The purple door: a space for university transformation to address gender violence

Abstract

Gender violence is a serious social, rights and health problem that affects millions of people in the world, especially women and girls. It constitutes any act or threat of violence, based on the unequal exercise of power between men and women and that causes or can cause harm in any sphere of an individual's life. It can take various forms of expression: physical, verbal, psychological, sexual, economic, social, symbolic. Cuba does not escape this global reality, which is why programs and strategies are developed, while there is a political will to shorten the gaps of discrimination, betting on a social project based on principles of equality and equity, which is expressed in the Constitution of the Republic. In this context, the Cuban Medical University has the responsibility of being one of the institutions that creates awareness and humanism, through the interrelation of its different processes: teaching, research and university extension, while these are enriched and applied to the search for solutions to the problems of society and nations in terms of health.