The workshop on ‘Gender Equity and Equality” organized by the center for Gender Equity and Equality, Uva Wellassa University was successfully conducted from September 18, 2017 to September 20, 2017 at Riverside Holiday Inn, Badulla. The awareness workshop was organized as an initiative step to create gender sensitive environment within the university community. This workshop was conducted as two separate parallel sessions for selected staff members and student representatives. Prof. Maithree Wickramasinghe, Dr. Wijaya Jayathilake and Dr. Harini Amarasooriya participated as the resource persons for the workshop from the standing committee, UGC and Prof. Kamala Liyanage participated as a resource person for the student workshop.