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ivnosti, razrednosti, etničnosti, seksualnosti, intersekcionalnosti, binarno-
sti, nebinarnosti, cisspolnosti in transspolnosti. Prav tako bodo premišljale/-i
(ne)enakost spolov na različnih področjih (v politikah enakosti spolov, pravu, na
univerzi, na podeželju, v potopisju, migracijah, izobraževanju, medijih, javnem in
zasebnem prostoru).
Posvet bo izveden v okviru projekta Zelena, digitalna in vključujoča Univerza
na Primorskem (GDI UP) – pilotni projekt Univerze na Primorskem v okviru ukrepa
prenove visokošolskega strokovnega izobraževanja za reformo visokega šolstva
za zelen in odporen prehod v družbo 5.0.
Posvet bo potekal v slovenskem in angleškem jeziku.
Gender Equality: Considerations and Challenges
Gender equality efforts began decades ago as a result of a growing recognition
and awareness of the urgent need to reduce or eliminate unfair differences in
the social treatment of women and men, and to equalise women’s rights and op-
portunities vis-à-vis men. Although women’s position in society has improved
significantly in many countries, communities and institutions since (the advent
of) ground-breaking efforts for fundamental equality and equity for women, the
need to highlight, expose and address (the) persistent problems of old, new and
re-emerging inequalities for women has not simply disappeared. Recently, at-
tempts to re-traditionalise women in society have intensified, even in the most
developed countries, where women as a historical force have achieved an envi-
able degree of equality with men in rights and opportunities, making the case for
a pertinent engagement with gender (in)equality all the more compelling. More-
over, people whose gender and gender identity have been completely excluded
from past equality reflections and concerns have recently come to have a pub-
lic voice. It is about gender equality for gender minorities such as transgender,
intersex and gender non-binary people, i.e. people who do not identify with the
gender/sex assigned to them at birth, or who do not identify with the established
gender divide of female and male. It is precisely because of gender variant people
that the persistent legacy of the dominant binary production of discourses on the
equality of men and women and the normalised division of gender into only two
categories (cisnormativity) seems to be transformed into a broader spectrum of
possibilities of gender identities and identifications. This is also an opportunity to
begin to think and practice gender equality in a way that is truly inclusive for all
people, regardless of their gender or gender identity. In this way, gender equal-
ity will truly become a plural label that addresses and includes the equality of all
genders already recognised in society, thus moving beyond a focus on men and
women as exclusive genders.
Universities around the world have put themselves at the forefront of the mis-
sion for a more inclusive society in the 21st century by adopting various docu-
ments and action plans on gender equality. They have committed themselves to
actively implement (the) principles of gender equality, which include, inter alia,
the prevention of discrimination, stigmatisation and violence on the basis of gen-
der or gender identity, the commitment to the inclusion of diversity, and the con-
sideration of gender as a topos of thematisation and problematisation in research
and teaching. The present symposium at the University of Primorska should be
placed in the context of these broader academic, scientific and university efforts.
The ambition of the symposium is to have the University become a more inclusive
university that fosters conversations and develops educational and research con-
tent in the field of gender equality. This ambition is also in line with the objectives
of the GDI UP project, which provided the framework for the symposium: In accor-
dance with the Regulation on the Establishment of the Recovery and Resilience
4
sti, nebinarnosti, cisspolnosti in transspolnosti. Prav tako bodo premišljale/-i
(ne)enakost spolov na različnih področjih (v politikah enakosti spolov, pravu, na
univerzi, na podeželju, v potopisju, migracijah, izobraževanju, medijih, javnem in
zasebnem prostoru).
Posvet bo izveden v okviru projekta Zelena, digitalna in vključujoča Univerza
na Primorskem (GDI UP) – pilotni projekt Univerze na Primorskem v okviru ukrepa
prenove visokošolskega strokovnega izobraževanja za reformo visokega šolstva
za zelen in odporen prehod v družbo 5.0.
Posvet bo potekal v slovenskem in angleškem jeziku.
Gender Equality: Considerations and Challenges
Gender equality efforts began decades ago as a result of a growing recognition
and awareness of the urgent need to reduce or eliminate unfair differences in
the social treatment of women and men, and to equalise women’s rights and op-
portunities vis-à-vis men. Although women’s position in society has improved
significantly in many countries, communities and institutions since (the advent
of) ground-breaking efforts for fundamental equality and equity for women, the
need to highlight, expose and address (the) persistent problems of old, new and
re-emerging inequalities for women has not simply disappeared. Recently, at-
tempts to re-traditionalise women in society have intensified, even in the most
developed countries, where women as a historical force have achieved an envi-
able degree of equality with men in rights and opportunities, making the case for
a pertinent engagement with gender (in)equality all the more compelling. More-
over, people whose gender and gender identity have been completely excluded
from past equality reflections and concerns have recently come to have a pub-
lic voice. It is about gender equality for gender minorities such as transgender,
intersex and gender non-binary people, i.e. people who do not identify with the
gender/sex assigned to them at birth, or who do not identify with the established
gender divide of female and male. It is precisely because of gender variant people
that the persistent legacy of the dominant binary production of discourses on the
equality of men and women and the normalised division of gender into only two
categories (cisnormativity) seems to be transformed into a broader spectrum of
possibilities of gender identities and identifications. This is also an opportunity to
begin to think and practice gender equality in a way that is truly inclusive for all
people, regardless of their gender or gender identity. In this way, gender equal-
ity will truly become a plural label that addresses and includes the equality of all
genders already recognised in society, thus moving beyond a focus on men and
women as exclusive genders.
Universities around the world have put themselves at the forefront of the mis-
sion for a more inclusive society in the 21st century by adopting various docu-
ments and action plans on gender equality. They have committed themselves to
actively implement (the) principles of gender equality, which include, inter alia,
the prevention of discrimination, stigmatisation and violence on the basis of gen-
der or gender identity, the commitment to the inclusion of diversity, and the con-
sideration of gender as a topos of thematisation and problematisation in research
and teaching. The present symposium at the University of Primorska should be
placed in the context of these broader academic, scientific and university efforts.
The ambition of the symposium is to have the University become a more inclusive
university that fosters conversations and develops educational and research con-
tent in the field of gender equality. This ambition is also in line with the objectives
of the GDI UP project, which provided the framework for the symposium: In accor-
dance with the Regulation on the Establishment of the Recovery and Resilience
4
