The programme started on Monday in Rector Peset Hall of Residence with a presentation of a book Teacher of Teachers commemorating 150 years of training of the Valencian teachers Carmen Agulló Díaz and Blanca Juan Agulló. The participants of the event included Mavi Mestre, the UV principal,  Francesc Xavier Rius, an MP for Regional Valencian Ministry of Culture, Teresa Ferrer, the director of the UV editorial, and two authors of the book.

On 5 March, the UV principal will open the Gender Equality Month with a central activity of the event, reading a manifest of the Network of Gender Equalities for University Excellence (RUIGEU). Isabel Sanchis Vila, the head of the Government Delegation for Gender Violence of the Spanish Ministry of Equality, will hold a conference on the Possibilities of Action and Prevention of the New Forms of Gender Violence. At last, Pilar Ezpeleta Piorno, the University General Director of the Regional Valencian Ministry of Innovation, Universities, Sciences, and Digital Society of the Valencian government (Generalitat Valenciana), will deliver a speech “The Challenge of the University Equality Policies”.

At Blasco Ibáñez Campus, the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication will organise reading clubs, artistic discussions, poem recitals, meetings with writers, documentary screenings, and two round table discussions about “Journalism and Equality” and “Women and the Maghreb Society” during the whole month. A violet tree will be set next to the Violet Space at the hall of the faculty, where the students will be able to hang their messages in suport of equality.

The Faculty of Nursing and Chiropody has planned an activity related to female genital mutilations (MGF) with the participation of Aminata Souko, an MGF survivor from the Peset Hospitall, and Enric Juan Alcocer, General Director of Social Service Infrastructures. The event will take place next Friday 6 March at 1.30 p.m. at the Assembly Hall of the faculty.

The Faculty of Physiotherapy will hold an exhibition about the women in this field of studies as well as place feminist sayings in all classrooms. At the Faculty of Geography and History, the department of Archaeology will carry out a number of social media activities. One the one hand, they will hold a#DonesiArqueologia2020 photo contest featuring famous female archaeologists; on the other hand, they plan to publish a short 2-minute video in which women describe various archaeological devices. 

Finally, during the first week of March, the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences will install a “bench of equality” in the hall of the faculty with white blank cheques to be filled out with good equality practices. Other activities are also planned, like the meeting “Women and Interculturality. Personal Stories of Civil and Feminist Commitment for Social Change” on 11 March.

Equality Commission at the Burjassot Campus will also hold various events to give voice to women in sciences and STEM-related fields. During the whole month of March, the doors of Natural History Museum will be open for the Science Ex Aequo exhibition of Margarita Cimadevila. Having graduated in Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela, she is a painter and a professor of Physics and Chemistry now. Her paintings represent the nature of Sada, a coast town of La Coruña province, with plenty of seashells and petroglyph common in her land. Apart from its undeniable artistic value, the exhibition also serves didactic and popularisation purposes.

Two other activities that will take place in this campus are a meeting among students and professors and a new edition of award and prize ceremony. As far as the prize ceremony is concerned, the UV School of Engineering (ETSE) and the Department of Informatics will award the best videos aimed to reduce the drop-out rates of girls from schools and promote support networks for women in the field of engineering. 

In Tarongers Campus, four centres will hold various events. The Faculty of Economics will present the 7th Equality Award at the Inequality in Time Management Between Men and Women event, in which the participants should write a story reflecting inequality between men and women with regard to time management.

On 9 March, the Faculty of Teacher Training will host a conference Girls-Transgirls: Class Readings in the Most Queer Classroom headed by Guillermo Soler. This initiative is a global, respectful, and inclusive way to educate everyone that class readings should mirror diversity in the society nowadays.

The Faculty of Law will use the first two weeks of March to hold a social media and web campaign 8 March: See the World with the Eyes of a Woman. In addition, 2nd Forum of Employment: 11th Meeting on Career Opportunities  will take place at the faculty on 25 March with a separate round table discussion about women, society and labour market.

Finally, it it worth noting the activities of the Faculty of Social Sciences at this campus. They will include a round table discussion of the traditional music from the female perspective, a feminist street market, and workshops on the new kinds of masculinity. On 10 March at 6 p.m. at the assembly hall, the faculty will commemorate the figure of Magdalena López Precioso, who passed away a few months ago, in an event Madalen: A Committed Professor, a Feminist and a Social Activist. 

Meanwhile, on 24 March in the afternoon, the feminist writer Coral Herrera Gómez will give a speech “Romantic is Politic: Deconstructing Love”, which will take place both at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Rector Peset hall of Residence.

The events planned at the faculty will culminate on 28 April in the event Incorporation of gender perspective in the university teaching of the studies in labour relations and human resources as an element of innovation and good science practice. A few days earlier, on 22 April, the public will have an opportunity to attend a lecture of a political scientist, feminist, researcher, and writer Nerea Barjola “Stories About Sexual Danger: The Case of Alcàsser and the Construction of a Sexual Terror”.

During the whole month of march, everyone will be able to visit exhibitions about art and feminism, such as We Are and We Think of Pepa Arróniz and Lucía Peiró, Think: Look, Think, Tell, Applaud of Lucía Peiró, and The Female Carriers in the hall of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The work of Lucía Peiró “Gender Equality”, the photographs of Encarna Arnal. In Manuela Ballester Hall, “Feminism and Sexuality” exhibition of Alba “Bonoreta” and Borja “Carcayú”. 

On 25 March in the Sapiencia Chapel, the Music class will organise a concert of Violeta Bataller Navarro (flute), Adriana Sena Alcover (cello), and Marina García Vélez (piano).
Finally, the Library of Humanities have created a “Women and Illustrations” corner for its visitors, with the space dedicated to women and a floral art exhibition.