Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity (Argentina)

The Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity (Spanish: Ministerio de las Mujeres, Géneros y Diversidad; MMGyD) is a ministry of the Argentine Government tasked with overseeing the country's public policies on issues affecting women and gender and sexual minorities. The ministry was created in 2019 as part of President Alberto Fernández's cabinet; the first and current minister is Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta.[2]

Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity
Ministerio de las Mujeres, Géneros y Diversidad
Ministry overview
Formed2019 (2019)
Preceding Ministry
  • National Institute for Women
JurisdictionArgentina
HeadquartersBalcarce 186, Buenos Aires
Annual budget$ 6,204,800,623 (2021)[1]
Minister responsible
Parent departmentGovernment of Argentina
Websiteargentina.gob.ar/generos
Argentina
This article is part of a series on the
politics and government of
Argentina
Executive
Legislative
Judiciary
Law
Administrative divisions
Recent elections
Foreign relations
 Argentina portal

The ministry overtook the responsibilities of the National Institute for Women (Instituto Nacional de la Mujer; INAM), which existed from 2017 to 2019.[3]

Structure

The Ministry is subdivided into the following dependencies:[4]

  • Secretariat of Equality and Diversity Policies (Secretaría de Políticas de Igualdad y Diversidad)
    • Undersecretariat of Equality Policies (Subsecretaría de Políticas de Igualdad)
    • Undersecretariat of Diversity Policies (Subsecretaría de Políticas de Diversidad)
  • Secretariat of Policies against Gender-based Violence (Secretaría de Políticas contra la Violencia por Razones de Género)
    • Undersecretariat of Integral Approach to Gender-based Violence (Subsecretaría de Abordaje Integral de la Violencia por Razones de Género)
    • Undersecretariat of Special Programs against Gender-based Violence (Subsecretaría de Programas Especiales contra la Violencia por Razones de Género)
    • Undersecretariat of Training, Investigation and Cultural Policies for Equality (Subsecretaría de Formación, Investigación y Políticas Culturales para la Igualdad)

Headquarters

The Ministry's offices are currently located across three other government facilities, the main one being the one located at Balcarce 186, in the Buenos Aires barrio of Monserrat.[5] In April 2020 the government announced plans to house the whole ministry in the offices at Cochabamba 54, in the barrio of San Telmo.[6]

List of ministers
No. Minister Party Term President
1 Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta Patria Grande Front 10 December 2019 – incumbent Alberto Fernández

See also

References
  1. "Presupuesto 2021". Ministerio de Economía (in Spanish). 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  2. Timerman, Jordana (3 February 2020). "Can Argentina's Feminists Change Government?". Americas Quarterly. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  3. "Ley de Ministerios / Decreto 7/2019". Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina (in Spanish). 10 December 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  4. "El Ministerio de las Mujeres, Géneros y Diversidad oficializó su estructura". Tiempo Argentino (in Spanish). 20 December 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  5. "Ministerio de las Mujeres, Géneros y Diversidad". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  6. "El Ministerio de Mujeres, Género y Diversidad tendrá su propia sede en San Telmo". Infobae (in Spanish). 8 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.