Gender and Safe Community Office

At Tecnológico de Monterrey, we are working together with the entire community to progress towards gender equality and to make our Institution increasingly safe and free from gender violence, enabling us all to reach our full potential.

Advancements in the commitments to prevent and address gender violence

Monterrey, Nuevo León. October 23^rd, 2020

Dear Tec community:

On September 23, Tecnológico de Monterrey established four commitments to the Tec community, which define our Institution’s efforts to prevent and address gender violence:

Publication of the new gender violence protocol
Protocol dissemination campaign
Increase in the number of Support and Orientation Centers
Strengthen and intensify the training, awareness and education program with a gender perspective

Advancements:

• Launch of the #TecSeguro project (first phase)

On October 9, we formed a large team of 50 professionals, academics, experts and support staff to bring this project to fruition. It responds to the need to establish precise actions to strengthen our Institution, generate greater confidence and foster a safe community in relation to gender violence issues. We will be able to oversee the fulfillment of the aforementioned commitments through #TecSeguro.

• New protocol to address gender violence

After almost three years’ experience with our current “Protocol for Gender Violence Prevention and Intervention Actions”, we embarked on performing a thorough review of this protocol. As a result, we now have a new version that contemplates diverse improvements, which were integrated after listening to student groups and collectives, in academic, legal and psychological settings. The aim of all these efforts is to reinforce our process of addressing and resolving cases. On Tuesday, October 20, we shared the proposal for the new protocol with students, faculty and collaborators, so that they could review it and offer comments and feedback. Through their involvement and listening to the voices of the Tec community, we will be announcing the official version of the new Protocol for addressing gender violence in November.

• Opening of Support centers (first phase)

To reinforce the structure of our 11 on-campus Support Centers, during this first phase we will be expanding our support network to 16 centers located in: Aguascalientes, Mexico City, Chihuahua, Estado de México, Guadalajara, Hidalgo, León, Monterrey, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Santa Fe, Sinaloa, Sonora Norte, Toluca, as well as the Tec High School in Monterrey. Coverage of these vacancies is already in progress. Please note that during this phase and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, support will be provided online for the rest of the campuses.

• Psychological and legal support

According to what we heard through our students’ voices, this point is of utmost importance. We are currently developing and integrating psychological and legal support mechanisms for those who are participating in a process that requires the activation of the Protocol. We will provide further details in the next report.

• Education and training

We have determined that all directors, faculty and collaborators must complete the Human Dignity Awareness Program during this academic period. It consists of six online courses: human dignity, unconscious bias, gender perspective, diversity and inclusion, gender violence prevention, and gender equality. To date, 5,668 collaborators have completed this training program.

We have also set in motion a pilot training and reflection program with a group of 880 students, activated on the Canvas platform. This will be the starting point for offering this training program to all the Institution’s students, both male and female.

We will continue to work to create and adapt content to make relevant training courses and mechanisms available to the entre Tec community, together with discussion tables, forums, webinars, and local and national sessions in which these issues are addressed.

We would like to reiterate that at Tec de Monterrey we are taking care of improving and evolving our processes and protocols, to assure their contribution to the creation of a culture of respect with a gender perspective, with new instruments and by listening to the community, without whose help we would not be able make these changes. We want to be equal to the challenge and to the cultural change our country and the world so badly need, thereby contributing to the construction of safer, more inclusive societies. We will continue to communicate our progress in these topics on December 10, International Human Rights Day.

Juan Pablo Murra Lascurain
Undergaduated and Graduated Rector’s Office

Víctor Gutiérrez Aladro
Rector of Operations

Inés Sáenz Negrete
Vice-President of the Inclusion, Social Impact and Sustainability Department

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Gender Equality

Gender equality means that men and women enjoy the same condition and have the same opportunities to enjoy the full exercise of their human rights and reach their full potential.

Equality does not mean that men and women are the same, but that the rights, responsibilities and opportunities they have do not depend on the gender with which they were born.

Gender equality plan

We have developed a set of measures so that equal treatment and opportunities for women and men can form an integral part of our Institution’s academic and administrative environments.

We have joined the UN Women’s global movement HeForShe, undertaking to deploy nine strategies to contribute to gender equality and gender violence prevention.

The objective of this Committee is to assure progress towards gender equality in our Institution’s executive positions. Our Institution is led by the Presidency of Tecnológico de Monterrey and is comprised of women and men directors of our four institutions,

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This Committee contributes to the execution, follow-up and enhancement of the Gender Equality Plan and is made up of academics and collaborators from all the regions of Tec de Monterrey.

This award recognizes the career, talent and contributions of women within the Tec Community, apart from making their contributions in social civic, political, economic, sports and cultural settings both heard and seen.

Go to Women´s Awards

This initiative, promoted in conjunction with the Eugenio Garza Lagüera Entrepreneurship Institute (IEEGL), consolidates the advancement and development of women students and entrepreneurs and their enterprises in the global ecosystem.

We contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals #5– Gender Equality and #10– Reduced Inequalities.

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We form part of the National Network of Institutions of Higher Education-Paths for Gender Equality, which seeks to share experiences regarding the mainstreaming and institutionalization of the gender perspective. We also participate in the core work of the Equality Observatory.

Consult the repository of academic contributions related to gender issues and participate to keep them current.

Student statistics by gender

Find out about the statistics report by students´s gender, created by the Institutional Information and Intelligency Direction.

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Statistics report by students´s gender 2020

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Gender violence prevention and intervention

The safety and wellbeing of all our students, educators and collaborators are our priority.

Tecnológico de Monterrey has a zero-tolerance policy for gender violence and all behaviors that infringe upon people’s dignity.

We strictly enforce the Gender Violence Prevention and Intervention Action Protocol and the regulations that protect the human dignity of and respect for all parties involved in cases.

What is gender violence?

It comprises acts or omissions, deemed violent or discriminatory by reason of gender or sex, carried out by a person or a group of people who are members of the university community, on another member or other members of the university community, resulting in physical, sexual, psychological or moral harm.

What should you do in the event of gender violence?

Support centers

The Support Centers will provide you with psychological help and orientation about what to do in the event of a gender violence situation. Go to your nearest service center: we’re here for you.

Laguna, Monterrey, Saltillo, Tampico: Campus Monterrey, Congress Center, 2^nd floor, 226-E-1 Office.
Santa Fe: Campus Santa Fe, Student Center, 1^st floor.
Ciudad de México: LiFE Wellness and Advisory Area
Estado de México, Esmeralda: 9^th building, CCI, 1^st floor (lobby)
Irapuato, León, Morelia, Querétaro: Campus Querétaro, 9^th building, 2^nd floor
Aguascalientes, Colima, Guadalajara, Obregón, Sinaloa, Sonora Norte, Zacatecas: Campus Guadalajara, Wellness Center, 1^st floor, (lobby), ext. 4097
Chiapas, Cuernavaca, Hidalgo, Puebla, Veracruz: Campus Puebla, Building 1, office 1207
Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez: Campus Chihuahua, Student Center, higher floor.
San Luis Potosí: 1^st building, level 2, east, LiFE/CVC Offices
Toluca: Undergraduate building (between 2nd and 3rd building), 2^nd floor.

What is the Gender Violence Protocol?

It is a mechanism for achieving a permanent culture of respect, free from gender violence, assuring a transparent, collegial process that protects the dignity and integrity of everyone involved in a gender violence case.

Gender Violence Protocol

Seven-step guide. Protocol for action against gender violence

Interactive video explaining the complete Gender Violence Protocol

Behavior Guide

Join Us! Campaign to stop violence against women

Rectoría del Tec de Monterrey iluminada en color naranja

For the second year in a row, we have joined this United Nations campaign, seeking to create awareness and reaffirm our personal and institutional commitment in order to have a safe and free gender violence community.

In order to prevent and to eradicate dynamics that foster inequality and gender violence, our all year long work as an university community is required.

Find out how you can join us:

PDF | Join Us 2020 Campaign

Join Us 2020! Activities

Día Internacional de la eliminación de la violencia contra la mujer

Gender violence prevention

Achieving a culture of respect, free from gender violence, requires the commitment of each and every one of our students, faculty, collaborators and other members of the Tec Community.

We have diverse actions in place for raising awareness and providing education for all the members of our Institution.

We contribute to the Latin American Network for Gender, Equality and Sexual Diversity.
www.rugeds.udual.org

We participate in the Observatory of the National Network of Institutions of Higher Education-Paths for Gender Equality, RENIES ANUIES.
www.renies.cieg.unam.mx

Six online awareness courses for all professors and collaborators. Available at Mi Espacio > Success Factors > Mi Plan de Desarrollo.

Semester-long courses on Disciplinary Updating (CADi) and workshops for professors and collaborators.

Periodical workshops and conferences held on the campuses to address topics related to the prevention of gender violence and digital violence, and achieving healthy relationships, among others.

Support network for survivors of gender violence with the participation of student volunteers.

Open Dialogue Forums where the diverse voices of all the members of the Tec Community come together to find a set of actions to prevent and address gender violence.

Participation in national and international networks for the prevention of gender violence.

We form part of the Culture of Respect program, which brings together 34 universities in the United States and Canada, committed to eradicating sexual violence on their campuses. www.cultureofrespect.org

Human Dignity Center