Rodna perspektiva u nastavi na Univerzitetu u Beogradu
Gender Perspective in the Courses at Belgrade University

Author(s): Gordana Daša Duhaček, Milica Miražić
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: TARGET; Gender Equality Plan; female academics; academic educational content; gender studies
Summary/Abstract: As part of the TARGET (Taking a Reflexive Approach to Gender Equality for Institutional Transformation) project, the University of Belgrade adopted a Plan for Achieving Gender Equality in 2019. The initial assumptions for formulating this plan were to collect and present data that provided a statistically accurate overview of both student and teacher populations from a gender equality perspective. These data are valuable and the University of Belgrade will continue the quantitative representation of the position of women in its academic institutions. However, in order to achieve gender equality, it is important to go one step further than increasing the number of women in higher education. Throughout the history of the struggle for their rights, when women have demanded the right to education, this right has implied not only that they have free access to education, but also that they are able to analyse systematically and review the educational content that they, as well as their male colleagues, adopt. In this respect, academic educational content is of particular importance. Its critical rethinking has been one of the goals of establishing academic programmes for women’s studies, or gender studies, around the world. The paper presents the content of the programmes of the University of Belgrade, considering whether, to what extent, and in which manner, courses and programmes in the field of women’s studies and gender studies are represented. In addition, the paper also discusses the ways in which these programmes have been institutionalised within the University of Belgrade, and which non-institutional programmes have had a significant role in this still ongoing process.

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