Gender equality
To develop gender equality policies at the university
The UOC has been working with gender equality plans for more than 10 years, to mainstream the gender perspective across the various areas in which the university works, and to combat inequalities on the grounds of people's gender or sex.
This work is carried out through actions for training and advice, planning, awareness-raising, communication and political advocacy in the university's various areas and processes, in its teaching and research work, and its administration and communication.
- Equality Unit
- Equality Plan
- Addressing violence
Learn about the Equality Unit
The Equality Unit is an organization accountable to the Office of the Vice President for Globalization and Cooperation of the UOC. It was established in 2008, in order to develop gender equality policies at the university.
The primary task of the Unit is to ensure equal treatment and opportunities between women and men, including all who identify as LGBTI, and to combat situations involving sexual harassment and discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression.
Action lines
Its work involves the following strategies:
- It designs the UOC's equality plans and ensures they are correctly implemented, with monitoring, follow-ups and assessment.
- It draws up gender equality analysis reports, which assess life at the UOC from a gender perspective.
- It guides the various academic and administrative bodies on gender equality policy matters.
- It proposes and incentivizes measures that promote teaching, research, knowledge transfer and administration practices that adopt the gender perspective.
- It works to ensure that the data provided by the UOC regarding its work in any area is broken down by sex.
- It is responsible for awareness-raising, education and training on gender issues, sexual diversity and equal opportunities between women and men.
- It monitors the university's communications and dissemination of news to ensure they include the gender perspective and sexual diversity, and promote women's representation.
- It prevents any discrimination on the grounds of sex, gender identity or sexual orientation at the UOC, and works to eradicate it.
- It promotes measures that encourage the equal representation of women and men in all areas of the university, and the coordinated application of the UOC's equality policies.
- It participates and collaborates in university networks specializing in gender and sexual diversity matters.
Useful links
Members of the Unit
The Equality Unit is in the process of being reconfigured by extending its mandate, which in 2025 has become the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit.
The new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit is also made up of a technical team:
- Manel Jiménez-Morales, president
- Maria Olivella Quintana, director
- Gloria Jiménez Núñez, manager of cultural diversity projects
- Icíar García Martínez, communication and events project manager
- Inés Rein Dalmases, manager of gender equality and sexual diversity projects
- Rosa Panades Blas, functional diversity project manager
The Equality Unit works in the following areas
2020-2024 Gender Equality Plan Coordination Space
Gender Equality Plan monitoring and assessment committee
Inter-university networks:
Learn about the Equality Plan
The UOC Gender Equality Plan 2020-2025 is the action document that ensures the continuity and validity of our commitment to gender equality. This plan, developed in a participatory manner, is based on the evaluation of the previous Plan 2015-2019, and on three diagnoses that analyse the status of gender equality in the different areas of the university (2018), in the communicative context (2021), and in the working environment (2021). To address the detected challenges and comply with the current legal framework, the UOC Equality Unit has coordinated the update of this plan, maintaining over one hundred measures structured across five strategic axes.
The approval of this action plan and the terms of the diagnoses on which it is based have been made within a Negotiating Committee with the participation of legal representatives of the workers, as established by law.
Despite its current validity (2020-2025), the Plan accounts for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, which exacerbated gender inequalities. For this reason, measures have been maintained and strengthened to respond to the specific needs of the UOC community that arose from the pandemic and the resulting changes in the working environment.
Despite its current validity (2020-2025), the Plan accounts for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, which exacerbated gender inequalities.
For this reason, measures have been maintained and strengthened to respond to the specific needs of the UOC community that arose from the pandemic and the resulting changes in the working environment.
Strategic areas
Teaching
Area 1 of the Equality Plan
Research
Area 2 of the Equality Plan
Communication
Area 3 of the Equality Plan
Organization
Area 4 of the Equality Plan
Monitoring and assessment
Area 5 of the Equality Plan
Documentation
Addressing gender-based and LGBTI-phobic violence
Gender inequalities are a structural problem to which the university is not indifferent. As in other spaces for socialization, behaviours and situations that constitute violence have also been normalized at universities.
As an agent in society generating knowledge, universities can play a key role in eradicating gender violence, transforming the system and the social relationships on which it is based.
The UOC is committed to making its university a space that is free of violence against women and LGBTI people.
How do we do it?
01
Policy on sexual harassment and discrimination on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, and gender expression or identity.
02
Protocol for the prevention, detection, handling and resolution of situations of sexual harassment and harassment on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression at the UOC.
03
As a member of the university community, it is possible that at some point someone will tell you that they are experiencing gender violence outside the university environment, which means the situation cannot be dealt with via the UOC's Protocol for the prevention, detection, handling and resolution of cases of sexual harassment and harassment on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity and/or expression.
News
Resources
- Dealing with gender violence outside the university environment
- Collection: The UOC Equality Unit
- The gender perspective in research
- Good practices for gender equality in scientific journals
- Guide to gender-neutral language
- Guide to teleworking and shared responsibility for work-life balance in the COVID-19 era
- Kit with tools and resources for the design of courses and teaching that include a gender perspective
- Guides for university teaching with a gender perspective
- Kit for UOC authors to include a gender perspective in their content
- Collection of gender-related final projects
- UOC Gender Equality Plan 2020-2024
- UOC gender in the workplace analysis 2021
