Equality Unit
The Equality Unit is responsible for the implementation of gender equality policies at the university. The UOC has been working with gender equality plans for more than ten years, in order to mainstream the gender perspective and to combat inequalities on the grounds of people's gender or sex.
What is the Equality Unit?
What is the role of the Equality Unit?
The unit's primary task is to ensure equal treatment and opportunities for women and men and LGBTI people, and to combat situations involving sexual harassment and discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression.
What exactly does the Equality Unit do?
The Equality Unit's work involves the following strategies:
- It designs the UOC's equality plans, and ensures they are correctly implemented through follow-up and assessment.
- It draws up gender equality analysis reports, which assess life at the UOC from a gender perspective.
- It advises the various academic and administrative bodies on gender equality policy issues.
- It proposes and promotes measures that enable teaching, research, knowledge transfer and administration with the gender perspective.
- It works to ensure that the statistics provided by the UOC concerning its work in all areas are broken down by sex.
- It carries out awareness-raising, education and training on gender issues, sexual diversity and equal opportunities for 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 anticipates 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 in and collaborates with university networks specializing in gender and sexual diversity issues.
Do you want to contact the Equality Unit?
Against harassment and discrimination
See our protocol and regulations: Addressing gender-based and LGTBI-phobic violence.
Equality Plan
See the UOC 2020-2024 Gender Equality Plan.
Who are the members of the Equality Unit?
See the Members of the Equality Unit.
Timeline of the Equality Unit
