1. "IAU XIV General Conference: Higher Education and the Global Agenda
- Alternatives Paths to the Future”
27-30 November 2012
Puerto Rico
Session Title: Higher Education and the Challenge of Gender
Equality: Advances in the Inter-American Space
EMULIES innovative and integrated response of the Inter-
American Organization for Gender Equity in Higher Education
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2. EMULIES in the context of the Inter-American Organization
for Higher Education (OUI-IOHE)
Based on the results of a consultation to a group of 30
women leaders of higher education institutions (HEI)
from 14 countries in the Americas about previous work
conducted by the school of the Americas.
The Board of Directors, held in San Luis Potosí, in
November of 2011, declared the year 2012: Year of the
Women Leaders in Higher Education Institutions of the
Americas.
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3. EMULIES is the result of a process of dialogue and exchange
of a core of University leaders, academics and researchers
that identified the following needs and demands.
While the last 15 years have been marked by the rise of some
leading women to the highest posts of driving, HEIs limitations
to the participation of women under conditions of equality still
continue.
The base information is scattered and disjointed, which makes
difficult the monitoring of the position of women in bodies of
Government of the HEI.
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4. EMULIES: Space for Women Leaders of Higher Education
Institutions of the Americas
- EMULIES constitutes a space for reflection, exchange and
academic production on university
management, innovative, inclusive and socially
responsible, constituted by a group of female leaders of
higher education institutions (HEI) under the auspices of the
Inter-American University Organization (OUI).
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5. The specific objectives of EMULIES are the following:
 (a) To contribute to the strengthening of the leadership
and participation of women in decision-making in the
field of higher education.
 (b) To provide rigorous and up-to-date information about
the situation of women in the HEIs, in particular with
regard to their participation in decision-making.
 (c) To influence higher education policies that promote
equity, specially gender equity.
Four areas of work: research, training, cooperation and
exchange, and the dissemination and communication.
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6. 1. Working Shaft: Research
 Index of gender equity in higher education institutions
in the Americas.
 Generations pioneers.
 Leadership and gender equity.
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7. 2. Working Shaft: Training
 Certificate in gender and University leadership.
 Workshops for women leaders from academia and
students.
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8. 3. Working Shaft: Cooperation and Exchange
 Strategic links Fund Raising Program.
 Mentoring: leadership in higher education.
 Academic mobility.
 Cooperation and participation of women.
 Articulation EMULIES with similar initiatives at the
international, regional and global levels.
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9. 4. Dissemination and communication
 Directory of women leaders.
 Pilot plan of institutional networking.
 ICT and dissemination.
 Innovative management of higher education and gender
equity.
 OUI establishment award ¨Leadership and equity¨.
 Women's participation in the conduction of HEIs in the
Americas
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10. Results of EMULIES meetings:
1. Declaration of Mexico. First Meeting Space of Women
Leaders of the HEI of the Americas (Polytechnic Institute of
Mexico, June 2011), 30 women leaders participating, 25
HEIs, 12 countries represented.
2. Declaration of San José. Costa Rica
University, Towards the construction of EMULIES (October
2011), 30 women leaders, 25 HEIs, 14 countries
represented.
3. Integration of a team monitoring the agreements to
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11. 4. Release of the virtual space of EMULIES (pilot phase).
5. Preparatory meeting to the II meeting of women leaders
of the HEI of the Americas, Brazil 2012
(Florianópolis, Brazil, December 2011).
6. Realization of the second meeting of EMULIES (Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, April 2012). 48 women leaders from 11
countries of the region.
8. Call for the Third Meeting of EMULIES in 2013.
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12. Latest Advances
 Launch of a training program in Gender and
University Leadership by COLAM, in September
2012
 It has a rigorous theoretical foundation but, at the
same time, a potential inmediate application in the
headquarters of participating institutions, with
emphasis in a framework for exchange and
collaborative learning and oriented towards network
creation and cooperative work.
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13. Promotion of the Observatory for Gender Equality in
HEI in the Americas
 There is a need to construct an indicator
system, allowing to monitor the position of women in
the governmental instances of HEI
 Three types of assessments:
1. Political will assessment (express political will of
university authorities)
2. Process assessment (baseline, sex-disaggregated
information available)
3. Result assessment (achievements)
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14. Mission to China
 October 18th to 26th, 2012, in the context of the China-
Latin America Project, an iniciative co-founded by the
OUI and the China Education Association for
International Exchange (CEAIE)
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