Amelia Mañá Lloria

Vice-Principal Equality, Diversity and Well-being

PRESENTATION

The University of Valencia, as established in its Statutes (Art. 241 ter), has an Equality and Diversity Unit responsible for advising, coordinating, and evaluating the mainstreaming of gender equality in the development of university policies, including a gender perspective in all university activities and functions, and coordinating and mainstreaming the development of university policies on inclusion and anti-discrimination across all university activities and functions.

The main areas of work are:

CULTURE OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY: This area focuses on raising awareness and disseminating a culture of equality through workshops, debates, and conferences, which improve university and social perceptions regarding the need to incorporate the values ​​of equality and diversity. Annual grants are awarded for awareness-raising activities, a wide range of training courses are offered for staff, and initiatives are launched to promote academic work with a feminist perspective.

EQUALITY OBSERVATORY: A key tool for highlighting inequalities between women and men in the university setting through studies and reports. The development, monitoring, and evaluation of equality plans contribute to personnel policies that promote work-life balance and shared responsibility, training, access to and career development, as well as university governance based on equality and the coordination of specific actions that may be implemented by different bodies, centers, and services.

DIVERSITY INITIATIVE: Policies on sexual and gender diversity, as well as ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity, are promoted through the Diversity Initiative, which is structured around different areas of work: awareness-raising and training, support and attention to diversity, teaching and research, networking, and institutional policies.

PURPLE SPACE: A resource responsible for the prevention and response to gender-based violence, providing services to:

• complaints of cases of sexual harassment, based on sex and sexism that are suffered within the university community in relations between staff or students.

• to victims of gender violence to protect them from their partner or ex-partner within the UV units and also in other academic and psychological needs.

Sonia Rodríguez de Llamas

Head of Initiatives in the area of prevention of gender violence