UGC guidelines for setting up Centres for Women Studies

Why In news?

• The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued guidelines for setting up Centres for Women Studies in colleges and across universities with the aim to build a more inclusive society.
• Women studies centres will have a particular focus on most marginalised and disadvantaged women in the society.
• These include women from Schedule Caste and Tribes, women with disabilities, women living in unsafe environments.

Key features: –

• The centre must have a balanced, critical and comprehensive understanding of India’s socio-economic realities and governance.
• The main components will include women’s contribution to society and social processes with the perception of their own lives, the broader social reality and their aspirations and struggles.
• The centre will focus on building new knowledge on women from national and global perspectives, and also on developing a curriculum in women studies in order to meet the diverse needs of Indian women with the focus to create an inclusive society.
• The evaluation of the centres will be on teaching, research, extension activities, seminars, workshops, special lectures, field action projects and action research, documentation and archive on women, partnership with other UGC centres and non-UGC centres, government schemes and NGOs.
• The centre will also suggest methods to build a conducive environment for women to take up positions of leadership in diverse sectors, conduct evidence based research on women and economic development, and suggest methods to promote inclusion of women in development of all sectors.

(Education)(Indian express, India today)

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