The University of Valencia announced the "A. Olga Quiñones Fernández" Award with the aim of promoting the incorporation of a gender perspective and equality in teaching and research. This proposal is part of the fifth axis of the II Equality Plan of the University of Valencia (2013-2017), dedicated to research and teaching, which reaffirms the will to promote and consolidate the gender perspective in undergraduate studies and thus postgraduate in research contents.

The award is named after A. Olga Quiñones Fernández, the first director of the Equality Unit of our University and a woman linked to this institution and to the fight for gender equality.

Olga Quiñones was born in Salinas (Asturias) in 1940 and died in June 2014 in Valencia. She was a full professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Valencia. In the field of university management, she was deputy director of the Ausiàs March University School of Teaching, secretary of the Faculty of Social Sciences and vice-dean of the same.

As director of the Equality Unit, she coordinated the diagnostic study “Women and men at the University of Valencia'' and coordinated the elaboration and drafting of the 1st Equality Plan, which was approved by agreement of the Governing Council in 2009.

Professor Quiñones was the founder and vice-president of the Association of University Women (1974-76), president of the Valencian School Council (1985-88), a member of the Seminar on Feminist Studies (1983) - currently the University Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Valencia- and Deputy Director General of the Women's Institute (1993-96).

Member of the Advisory Committee of the Rector of the University of Valencia for Equality Policies 2002-2007; of the Gender Observatory of the Generalitat Valenciana and of the Non-Sexist Advertising Observatory of the Generalitat Valenciana, she was also co-author of several researches on women and gender equality.

In recognition of her work and lifelong commitment to Equality policies, she received the 2012 Progressive Women’s “Commitment to Equality Policies” Award in 2012.

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The purpose of the A. Olga Quiñones Fernández Prize is to reward studies on women, feminists, which address the discriminations suffered by women, that incorporate the gender perspective or are committed to effective equality between women and men.

It has three modalities: for Final Degree Projects (TFG) or equivalent, for Master's Final Projects (TFM) or equivalent and for doctoral theses (TD).

AWARD-WINNING WORK

V EDITION (2018):

Modality 3: Doctoral studies, Doctoral Thesis

The aggravating generic circumstance of discrimination on grounds of gender by Néstor Orejón Sánchez de las Heras.

Modality 2: Master's degree studies, Final Master's Thesis

The challenge of a coeducational model. The implementation of the Coordination of Equality and Coexistence in the secondary schools of the province of Valencia by Mariana Laura Urueña Torres.

Modality 1: Degree Studies, Final Degree Project

If my voice could be. Speeches in the mouth of the Malinche by three Latin American authors of the s. XX of Iris by Benito Mesami 

IV EDITION (2017):

Modality 3: Doctoral studies, Doctoral Thesis

“The budgets with a gender perspective in the Spanish State” by Mónica Gil Junquero i Accèssit a: “Trans persons’ bodies in context: experiences in daily life, sport and physical education ”by Sofía Pereira García.

Modality 2: Master's degree studies, Final Master's Thesis

 EX-AEQUO a: “Femvertising and neoliberal subjectivation: A critical analysis of an emerging model of femininity in current advertising” by María Morales Sánchez and “The representation of women in action cinema. The case of Mad Max: Fury on the road as a reinvention of modern heroin ”by Marta Marín Gavila. 

Second prize to Carmen Ramos González "Margins of representation: porn cinema, sexual politics and feminist perspective."

Modality 1: Degree Studies, Final Degree Project

“From the window: Woman with a goat. 1929 by Maruja Mallo. From your window to mine 1987 by Carmen Martin and From your window to mine 2011 by Paula Ortiz ”by Paula Moreno Malo

Second prize: “Triple conviction of women imprisoned in Spain: Institutional, social and personal. Analysis from a gender perspective of the Spanish Women's Penitentiary System ”. by Enrique Ruiz Gros:

III EDICIÓ (2016):

Modality 3: Doctoral studies, Doctoral Thesis  Living conditions, informal solidarity and care. Neither alone nor not alone in the single parenthood of Andrea Hernández Monleón

Modality 2: Master's degree studies, Master's Thesis  "How beautiful you would be if you lost fifteen kilos!": Reflections on neoliberal discourses on "the beautiful" and "healthy" from a feminist perspective by María Nina Navajas Pertegas (summary of work)

Modality 1: Undergraduate studies  Final Degree Project Reconciliation of family, work and personal life. A counter-right by Elisa Simó Soler

Bases de la convocatoria 2016​​

SECOND EDITION (2015):

Modality 1: Undergraduate Studies, Final Degree Project: Marina Guillén Reig,    “Women and men and violence. An educational proposal to work on gender violence and violence against women with the group of young people at the Center de Dia d’Acollida ”

Modality 2: Master’s degree studies, Final Master’s Thesis, Lucía Valls Mondragón, “Construction of the socio-sexual imaginary, gender technology and post-television: Gandia Shore as a spectacle of globalization” (summary of the work). 

Convocatòria, Bases 

FIRST EDITION (2014)

Modality 1: Undergraduate Studies, Final Degree Project:  Ana María Alfaro Cánoves, "Gender relations: does education condition them?" .

Modality 2: Master's degree studies, Final Master's Thesis "Resistance practices and recoding of power devices: the case of FEMEN and the body as a political tool", and Sara Vierna Fernández for her final master's thesis "Neo-dressing princesses. Princelandia, building the myth of beauty through children's play." 

Bases de la convocatòria 2014