadas.4-recognize the company name of people – students, academics or officials – trans in negotiations and documents universitarios.5.- Implement a policy of education non-sexist that eradicates stereotypes and biases that reproduce inequalities of gender, both in practices and educational content, addressing, inter alia, the educational models of the Universidades.6.-install standards of initial teacher education with gender perspective, and, in turn, propose gender standards such as quality criteria for the processes of institutional accreditation and training of undergraduate and postgrado.7. Implement a policy of social responsibility in the care that allows face barriers related to family roles that limit women’s career development, and encourage a more relevant role of men, and of the institutions public on the important role of the care of the people.” We did notice that in many of our universities is has already made progress in this area, much more than what appears in that agreement, and we would like that other universities also consider things that have put in the foreground, as for example the amount of mechanisms by which is perpetuated injustice that now exist between men and women. “Issues such as the wage gap, denunciation and punishment for the situations of gender violence, real opportunities given to women, much as in the whole of the community: students, academics and officials”, said the rector Vivaldi.Este commitment, is also present in the text of the law on State universities, which relieves the equity of gender as one of the “binding principles that guide the work of the universities in the State and which underlie the fulfillment of its mission and its” functions”and it has been assumed by the universities of the State, grouped in the CUECH, more than one year ago.

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