News & Events

The UP Open University (UPOU) Office of Gender Concerns (OGC) started the celebration of Women’s Month with a Kick-Off Event on 4 March 2020 at the UPOU Headquarters Main Building Lobby. The program started with a game of charades that showed the actions of the attendees’ associated with being a man and a woman as a warm up. This was followed by a Gender-Bias Bingo that was intended to make the guests reflect on the gender-based biases happening around them.  The Kick-off Program closed by the unveiling of the Freedom Wall.  Everyone was invited to express their thoughts by answering two [...]

OGC Director, Asst. Prof. Rameses De Jesus, and project staff, Shaznay Sumiran, attended the UP System Gender and Development Committee Meeting, held on February 27, 2020 at UP Diliman and attended by Coordinators and representatives of UP gender offices.

The Office of Gender Concerns (OGC) conducted an open discussion about gender issues on February 5, 2020 from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM. The goal of the event is to amplify the conversation about gender-related topics to promote people’s awareness. It also aims to eliminate people’s reservations on asking and learning more about gender, sexuality, and inequality issues. The OGC has previously released information materials about gender equality, the concept of intersectionality, end of violence against women, and the fight against sexual harassment. As people have been exposed to these matters, the event served as a venue to ask their questions [...]

OGC Director, Asst. Prof. Rameses De Jesus, presented his study on Pursuing Gender-Responsive Online Higher Education in the Philippines; representing the UP Open University in the 5th Congress of Asian Association of Women's Studies (AAWS) 2019, Facing New Challenges for Feminisms in Asia: Reiterations, Renewals, and Revisions. The conference was held on December 6-8, 2019 in the Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea. The challenges for feminism in Asia is the focal subject of the 5th Congress of the Asian Association of Women's Studies 2019; with the outlook that asia is a "social and political construct whose geographic boundaries change depending [...]

The UP Open University, led by the Office of Gender Concerns joined Los Baños' Walk to End Violence Against Women (VAW) as part of the 18-day Campaign to End VAW.  The event was organized by the Gender and Development Office of the Municipal Office of Los Baños on November 25, 2019; starting the walk from the Multi-purpose Evacuation Center and ending it in the Municipal Office Building. The event also included an exhibit featuring statistics of cases of VAW, laws against VAW, and visual representations of the numbers of VAW victims and manifestations of VAW.

OGC Director, Asst. Prof. Rameses De Jesus, served as resource speaker for the Mental Health and Gender, during two seminars at the Sandiganbayan. The first seminar was attended by 180 employees of Sandiganbayan, held on 13 November 2019; while the second seminar was attended by 150 employees of Sandiganbayan, held on 21 November 2019.

OGC Director, Asst. Prof. Rameses De Jesus, attended the UP System Gender and Development Committee Meeting. Attended by Coordinators and representatives of UP gender offices, held at UP Cebu Lahug campus, on 14-15 November 2019. 

OGC Director, Asst. Prof. Rameses De Jesus, served as consultant in the ISAT U Guidance and Counseling staff meeting held at the ISAT U conference room, on 7 November 2019. Participated by ISAT U Counselors, OSA Director, and GAD Committee Coordinator.

OGC Director, Asst. Prof. Rameses De Jesus, served as resource speaker for the Gender and Mental Health seminar held at the ISAT U Auditorium on 07 November 2019, this time attended by 220 university students.

OGC Director, Asst. Prof. Rameses De Jesus, served as resource speaker for the Mental Health and Gender seminars held at the Auditorium of the Iloilo Science and Technology University (ISAT U). The first seminar was on 06 November 2019, attended by 170 faculty members.