Academic associations are aware of the Machismo cases in the gym, but there is a long way to cut it, repeating the leaders of the assistant students who the audience heard.
SOffia Loureiro, one of the Vice President of the Academic Union of Lisbon (omenIn the field of education, he explains that although there are measures to combat positions such as Share photos without approvalViolence and harassment, the condemnation of these positions is not widespread in higher education.
Like other unions and student bonds, there is a gateway of unknown complaints.
“We girls know that things happen, but most of the time we do not feel comfortable with complaints. There are many things that we send under the carpet,” Kareena Duarti, from the Keimbra Academic Association.
For this reason, Sofia Laurero defended the creation of more internal regulations and gender equality policies active in associations, as well as the formative measures of leadersBecause “these things only end up in an informal way.”
“Sometimes we have a difficult way to reach these situations that we condemn with some situations that end up to reduce our growth in the interconnected life and the path that was very difficult for us to go,” justifies.
The head of the Academic Association at the University of Affiro is first defending the work of awareness, for students to “realize that there are consequences.” Joanna Rejadas believes that cases like what The removal of two leaders The Porto College of Engineering Students Association has become more frequent, and a warning of the reality currently still from harassment and sexual violence in colleges and academic festivals.
Alcohol consumption and abuses in academic bars
The explicit sexual exchange of all tents in the academic week of Aveiro was a decision that led to controversy, “To be a cultural rooted thing in these parties“.
Another example was the work done in conjunction with a nuclear student, who had prior training for the academic week, the period “What happens more than excess,, In addition to the volunteers, so that they can act in situations that are aware that there is harassment.
For Francisco Porto Fernandez, President of the Academic Federation in Porto (FAP), neutralizing tents in events such as burning tapes was also a goal: “There is something is a joke, and the other is the things that can contain a file Molecked muscle tradition With explicit sexual content. “
The leader believes that Machismo is still present in society as a whole, being the academy permeability For this reality. In the context of burning tapes, which will be held soon, the FAP president highlights the presence of 70 volunteers present in the box that works for transformations, which are trained to act in risk or violence situations.
This reality is contested by Beatrise Morgado, head of the feminists of the Faculty of Law in Porto (FEMFDUP), who is believed to be instead of volunteers, there must be a team of professionals in the field of psychology, medicine or nursing to provide support in the decision in the room: the “victim”, he said to the public.
The student also warns that it will be important to “not put profit before students” and not excessive burning, saying that “it is practically impossible to move inside the box in peak hours, which makes it difficult to obtain any preventive maneuver.“.
In an understanding of a president FEMFDUPThe association that required a focus in solidarity with the victims of sexual violence after the case in Feup, this moment created a less fertile environment for this type of position: “There is a fear of reaction and there is no feeling of great escape.”
FAP defended the creation of a “national mechanism, embodied in support through the phone line and/or access to the web address”, to file complaints. However, Beatriz Morgado revives this procedure, believes that more can be done through a double approach to prevention and fighting, Defending the establishment of a work plan by the Colleges Directorate, along with the straight of the University of Porto, the Porto Academic Union, and the participation of feminist groups.
Equality in student agencies
It was also indicated by equality in student agencies by the interconnected leaders whom the public heard as a positive practice by the relevant federations. However, there is still a long way to cut it.
Although in his interconnected experience, he claims that he was not weak to be a woman, Sofia Lorero noticed that “she is still rare in times of external representation, meetings with the parties or even informal times, women speak or go to the pulpit.”
“55 % of our female students, the level of representation in the federations and Even in He concluded with academic societies … We are still very young.
In 35 years of existence, the Porto Academic (FAP) had two women in the presidency – Anna Louisa Pereira and Anna Gabriella Capelhas. Lisbon was heads within ten years – Sofia, consarina riivo. The Academic Assembly of Kimbra, the oldest in the country, 138, three women in the twentieth century – Clara Rocha in 1976, Benna Paula Barros in 1988 and Zita Henrix in 1995.
Women’s students are currently chaired by more than 18 unions and academic association in the country: Joanna Rijdas is the representation of the academic association in Avero and Anna Beatores Calado of the Academic Society at Evora University.
Joanna Rejadas admits that she was afraid when she assumed the role of the president, because she is a woman: “Expectations are different, my way of speaking and acting is not the same as a former colleague. Boo more easy than that, and she is associated with things that she does not have what he does because sometimes the object is explained by the assertion that they were a junior, and he is not,” he said. “We have an additional responsibility to rethink these problems and use our positions so that others realize this is unacceptable.”
