Conciliation and co-responsibilty
Work-life balance is one of the keys to achieving greater equality between women and men in today's society. The Universidade de Vigo must become a reference for society as a whole, in order to place the "sustainability of life" at the centre of our institution and thus humanise it.
Guide for the conciliation of personal, family and work life of the UVigo staff
This informative guide compiles the rights and possibilities available to the UVigo staff to balance their personal, family, and work life. The guide is for guidance purposes and should be consulted with the appropriate services in each situation, according to the circumstances and applicable legislation.
Lactation rooms
Lactation rooms are a comfortable and private space for exclusive use to breastfeed or express milk in peace and quiet. They are places with ventilation and warm lighting and have suitable furniture and appliances that allow milk to be conserved.
Following WHO recommendations, at the Universidade de Vigo we have this option available for those who choose to breastfeed and need to use this resource on the three university campuses.
Ourense Campus
Rosalía de Castro Library (entry hall)
Pontevedra Campus
Faculty of Fine Arts (first floor)
School of Forestry Engineering (ground floor)
Vigo Campus
Edificio Filomena Dato (second floor)
CINBIO Olimpia Valencia Building (Module 4, 3.º piso)
Ecimat (Thinking Corner, first floor)
Positive actions
- Positive action to include own teaching, research and transfer calls for proposals
- Reduction of teaching time due to childbirth or adoption, foster care or adoption
Documents
- Agreement of the Government Counsil on equality and conciliation measures at the Universidade de Vigo
- Paid pregnancy leave
- Recommendation to apply criteria that favour work-life balance for the teaching and research staff to teaching schedules
- Good practice guide for universities «Teleworking and co-responsible work-life balance in times of COVID-19»
- Rules for the elaboration of the University of Vigo 2020 POD
Equal masculinities
Homes de coidado
Collaborative publication promoted by UVigo Equality Unit, within the framework of the III Plan for Equality between Women and Men of the Universidade de Vigo (2020-2024) with the financial support of the Department of Social Policy and Equality of the Xunta de Galicia through the Corresponsables Plan. Homes de coidado aims to provide a resource to promote reflection on caring masculinities in the university community as a whole, with men as the main protagonists and recipients.
More resources
- Resources to go further into masculinities
- International and Interuniversitary Academic Conferences «Democratising care and domestic life: The role of men with gender perspective»
Proposal designed and driven by the equality services of the universities of A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo, with the support of the Consellería of Social Policy and Equality of the Xunta de Galicia, through the funds of the Plan Corresponsables.- Recordings of the sessions (available in Spanish)
- Feminism for everybody
A series of sound capsules in which 13 men from the university community think over masculinity and the role of men in the struggle for equality. - Campaign «Masculinity fits equality».
Reports and other interesting documents
This section includes the studies written by the three Galician public universities, with the support of the Xunta de Galicia, about co-responsibility, the distribution of domestic work and care in Galicia as part of the implementation of the Corresponsables Plan 2023:
- Estudo sobre a calidade da conciliación da vida familiar e laboral nas relacións colectivas de traballo en Galicia-Universidade de Vigo
- Coidados e corresponsabilidade en Galicia. Análise desde unha perpectiva de xénero-Universidade da Coruña
- Resiliencia como factor protector da depresión en persoas coidadoras-Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Further information:
Equality Unit
Edificio Ernestina Otero
As Lagoas, Marcosende
36310 Vigo
igualdade@uvigo.gal
+34 986 813 419