Gender Inequalities in University Teaching Practice: An Innovative Project at the University of the Basque Country

Abstract

Feminist research on gender inequalities in academia has demonstrated the need for policies in universities and scientific institutions to be oriented towards institutional and cultural change in order to promote gender equality. It has also highlighted the role of women ’s representative groups and the strategies and lines of action that organizations for equality develop through equality plans.

This article describes the training experience carried out with teaching staff of the UPV/EHU, as a result of the Educational Innovation project aimed at incorporating the gender perspective in university teaching. This action is included in the Training axis of the III Equality Plan of our university. The participating professors have expressed the great value and their willingness to implement the gender perspective in all those activities that are included in the teaching practice in a reflexive way to achieve more democratic educational spaces in higher education.