| Resumen : |
The articles gathered in this publication were prepared by representatives of UNESCO Chairs2 that integrate the UNITWIN Network on Gender Equality3, coordinated by the UNESCO Regional Chair, Women, Science and Technology in Latin America, based at the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Argentina. They all share descriptions, analyses and proposals on the role that Higher Education (HE) plays, and/or needs to play, in order to promote and guarantee gender equality as a fundamental condition for improving the quality of learning processes, its representativeness in research and its contribution to the development of equal, just, supportive, safe and sustainable societies. Many of them provide a historical overview of the role played by university institutions in the construction of paradigms, values and social practices that reproduce diverse forms of inequality, including those related to gender. Therefore, they stress the urgent need to promote significant changes in these institutions in order to achieve the above mentioned goals, although they also warn about the obstacles and resistances that this proposal raises both in universities and in some sectors responsible for designing and implementing public policies. |
