Indigenous woman at a Peace March in Bogotá, Colombia.Fernando Vergara AP/Press Association Images.
On July, 24, 2016, the negotiating table between the government of Colombia and the FARC announced in Havana, Cuba, that the gender approach was to be included in the peace agreement. That day, the head of the government delegation, Humberto de La Calle, delivered a speech that included some typical gender-studies concepts:
"Sex is a given condition, whereas the gender approach touches on cultural conceptions that have generated structures in social behaviour that are historical, in the sense that they are non-deterministic social products. They are constructions covering patterns of behaviour and valuation assigned to each gender. Simone de Beauvoir said: 'one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman'. Today we may add: "one is not born, but rather becomes, a man".
