The University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) conducted the UP Symposium on Gender Politics in Our Time on 7-8 December 2017 at the National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (NISMED), UP Diliman.

Photo from UP Center for Women’s and Gender Studies

Asst. Prof. Rameses A. De Jesus of the Office of Gender Concerns, UP Open University (UPOU) presented on the issues relating to gender and mental health.

“The symposium aims to provide a venue to examine, discuss, debate, and reflect on the gender issues of our time. It focuses on the contributions of contemporary scholarship in gender and women’s studies to our understanding of gender politics and its critical intersections with power in all levels and aspects of our lived realities.” – UP CWGS