ULudoteca - the gender equality project chosen by the community

"ULudoteca - work support space" is the socially committed gender equality project at the UVic-UCC that received the most votes, with 48.8% support from the members of the community that participated in the selection process. The project by the lecturers of the Faculty of Education, Translation and Human Sciences (FETCH) Isabel Carrillo, Esther Fatsini Matheu and Rosa Guitart prevailed over the other three proposals, and their idea involves creating an educational service for children that is part of the workplace. The aim is to improve the balance between work and family life, especially during the periods of the academic year in which the university calendar and the school calendar are not the same.

The UVic-UCC ULudoteca aims to enable both teaching, research, administrative and services staff to attend the training, management and research activities that take place at Easter, in July and August, and during the first fortnight of September. All staff working at the UVic-UCC with children up to 12 years of age will be eligible to benefit from the project. The authors believe that their initiative reinforces "the implementation of the university's social responsibility that the institution aims to fulfil in relation to the entire community”.

The lecturers will have one year to produce and present the project, which will be financed using the funds obtained from the amounts not paid to the salaries of the people who joined the strike on 8 March 2018.

Carrillo, Fatsini and Guitart have already participated actively in gender initiatives at the university. At the end of last year, they organised various workshops and courses, including "The trap of gender stereotypes. How to respond to subtle sexism", based on the book they published in 2017, entitled "Desfer la teranyina del gènere des de l’educació" [Dismantling the gender trap using education]. They have also created a teaching document for incorporating gender in teaching studies, as part of the project on "Gender transversality in initial training."