Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity (Argentina)
The Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity 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.
The ministry overtook the responsibilities of the National Institute for Women, which existed from 2017 to 2019.Structure
The Ministry is subdivided into the following dependencies:
- Secretariat of Equality and Diversity Policies
- *Undersecretariat of Equality Policies
- *Undersecretariat of Diversity Policies
- Secretariat of Policies against Gender-based Violence
- *Undersecretariat of Integral Approach to Gender-based Violence
- *Undersecretariat of Special Programs against Gender-based Violence
- *Undersecretariat of Training, Investigation and Cultural Policies for Equality
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. In April 2020 the government announced plans to house the whole ministry in the offices at Cochabamba 54, in the barrio of San Telmo.
