The Deputy Director of Gender at the UC Faculty of Education participates in the 2nd CRUCH Seminar on Gender Mainstreaming in Higher Education.

On Thursday, August 28, 2025, the II Seminar “Mainstreaming the gender perspective in Higher education: articulation of training processes with equity criteria”, organized by the Gender Equality Commission of the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities (CRUCH), which took place in the Hall of Honor of the Pontifical University of Chile.Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV) and will bring together academic and management teams from various higher education institutions in the country. 

The inaugural talk entitled “What knowledge counts?: Gender and training at the university, given by Ana Luisa Munoz, Deputy Director of Gender Affairs at the Faculty of Education. In her remarks, the academic addressed the challenges higher education faces in recognizing, legitimizing, and articulating knowledge from a gender perspective, theorizing about academic knowledge and perspectives in educational processes, highlighting the importance of generating structural and curricular changes that allow for progress in gender mainstreaming in higher education.

The seminar constitutes an instance of collective reflection promoted by the CROSS, the purpose of which is to strengthen the incorporation of a gender perspective in Chilean higher education. To this end, the call brought together academic vice-rectorates, quality assurance departments, academic units, curriculum committees, schools and programs, as well as gender, continuing education, and postgraduate units, among other areas related to the design and management of university education.

The activity seeks to foster the exchange of experiences and curricular tools between universities, placing special emphasis on how the gender approach translates into pedagogical practices and equity criteria that run transversally across curricula.

The participation of the Gender Branch from the UC Faculty of Education at this meeting reaffirms the university's commitment to the transformation of higher education from an inclusive and feminist perspective, contributing to the national debate on gender equality in educational processes.