The work of the Sofia Group is carried out on two fronts. On the one hand, the Group carries out activities that seek to draw attention to and have an impact on gender issues in the academic world of the Social Sciences. On the other hand, it carries out activities to promote, in a concrete way, a greater participation of women in spaces of production and diffusion of knowledge, of debate and formulation of policies.

Strategies:

1. Activism and Advocacy: carries out activities that seek to make explicit and draw attention to gender issues in the academic world of the Social Sciences in Peru, emphasizing their causes and consequences.
2. Promotion of greater female participation in the Social Sciences: develops work that helps to promote greater participation by women in spaces for the production and dissemination of knowledge, debate and policy formulation.

For more information: http://www.gruposofia.org.pe

The Ibero-American Research Network on Work, Gender and Daily Life brings together researchers from different disciplines whose analysis focuses on productive and/or reproductive work, on the relations between both types of activity, on their conditions of exercise, and on the repercussions that these relations and conditions have on daily life.

The geographical scope of the Networks’s activities corresponds to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. The members who participate in the initial composition of the Network carry out their academic and/or research activity in one of these countries. However, this geographical scope may be extended to other countries related to the purposes and objectives of the Network, accepting new applications to join the Network.

The network seeks to reflect on:

1. Working conditions
2. Meaning and value of the work
3. Employment conditions, unemployment and precariousness
4. Social protection of the worker
5. Inequalities in employment
6. Gender violence in the workplace.
7. Gender wage gap
8. Reconciliation of work and family life
9. Gender inequalities in employment and time use
10. Social organization of care
11. Public policies in favor of gender equality and for the development of the welfare of dependent persons

For more information: http://www.redtragevic.com/web/

EMULIES is a platform for academic exchange, capacity building for university management and cooperation of women leaders of higher education institutions (HEI) in the Americas in order to strengthen their leadership and participation in decision-making in the field of higher education.

Mission: To build an inter-American space for collaboration, information and communication that links women leaders of HEI in the field of higher education and that contributes to the creation of an agenda for the strengthening of leadership and their participation in decision-making in the field of higher education.

Goals:

1. To contribute to strengthening women’s leadership and participation in decision-making in the field of higher education.
2. To promote innovative initiatives and forms of management that build increasingly democratic, inclusive and socially responsible HEIs
3. To provide rigorous and up-to-date information on the situation of women in HEIs, in particular with regard to their participation in decision-making
4. To influence higher education policies that favor equity, particularly gender equity. Monitoring the new training and capacity building needs of women leaders in HEI and the education sector

For more information: http://www.emulies-oui-iohe.org

The UNESCO Regional Chair “Women, Science and Technology in Latin America” was created in 2001 based on the recommendations of Foro Regional Mujeres, Ciencia y Tecnología en América Latina (Bariloche-Argentina, 1998) and the World Conference “Science for the 21st Century: Towards a New Commitment” Budapest- Hungary, 1999). Its main objective is to promote conditions that ensure gender equality in scientific, technological development and innovation (STI) through:

1. The full participation of women and men in education and work in these fields.
2. The integration of gender analysis and the gender dimension in scientific research, technological production and innovation.
3. The transformation of institutional cultures, processes and practices.
4. The questioning of gender stereotypes, attitudes, norms and values about women and men in STI.
5. The design of public and private sector policies and programs, supported by evidence of the benefits of gender equality in STI.

For more information: https://www.catunescomujer.org

The Ibero-American Research Group on Women, Conciliation and Co-responsibility (GIIMCCO), is made up of researchers from thirteen higher education institutions in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Spain, Costa Rica and Ecuador, whose objective is to analyze the public and institutional policies that frame the “situations” of professional women who work: maternity rights, labor policies, performance evaluation, etc. As well as analyzing the experiences lived by women managers and academics dedicated to research within the framework of these institutional realities. The group is part of the Space for Women Leaders in Higher Education Institutions of the Americas (EMULIES), a program of the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE).