Annual Gender Sensitization Plan
In addition to creating a center for women’s empowerment and gender equality, gender equality policies are one of the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s priorities across the entire university and enable specific achievements with the action from all areas. The pioneering nature of this commitment was recognised by the UNESCO chair programme, which named Amrita’s Professor Dr. Bhavani Rao as India’s first UNESCO chair for women empowerment and gender equality. We look at the measures Amrita has been bringing a positive change in mentalities and practices supporting equity among genders within the University and in our outreach.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham acknowledges we share certain values and principles, such as equality, inclusion, respect for human dignity, fairness and justice for all. We also acknowledge the support for a diversity of talent. We renew our commitment in teaching future generations and being a role model. We also commit to counteract to any existing inequalities.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, through its proactive faculty, staff and student programs, will annually look into the following:
- Promoting communication with respect for human dignity and social responsibility.
- Allow the recognition of multidimensional representations of women and men.
- Promote communications that represent unbiased representations of gender equity.
- Conduct workshops that promote diversity and gender-sensitive communication for members and employees
- A senior role in every campus whom faculty and students can reach out in matters of need related to gender-related communication.
- Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for implementation and their follow-ups.
- Conducting regular awareness-raising activities among students and staff
- In classes, faculty members promote working together, fair representations for leadership roles, facilitate impartial participation, gender balance in team projects when possible, promote students meeting with faculty, having open and closed sessions with faculty members of the appropriate gender for related scenarios, complaints and counseling during class hours and at hostels.
- A network of gender equality advisers facilitated by our Center for Women Empowerment and Gender Equality.
- Balanced gender quota in hiring committees
- Our student code of conduct promotes gender parity at the governance level.
