The Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity (; MMGyD) was 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 one of the initial measures of President Alberto Fernández; the first minister was

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. The ministry overtook the responsibilities of the National Institute for Women (''Instituto Nacional de la Mujer''; INAM), which existed from 2017 to 2019. The ministry was dissolved in December 2023 following an announcement by President

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after his inauguration. The ministry became a provisional

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until June 2024, when it was definitely closed. The Milei administration alleged the ministry was a "politicized entity" in order to justify its suppression. The government also alleged that "This organization was created and used by the previous administration to propagate and impose an ideological agenda", stating also that "none of its actions resulted in the lowering of the number of crimes against women".

Structure

The Ministry was subdivided into the following dependencies: *Secretariat of Equality and Diversity Policies (''Secretaría de Políticas de Igualdad y Diversidad'') **Undersecretariat of Equality Policies (''Subsecretaría de Políticas de Igualdad'') **Undersecretariat of Diversity Policies (''Subsecretaría de Políticas de Diversidad'') *Secretariat of Policies against Gender-based Violence (''Secretaría de Políticas contra la Violencia por Razones de Género'') **Undersecretariat for a Comprehensive Approach to Gender-based Violence (''Subsecretaría de Abordaje Integral de la Violencia por Razones de Género'') **Undersecretariat of Special Programmes against Gender-based Violence (''Subsecretaría de Programas Especiales contra la Violencia por Razones de Género'') **Undersecretariat of Training, Research and Cultural Policies for Equality (''Subsecretaría de Formación, Investigación y Políticas Culturales para la Igualdad'')

Headquarters

The Ministry's offices were located across three other government facilities, the main one being the one located at Balcarce 186, in the

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'' of Monserrat. In April 2020 the government announced plans to house the whole ministry in the offices at Cochabamba 54, in the ''barrio'' of

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List of ministers

References

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Structure

Headquarters

List of ministers

See also

References

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