Basic Concepts for Gender Equality
Learn the basics of gender equality to transform your relationships, beliefs, and actions while recognizing the harm of hierarchical gender structures.
Learn the basics of gender equality to transform your relationships, beliefs, and actions while recognizing the harm of hierarchical gender structures.
In this course, you'll appreciate the importance of gender equality in transforming your interpersonal relationships, beliefs, customs, ideas, thoughts, actions, and behaviors. You'll identify the negative effects, harms, and privileges produced by the hierarchical and binary gender structure across all cultural domains. You'll analyze the intersection of inequalities that oppress, exclude, and violate lives in precarious sociocultural contexts. You'll distinguish the effects of gender inequality on the use of time and spaces. Finally, you'll recognize the importance of shared responsibility in domestic and care tasks to sustain common life.
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What you'll learn
Understand the difference between sex and gender and how they shape social interactions
Identify gender roles, stereotypes, and mandates that influence our daily lives and social structures
Recognize the sex-gender system and heteropatriarchy and their impacts across cultural contexts
Analyze intersectionality and how different aspects of identity create unique experiences of discrimination
Examine the unequal distribution of time and space based on gender, including domestic and care work
Learn practical strategies for shared responsibility in domestic and care tasks
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There are 5 modules in this course
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to fundamental gender equality concepts structured across five modules. Students explore the differences between sex and gender, examining how roles, stereotypes, and mandates shape our social interactions. The course investigates the sex-gender system and heteropatriarchy, analyzing their cultural manifestations and impacts. Through an intersectional lens, participants consider how multiple identity factors create diverse experiences of discrimination. The curriculum covers the inequitable distribution of time and space, including divisions between productive and reproductive labor, unpaid domestic work, and the feminization of certain professions. The final module addresses the importance of shared responsibility in domestic and care tasks for achieving gender equality in everyday life. Through video lectures, discussions, and peer-reviewed assignments, students gain practical insights to recognize and address gender inequalities.
Roles, estereotipos y mandatos de género
Module 1 · 2 Hours to complete
Sistema sexo-género y heteropatriarcado
Module 2 · 1 Hours to complete
Interseccionalidad
Module 3 · 1 Hours to complete
Privilegios y daños en el uso del tiempo y del espacio
Module 4 · 2 Hours to complete
Corresponsabilidad en tareas domésticas y de cuidado para la sostenibilidad de la vida común
Module 5 · 2 Hours to complete
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Instructors
Head of Education for Equality, CIGU
The Jefatura de Educación para la Igualdad, part of the Coordination for Gender Equality (CIGU) at UNAM, is responsible for promoting gender equality through education. This role involves leading initiatives that integrate gender perspectives into educational programs across all fields of knowledge and levels of education at UNAM. The goal is to create a more inclusive and equitable academic environment by addressing gender-based violence and promoting awareness about gender issues. As part of its mission, the CIGU works to ensure that gender equality is a core aspect of UNAM's educational framework. This includes developing curricula, training faculty and staff, and implementing policies that foster a culture of equality and respect for diversity. The CIGU's efforts are integral to UNAM's broader commitment to becoming a model institution for gender equality in Mexico and globally
Professor and Coordinator of Sexual and Reproductive Rights at the University Bioethics Program.
Lourdes Enríquez is a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, and a member of the Permanent Seminar on Research "Alterity and Exclusions." She coordinates the area of Sexual and Reproductive Rights in the University Bioethics Program. She holds a Master's degree in Philosophy of Law from UNAM and is also a lawyer. Her work focuses on human rights, gender critique, and analysis of political-legal discourse. Her research and teaching areas include gender equality, reproductive rights, and bioethics. She is involved in various academic and social initiatives, contributing to publications and participating in seminars related to gender issues and human rights. Her expertise extends to collaborating with the Center for Gender Studies and Research at UNAM, as well as being part of the National Laboratory of Diversities.
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