Gender based violence and Sexual harassment have been long standing issues in Sub Saharan African Universities. Gender inequality appears to be a strong invisible benchmark that prevents women from attaining the top positions in all professions and it is clear that women are not making sufficient progress in breaking it, cracking it, or even raising it significantly. Gender mainstreaming is a process that involves policies and documents on how to proffer solution, control and power for those have been marginalized. Implementation of equal opportunity, affirmative policies, and quotas in training programmes selection and promotion exercise had been jeopardised. This work hereby identified gender and sexual harassment and related problems by providing platforms to adequately address these problems especially in the area of Science and Technology in Nigeria Universities using Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Ondo state in Nigeria as one of agents of change in Gender Mainstreaming. The Centre for Gender Issues in Science and Technology (CEGIST) in FUTA was established to address the issues relating to gender gaps and disparities in social; cultural and economic opportunities between male and female in the University; review policies and regulations and also conduct research on sexual harassment. It has been recognized that sexual assault is the most unreported crime on University campuses affecting an upward of 12% of females. Hence, in a University of Science and Technology such as Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) where male students dominate, the figures are unimaginable. We therefore provide the strategies and activities of Centre for Gender Issues in Science and Technology (CEGIST) in tackling these issues.

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