Public policies and gender justice
Seminar 2118
ChairCLACSO
Coordination: Magdalena Valdivieso Ide (UCh, Chile)
Teaching team: Karin Bock Gálvez (UCh, Chile), Eliana Cherubini Sánchez (UNES, Venezuela), Mitzy Flores Sequera (University of Carabobo, Venezuela) and Sofía Schuster Ubilla (UCh, Chile)
HomeApril 22, 2021 Registration: 17/12/2020 to 20/04/2021
Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.
This seminar aims to study and evaluate how Latin American and Caribbean states use public policies to advance gender justice. To this end, it identifies the complex situations of gender inequality present in our region and analyzes the various approaches used to design public policies aimed at addressing these inequities.
Relating public policies to gender justice requires a deeper analysis of public policies as instruments of state action and reflection on how we understand gender justice.
In recent years, gender justice has become a fundamental element of social equity, a challenge to democratic coexistence, and a prerequisite for sustainable development. The State, as the guarantor of social equity, has a responsibility to undertake initiatives to correct gender inequalities and restructure itself to prevent the perpetuation of the system of gender restrictions inherited from patriarchal culture.
Furthermore, a gender perspective in public policy design recognizes that the roles, rights, obligations, resources, and interests of women and men are culturally and socially determined in an unequal and hierarchical manner. This means that requirements, priorities, needs, and interests must be considered differently in the formulation of policies, programs, and projects, as well as in the design of management, evaluation, and monitoring systems. However, a gender perspective alone is insufficient to address situations of inequality. Therefore, the Seminar reviews other approaches that are used in conjunction with gender to understand the complexity of intersecting inequalities that affect women's quality of life.
Developing this seminar during this pandemic presents several challenges. On the one hand, the pandemic, which has undoubtedly had different effects on men and women, exposed the weaknesses of the social organization of care, the institutions responsible for providing it, and public policies, and highlighted the unjust distribution of caregiving responsibilities. On the other hand, it revealed the utter weakness of public policies and gender-related institutions in our countries, so these are issues we must address and reflect upon.
We cordially invite you to be part of this space for the exchange and production of knowledge, in which we highly value the contributions of those who participate, who enrich the exchanges with the diversity of experiences, due to their professions and nationalities.
Regional political context, gender inequality and public policies.
Restrictions, barriers and gender gaps; theories and approachesfor its treatment Restrictions, barriers and gender gaps; theories and approaches to addressing them Role of the State, Public Policies and Gender Justice Analysis of public policies with a gender focus.
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