{"id":127319,"date":"2019-06-06T16:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=127319"},"modified":"2019-06-10T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T12:28:47","slug":"127319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/06\/06\/127319\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Minister says gender policy will be drafted and implemented in curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Education Minister Antonio Pe\u00f1a Mirabal says that the drafting of gender equality policy and new actions in the education curriculum is a go. He said that he will not back down and the only way the measure will be dropped is \u201cif President Danilo Medina fires me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pe\u00f1a Mirabal said that the departmental order on gender policy follows a constitutional mandate sustained in Article 39 of the Dominican Constitution. Art. 39 reads: \u201cAll necessary steps shall be taken to ensure the eradication of inequality and discrimination due to gender.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pe\u00f1a Mirabal said this action had been agreed in the Pact for Education that was signed by all sectors of society. Among those signing the Pact were the representative of the Conference of the Dominican Episcopate, Monsignor Ram\u00f3n Ben\u00edtez \u00c1ngeles Fern\u00e1ndez; the president of CODUE, Reverend Fidel Lorenzo; the president of the Union of Catholic Schools, Jos\u00e9 Cuello; Lester Flaquer, the president of a Christian private schools association. These organizations now oppose the announced drafting of gender policy by the Ministry of Education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In statements to the TV program Hoy Mismo, Pe\u00f1a Mirabal categorically denied that this motion is about instating gender ideology. He said: “It is about gender equity. That means that boys and girls are taught that they have the same rights and the same opportunities. I don’t see where the evil is in that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Ministry of Education is going to implement policies of equality between boys and girls, equal opportunities, rights and duties between the two sexes. That this is to guarantee that 99% of the janitors not be women, and that 99% of the porters not be men, as is the situation today,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Education Minister Antonio Pe\u00f1a Mirabal says that the drafting of gender equality policy and new actions in the education curriculum is a go. He said that he will not back down and the only way the measure will be dropped is \u201cif President Danilo Medina fires me.\u201d Pe\u00f1a Mirabal said that the departmental order on … <\/p>\n

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