In line with the celebration of Women’s month, West Visayas State University (WVSU) – Gender and Development Office (GAD) in partnership with Human Resource Management Office (HRMO) conducted a virtual gender sensitivity training to WVSU students and staff on March 30, 2021. 

To address the gender issues, the GAD Office invited Professor Moniq M. Muyargas, Director of the Gender and Development Program of the University of the Philippines-Visayas. 

 Prof. Muyargas discussed the key concepts of gender stereotyping, gender orientations, gender identities, and the things about the SOGIE bill. 

 “Women empowerment is hollow if gender bias is still an issue especially with the striking disparity across genders,” said by Prof. Muyargas. 

 “The problem will continue to resist no matter how many solutions we have,” she added.

 She further tackled the power of language as it is anchored in the way the society provokes gender biases.   She said that the language mirrors the reality and the reality mirrors the language, which implies that whatever language we are using to describe a gender or sex ,it depicts how we treat everyone we communicate with.   – ZenniaMirasol/CILPI