The LGTBI Universities Group has scheduled a series of activities aimed at the university community on the occasion of 28 June, International Lesbian, Gay, Transsexual, Bisexual and Intersex Pride Day.
Dr. Maria Jesús Izquierdo, retired professor from the UAB, reflects on the difference and inequality between women and men in the context of the Covid-19 crisis.
Margot Pujal, PhD in Social Psychology and researcher in the Department of Psychology in the Social Psychology Area of the UAB, reflects on the global overflow of care due to coronavirus and its effects on women's health.
The UAB has joined the first institutional network created in the LGTBI area in Spanish universities. The first joint action of the group was the drafting of the manifesto "University is Universe and Universe is Diversity. For LGTBI rights" in commemoration of the 17M, International Day against LGTBIfobia.
The UAB and the Directorate-General for Equality will cooperate in cases of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. The Servei d'Atenció Integral of Cerdanyola del Vallès (Comprehensive Care Service) will manage the cases referred from the campus.
On 26 April Lesbian Visibility Day is celebrated. For this reason, we want to make a series of cultural suggestions on lesbian subjects to raise awareness and claim lesbian women as models.
Sara Moreno Colom, vice-rector of Students and Employability and member of the Department of Sociology of the UAB, has participated in the online space UAB Respon, with the video "The gender impact of Covid-19".
The UAB teaching centres and services are not indifferent to the situation caused by COVID-19, and have organised a series of initiatives related to their areas of knowledge, to help make this period of self-isolation easier.
Following the indications of the Generalitat and according to the announcement of the executive administrator of the UAB, we will telework from the 13th of March until further notice.