Coordinators: Lourdes Budar Jiménez and Dalia Xiomara Ceballos Romero
Preamble:
Feminism as a social movement emerges as a struggle for the recognition of rights, as do other social movements such as the LGBTTTIQ+, indigenous, peasant, and environmentalist movements or those in defence of territories. In the evolution of these movements, as well as through contributions from other spheres such as the university and academia, either from decoloniality and its critical perspective on the coloniality of power and knowledge, proposed in the South of Latin America; or from intersectionality and the need to name different connected systems of domination and oppression, proposed in North America, we see a diversity of voices, bodies and identities of women and men, belonging to different genders, generations, social classes, ‘races’, ethnicities, nationalities, speakers of different languages, with functional diversity, who are proposing and building critical perspectives on the universal subject of women and men, from which gender equality and policies for gender equality are often considered in HEIs.
The commitment is to address gender and interculturality in a critical way, to recognize the diversity of diversities that characterize our societies, and the different ways of living and re-existing in the face of multiple inequalities and forms of violence that tend to become invisible such as racism, xenophobia, sexism and heterosexism, discrimination, exclusion, extraction and expropriation (from territories , bodies, knowledge systems and practices).
Objective:
- Generate a space for dialogue and reflection on the integration of the perspectives of gender, interculturality and intersectionality in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies to promote gender equality in IES.
Topics:
- Policies for gender equality and the diversity of diversities in Higher Education Institutions
- Proposals for the design and implementation of policies for gender equality that bring an intercultural and/or intersectional approach to the gender perspective
- Achievements and challenges in the design and implementation of policies for gender equality that bring an intercultural and/or intersectional approach to the gender perspective
- Gender equality in HEIs: critical reflections and perspectives on the gender perspective and the intercultural approach in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic contexts
