Participating in cultural life: gender perspectives for a transformative territorial cultural management

Abstract

Gender inequalities have not only limited the opportunities of women and girls in their personal and collective development processes, but also their cultural and social life and the –sustainable– development processes of our societies. Gender as a sociocultural system structures and gives meaning and power to the roles and relationships of women and men; Not linking cultural policies and cultural and artistic management to gender inequalities is a limitation that hinders and prevents equal opportunities for people, limiting their own cultural life, this has been especially understood by various civil society organizations in the world, and also in our city, Valparaíso. Culture as a right, and its management processes, cannot stop asking questions and seeking new paths to address emergencies that, from a gender perspective, promote approaches and practices for transformative cultural management.