Gloria Bonder

Gloria Bonder (born , Buenos Aires) is an Argentine psychologist, researcher and gender activist. She founded the Center for Women's Studies (CEM) in 1979 and the Graduate Specialization and Women's Studies at the Psychology Faculty at the University of Buenos Aires. She is also principal of the Gender, Society and Policy Department, FLACSO. She became co-ordinator of the International Working Group on Women and ICT field of the United Nations and principal of the podium "Women, Science and Technology" in UNESCO. She is a member of the advisory board of Global Alliance for Information Technology and Communication and Development (UN GAID).

Biography Gloria Bonder completed her studies in the University of Buenos Aires and became psychologist in 1970. She earned her PhD in Gender and Education at the University of Cambridge. In 1979, during the last dictatorship which ruled her country and with precarious security she founded the Center for Women's Studies (CEM), an organisation that played a major role in the reorganisation of the feminist movement in Argentina.

Bonder also founded the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Specialization and Women's Studies at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires and directed it until 1999. In 1999 she was the co-ordinator of the UNESCO's podium Women, Science and Technology in Latin America, preparatory for the World Conference of Science, held in Budapest that year.

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