Munoz Rojas, Carolina
PhD student, admission 2024
Nationality: Chilean
Education: Public Administrator, University of Chile. Graduate in Government and Public Management, University of Chile.
Introductionn: Carolina Muñoz Rojas is a Public Administrator and holds a degree in Government and Public Management from the University of Chile. She has been interested in gender studies and their relationship with public policies, focusing on higher education in recent years. She has been a professor at the University of Chile, and a consultant and researcher for international organizations such as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) of UNESCO and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
About my thesis
Thesis: Training and gender policies in higher education
Project description:Within the framework of the implementation of Law 21.369, which regulates sexual harassment, violence and gender discrimination in higher education in Chile, the link between the comprehensive policies that Higher Education Institutions have deployed and teaching as a mission area will be investigated.
Director: Ana Luisa Munoz Garcia
Line of research: Higher Education
Publications and presentations
Publications
(In press). Muñoz Rojas, C. and Troncoso Pérez, L. Transforming the university? Gender and institutional response to sexism in Higher Education. In A.L. Muñoz García and C. Trebisacce (Eds.), Feminisms on the threshold of academia: Knowledge, policies and practices. Collection of Studies in Education, CEPPE UC and UC Editions.
(2023). Muñoz Rojas, C. and Rodríguez Wong, D. Care work and women's educational trajectory in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Project Documents (LC/TS.2023/118), Santiago, Chile: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
(2023). Muñoz Rojas, C. Public policies for gender equality in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM): challenges for the economic autonomy of women and transformative recovery in Latin America, Gender Affairs Series No. 161, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
(2023). Muñoz Rojas, C. Education and gender axis document. Regional overview. IIEP UNESCO, Regional Office for Latin America.
(2022). Figueroa, V., Vergara, P. and Muñoz, C. Indigenous women in Chile: Towards a proposal for public policy guidelines. University of Chile, Institute of Public Affairs and Ministry of Social Development and Family, Chile.
(2021). Rodríguez Wong, D. and Muñoz Rojas, C. Women and education in science, engineering, technology and mathematics: challenges to achieve gender equality and the 2030 Agenda. In MA González and P. Oyarce (Eds.), Science, knowledge, technology and innovation: new maps for diplomacy (Vol. I). Diplomatic Academy of Chile.
(2021). Muñoz Rojas, C. Public policies for gender equality in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM): challenges for women's economic autonomy and transformative recovery in Latin AmericaGender Issues Series No. 161, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
(2021). Salinas, J., Muñoz, C. and Vio, F. Evaluation of massive open online health and nutrition education courses to prevent obesity. Chilean Medical Journal, 149
(2021). Vergara Saavedra, P., & Muñoz Rojas, C. Feminist movements and the social outburst in Chile: The time of women? In B. Navarrete, & V. Tricot (Eds.), The social outburst and political representation in chile, latin american societies (pp. 131-150). Cham: Springer.
(2021). Muñoz Rojas, C. From policies to management: implementation gaps and state capacities for gender equality. In M. Herrera, N., S.E. Fernández and S. de la Torre (Dirs.), and G.Vásquez and M.E. Plaza (Coords.), Treaty “Genders, rights and justice” (pp. 57-72). Santa Fe, Argentina: Rubinzal Culzoni Editores.
(2021). Muñoz Rojas, C. Feminist links and learning for individual and collective transformation. In L. Pautassi and FM Navarro (Eds.), Feminism, care and institutions: tribute to Nieves Rico (1st Ed., p. 345-354). Argentina: Medifé Publishing Foundation.
(2020). Muñoz Rojas, C. Gender equality policies in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Latin America. States of the Art Series, International Institute for Educational Planning, Regional Office for Latin America, UNESCO.
(2020). Muñoz Rojas, C. Gender equality and training in public affairs: challenges for universities and the discipline. In Public problems and public policies in Latin America: Cases for analysis, University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
(2019). Muñoz Rojas, C. Technical-vocational education and economic autonomy of young women in Latin America and the CaribbeanGender Issues Series No. 155, Santiago, Chile: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
(2018). Muñoz Rojas, C. Care as an object of inclusive and gender-focused public policies, State, Government and Public Management Magazine, 30, 15-43.
Presentations
(2024). Rethinking university teaching from a feminist perspective: Institutional strategies to address sexism in higher education, Carolina Muñoz Rojas and Lelya Troncoso Pérez, AERA Annual Meeting: Dismantling racial injustice and constructing educational possibilities, Philadelphia, United States, April, in-person format.
(2023). Feminist discussions on education in the first Constitutional proposal, Ana Luisa Muñoz García and Carolina Muñoz Rojas, Latin American Congress of Curricular Studies, University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, November, in-person format.
(2023). Gender policies in higher education in Chile: Challenges surrounding the implementation of Law 21.369 regulating sexual harassment, violence and gender discrimination, Ana Luisa Muñoz García and Carolina Muñoz Rojas, II National Conference “Making Feminist Universities”, La Plata, Argentina, October, in-person format.
(2023). Feminist discussions on gender and education in a transformative constitutional proposal, Ana Luisa Muñoz and Carolina Muñoz Rojas. AERA Annual Meeting: Interrogating consequential education research in pursuit of truth, Chicago, United States, April, in-person format.
(2022). Gender equality and women's autonomy: Care and challenges for public policies in STEM, ECLAC specialist workshop The challenges of youth inclusion for transformative recovery, Santiago, Chile, August, in-person format.
(2022). Challenges of incorporating the gender perspective in universities: What does it imply for training in public affairs?, II National Congress of Public Administration Studies, Argentina, May, virtual format.
(2019). What challenges are identified in the design and implementation of public policies in the region?, Seminar on Advances and challenges in the face of violence and discrimination against women and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Quito, Ecuador, November, in-person format.
(2019). Gender and public affairs: Disciplinary challenges, XV Annual Conference of the INPAE Network, Inter-American Network of Education in Public Administration, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile, April.
(2019). Vocational training for the economic autonomy of women living in poverty: the case of Chile, International Seminar on Technical-professional education and labour inclusion for greater equality in Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC and the Government of Norway, Santiago, Chile, March, in-person format.
Awarded contests
ANID National PhD Scholarship 2024
The National Doctoral Scholarship aims to financially support doctoral studies in all areas of knowledge, in programs accredited in accordance with Law No. 20.129 and taught by Chilean universities, for a maximum period of four years, counting from the start date of the study program.
