The creation of the Office for Gender Equality (OIX), which is now affiliated with the Office of the Vice-Recorate for Equality, Culture and Sport, was approved at the meeting of the Governing Council on 14 December 2006. The OIX has been operational since 10 March 2007.

The UDC anticipated the regulations imposed by Organic Law 4/2007, of 12 April 2007, which inserts an additional twelfth provision into the Organic Law on Universities (LOU). This provision, under the heading "Equality Units", states that "universities shall have equality units among their organizational structures to develop functions related to the principle of equality between women and men".