National Women's Service

The National Women's Service (Spanish: Servicio Nacional de la Mujer), or SERNAM is a public service in Chile, a functionally decentralized organization, with its own funding, which is part of the cabinet-level Ministry of Planning and Cooperation under the President of Chile, created January 3, 1991 by the Law N° 19,023, with the goal of promoting the equality of men and women.

National Women's Service
Servicio Nacional de la Mujer
AbbreviationSERNAM
Formation1991
FounderSoledad Alvear
TypeGO
Legal statusService
PurposePromoting the equality of men and women.
Professional title
Servicio Nacional de la Mujer
Location
Region served
Chile

SERNAM's founding mission was to collaborate with the executive in the study and proposal of general plans and measures in order that women may enjoy equality of rights and opportunities with men, in the process of political, social, economic, and cultural development of Chile.

Organization

The upper-level direction, technical and administrative, of SERNAM is charged to the Director of Service, who has the rank of Minister of State, like an Interior Minister or Finance Minister. Its first Director was Soledad Alvear.

In each of the regions in which Chile is divided a Regional Directorship of the National Women's Service exists with its headquarters in the capital city of each respective region. There are 13 regional directorships.

Minister Directors
Minister-DirectorPartyPeriodPresident
Soledad Alvear ValenzuelaDC3 January 1991Patricio Aylwin Azócar
Josefina BilbaoInd11 March 1994Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Adriana Delpiano PuelmaPPD11 March 2000Ricardo Lagos Escobar
Cecilia Pérez DíazInd11 March 2003Ricardo Lagos Escobar
Laura Albornoz PollmanDC11 March 2006Michelle Bachelet Jeria
Carmen Andrade LaraPS20 October 2009Michelle Bachelet Jeria
Carolina Schmidt ZaldívarInd11 March 2010Sebastián Piñera Echenique
Loreto Seguel KingInd22 April 2013Sebastián Piñera Echenique
Claudia PascualPC11 March 2014Michelle Bachelet Jeria

References

    Further reading
    • Todaro, Rosalba C (1996). Equal opportunities plan for Chilean women: 1994 - 1999. Chile: Servicio Nacional de la Mujer (SERNAM).



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