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Gender Equality
September 26, 2022
Gender Awareness Workshops at KDU 2022
The KDU Centre for Gender Equity and Equality conducted a number of workshops to increase awareness of gender equity and equality among KDU community. With the support of faculty representatives of CGEE, separate workshops were conducted at seven faculties from 06/09/2022 to 22/09/2022.The main objective of these workshops was to enhance the knowledge of the participants on the concept of gender e
September 22, 2022
A WEBINAR ON ‘UNDERSTANDING GENDER EQUITY AND EQUALITY’
A webinar on ‘Understanding Gender Equity and Equality’ was organized by the FMSH under the initiative of the Committee on Gender Equity of Equality (CGEE). This was a result of conducting informative sessions by each faculty of the university on Gender Equity and Equality in order to enhance the knowledge of the academic and non-academic staff of the Faculties on the said matter.The resource
March 26, 2022
International Women’s Day Celebrations 2022
KDU Centre for Gender Equity and Equality has passed yet another milestone on Tuesday, 08th March 2022 Celebrating International Women’s Day on the theme of ‘Break the Bias’ to promote gender equity and equality today for a sustainable tomorrow. This event was successfully conducted at KDU – FGS auditorium from 0900 to 1100 hrs.The event was graced by Major General Milinda Peiris RWP RSP V
March 15, 2022
3rd Guest Lecture – “Women’s Contribution in the Construction Industry for a Sustainable Tomorrow”
Women play a vital role in many sectors, although the construction industry has relatively less women in the workforce than other sectors, those involved love and revere their job. The Department of Quantity Surveying was honoured and humbled to have a pioneer and a living legend grace the third lecture on “Women’s Contribution in the Construction Industry for a Sustainable Tomorrow” in the
March 10, 2022
TikTok Challenge Competition on the Celebration of International Women’s Day 2022
Centre for Gender Equity and Equality (CGEE) of KDU has conducted a ‘Tik-Tok competition for KDU undergraduates based on what Gender Equity and Equality meant to them. There were 8 shortlisted Tik-Toks produced by Intake 36, 37, 38 and 39 day scholars and officer cadets on the theme “#BreakTheBias”. After the screening of TikToks, all the participants were asked to vote for the best three en
