The Gender Perspective in Managing Knowledge through Cross-curricular Studies in Higher Education1

This article investigates how universities, as transmitters of social awareness, should reflect the problem of inequality between the sexes in educational processes. It should also reflect gender studies in managing knowledge through cross-curricular studies. The European Higher Education Area has been emphasizing the need to encourage “transverse” or cross-curricular competences, primarily those relating to citizenship skills. In this context, it is evident that the twenty-first century should constitute a historical period fundamental to the process of acquisition social and legal rights for women under conditions of equality with men.