UPOU Office of Gender Concerns

The UP Open University Committee on Gender Concerns (CGC) was created in 2001 by virtue of Memorandum No. FL-01-028 primarily to deal with the prevention of or in response to cases or incidents of Sexual Harassment in the University. The UPOU Office of Gender Concerns (OGC) has since expanded its mandate to include gender advocacy and gender mainstreaming.

With the growing use of the internet by the public for various purposes, there is also a need to conduct research on gender and gender-related issues not only in the physical world but also in the cyber space which should then inform the University the need to develop interventions that can prevent and respond to such issues and concerns.

UPOU being the cybercampus of the University of the Philippines spearheads research on and interventions to gender and gender- related issues over the internet. The cyberspace being the virtual classroom or office of UPOU, OGC looks into issues and concerns in relation to gender such as discrimination, harassment, cyber bullying, exploitation, and the like, which need urgent attention and response.