Present research on gender equality
Santo Domingo.- The Center for Gender Studies of Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) presented ten papers during the "VI Dominican Conference on Gender Studies", the main space for dissemination and analysis of this theme in the country, with multidisciplinary approaches.
With the title "Building Knowledge for Equality", the academic day was developed in four thematic panels and a conference in the areas of economy, health, political participation, education and sexuality, addressed by ten specialists from different scientific disciplines.
Lourdes Contreras, director of CEG-INTEC, criticized the lack of a focus on social equity and gender perspective within the National Development Strategy 2010-2030, as a national planning instrument for the Dominican State. Among the panelists were Dálida Acosta, Alina Ramírez, Ángela Hernández, Tahira Vargas, Indiana Barinas, Albania Genao, Aracelis Paulino, Isaura Cotes and Ana Mitila Lora, together with Carlos Decena as lecturer.
In the same way, the results of a study on pregnancies in adolescents and their incidence in the class, under the responsibility of Indiana Barinas. Its content showed a form that shows social and gender disparities, highlighting how wage discrimination is reproduced for life, social exclusion and the feminization of poverty.
Another of the investigations presented, was in charge of Ana Mitila Lora, entitled "Hidden history of the Dominican nuns", analyzed the conditions of inequality experienced by the nuns within the Catholic Church, since their arrival on the island in the mid-fifteenth century until its departure at the end of the XNUMXth century. This study identified the exclusion of women in ecclesiastical historiography and shows how the church and its representatives benefited from slavery and prohibited the ordination of black priests.
The main objective of this conference is to formulate proposals that contribute to the development of relations of equality through a space for exchange and debate, to learn from the perspective of rights, the structural and cultural roots of the problems of inequality between men and women in the country. Contreras specified that the conferences have been defined as academic spaces for analysis and debate aimed at establishing, highlighting and analyzing the manifestations of social, economic, political and cultural inequalities that mark the hierarchy between the masculine and the feminine.
"Besides constituting contributions to science and the construction of knowledge, gender studies have two main purposes: on the one hand, to present social reality from a traditionally hidden dimension, such as that of people according to their sexual condition, men and women. women valued and recognized, or devalued and not recognized according to the assigned roles and patterns of human behavior and, on the other hand, provide information, considerations and analysis from which public policy can be formulated that affects the transformation of inequality relations based on that condition ”, underlined the director of CEG-INTEC.
The opening words of the VI Conference were in charge of the Vice-Rector of Research and Liaison of INTEC, Julio Sánchez Maríñez. The Academic Coordinator of the CEG-INTEC, Desirée del Rosario Sosa, presented the considerations and conclusions of the debates, while the Dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences Area, Migdalia Martínez, closed the activity.
Academic and scientific communities, social movements interested in the construction of knowledge from different disciplines and practices, with a gender perspective participated in the meeting.
About the CEG:
The Center for Gender Studies (CEG) is based at the 1987 to study the relations of inequality between men and women, recognizing the need to promote awareness in the country about the way in which inequality relations between men and women are manifested and to formulate alternatives for the construction of gender equality.
To fulfill this purpose, the CEG develops research on the manifestations of gender inequality, offers academic programs such as the Master's Degree in Gender and Development, and the Diploma in Gender Violence; and advises government organizations, private companies and multilateral agencies in the incorporation of a gender perspective in their work.