Perspectiva de género en Ciencias de la Saludigualdad y Terapia Ocupacional

Abstract

The gender perspective refers to a critical positioning of patriarchal norms that support the social system in which gender is a principle of hierarchization of spaces, resources and values. The University as an institution that transmits values and promotes social change must educate on equality. From the Faculty of Health Sciences, specifically from the Degree in Occupational Therapy, gender is addressed as a social determinant of health, and the gender perspective, in a concrete and/or transversal way, in the curriculum. In this sense, in the 2012-2013 academic year, a module on Equality, Gender, Diversity and Health was implemented in the subject of Occupational Therapy, Functional Diversity and Quality of Life, aimed at students in the fourth year of the Degree. In the programming, training and awareness-raising activities were developed, analysing various contexts that generate exclusion and that threaten human rights. The main results were translated into an increase of Final Works linked to the topics covered. Likewise, the research initiated in the Degree had an impact on various areas of education and social responsibility. It is necessary to reflect on the role of the University as an institution promoting a more tolerant and egalitarian citizenship.