National Women's Service

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.

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. Its acting Minister-Director is María Carolina Schmidt Zaldívar.

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-Director Party Period President
Soledad Alvear Valenzuela DC 01.03.1991 Patricio Aylwin Azócar
Josefina Bilbao Ind 03.11.1994 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Adriana Delpiano Puelma PPD 03.11.2000 Ricardo Lagos Escobar
Cecilia Pérez Díaz Ind 11.03.2003 Ricardo Lagos Escobar
Laura Albornoz Pollman DC 03.11.2006 Michelle Bachelet Jeria
Carmen Andrade Lara PS 10.20.2009 Michelle Bachelet Jeria
Carolina Schmidt Zaldívar Ind 03.11..2010 Sebastián Piñera Echenique

References

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