Celaya, Gto., November 26, 2017.- As part of the program to visualize and raise awareness about violence that live women in our society, the University of Guanajuato (UG) supported the organization and development of the Journey for Girls and Women that had the motto "Stop violence."

Professors of the degree in Clinical Psychology of Campus Celaya-Salvatierra participated in the work table "Miradas de las y los jóvenes. Cuerpo y sexualidad", where they shared with students and academic community, reflections towards forms of violence that occur in different social ambiences, such as friendships, work, family, relationship.

One of the purposes this time was, to make visible the different forms and manifestations violence against women have. It was emphasized that this is not only physical, but economic, cultural, psychological and expresses in different forms, where the extreme manifestation of contempt for women is femicide, highlighted M. Jazmín Quintero, coordinator of the degree in Psychology.

When commemorating the International Day to Eradicate Violence against Women, the Collective Luna Celaya, coordinated by the Psychologist Idania Meza Herrera and the Division of Health Sciences of Health and Engineering of Campus Celaya-Salvatierra, led by Dr. Silvia del Carmen Delgado Sandoval, gave two talks about Hegemonic Masculinity and Communication in a Relationship, within the Journey for Girls and Women.

While opening the journey, Dr. Rocío Rosas Vargas, Director of the Department of Social Studies, reminded that living a violence-free life is a fundamental right of women, "we must educate ourselves in a violence-free life, and the starting point is to identify the forms it manifests and acquire tools to make a stand", she said and remarked: "the privileges of some are to empower others, and we cannot continue allowing that".

At the talk about hegemonic masculinity, Owen Joan Lázaro Celis, mentioned that the violence adopts numerous dimensions and seeks to submit the woman in all aspects of her life; affects her freedom, dignity, security and intimacy; it is multiform and manifests in different nuances, sometimes interrelated and other recurrent, be that in everyday or extraordinary situations, and affects all the people with whom they maintain certain affective bonds, some types of violence, such as women trafficking, cross international borders.

About the effects of violence, she said: women who experiment violence suffer a variety of health problems and diminish their capacity to participate in the public life. Violence against women affects families and communities from all generations and reinforces other kind of violence that remain in society.

María Corina Godoy Ortíz, a psychotherapist, spoke about the communication in a relationship, as a tool to increase mutual support and comprehension.

Students of the degree in Clinical Psychology, Sara Patricia Espino Jasso, Victoria Karime Ramírez Martínez and Diego Cano Lara, presented cases that have addressed as part of their professional practices, about child abuse and child violence.

M. Martha Elisa Gracia Sifuentes, mentioned that many women have been and are violence victims without identifying it as such, hence, it is important to make the forms of violence, visible, as well as its dimensions, and to continuously work until we create a world and "a University free of gender violence", she remarked.

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