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The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) spearheaded by the Office of Gender Concerns (OGC) celebrated the  2021 National Women’s Month in  collaboration with the different units of UPOU and partner organizations.  The UPOU aligned its activities with this year’s national theme “We Make Change Work for Women: Juana Laban sa Pandemya: Kaya!” Online Communication Campaigns  OGC kicks off the first day of Women’s Month by releasing an online communication campaign asking women how they coped with the COVID-19 pandemic.  One of the responses the office received was from aProf. Ria Valerie Cabanes of the  UPOU’s Faculty of Management and [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), led by the Office of Gender Concerns (OGC), joins the #ChooseToChallenge campaign as part of its celebration of the International Women’s Day on 8 March 2021. We would like to invite you to join us in the #ChooseToChallenge campaign. Let us choose to challenge and commit to ending gender-based violence, gender bias, gender inequality, and other gender issues.  Share this post, wear something purple for #PurpleMondays, and take a selfie of you doing the #ChooseToChallenge pose (right hand raised). Create a statement that you will personally commit to for International Women’s Day.  [...]

Today is the start of Women’s month, which is celebrated not just here in the Philippines but all over the world. With this year’s theme “We Make Change Work for Women: Juana Laban sa Pandemya: Kaya!”, the UPOU Office of Gender Concerns (OGC) salutes all the Juanas and highlights the extraordinary roles of ordinary Juanas in the society as initiators, trailblazers and harbingers of change.  We also honor the women frontliners who are striding head on to ensure public safety; and to give praise to women and girls who have adjusted their old routines into the new normal, and continued to [...]

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) Office of Gender Concerns (OGC) conducted a  Gender Sensitivity Training (GST) for the university’s faculty and staff on 27 November 2020 via zoom.  The training was attended by more than 50 faculty and staff from different UPOU offices and units. The main goal of this activity is gender-mainstreaming and to increase awareness and consciousness of gender issues and gender and development among faculty and staff. Assistant Professor  Finaflor Taylan, a faculty member of the Faculty of Management and Development Studies (FMDS) of UPOU and a former OGC Director, and Ms. Rio Grace Otara, [...]