| National Women's Service | |
| Native Name: | Servicio Nacional de la Mujer |
| Abbreviation: | SERNAM |
| Formation: | 1991 |
| Founder: | Soledad Alvear |
| Type: | GO |
| Status: | Service |
| Purpose: | Promoting the equality of men and women. |
| Professional Title: | Servicio Nacional de la Mujer |
| Location: | Chile |
| Region Served: | Chile |
| Leader Title: | Minister-Director |
| Parent Organisation: | , if one --> |
The National Women's Service (Spanish; Castilian: Servicio Nacional de la Mujer|links=no; SERNAM) is a public service in Chile, a functionally decentralized organization, with its own funding, which is part of the cabinet-level Ministry of Planning and Cooperation under the President of Chile, created January 3, 1991 by the Law N° 19,023, with the goal of promoting the equality of men and women.
SERNAM's founding mission was to collaborate with the executive in the study and proposal of general plans and measures in order that women may enjoy equality of rights and opportunities with men, in the process of political, social, economic, and cultural development of Chile.
The upper-level direction, technical and administrative, of SERNAM is charged to the Director of Service, who has the rank of Minister of State, like an Interior Minister or Finance Minister. Its first Director was Soledad Alvear.
In each of the regions in which Chile is divided a Regional Directorship of the National Women's Service exists with its headquarters in the capital city of each respective region. There are 13 regional directorships.
| Minister-Director | Party | Period | President |
|---|---|---|---|
| DC | 3 January 1991 | Patricio Aylwin Azócar | |
| Ind | 11 March 1994 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle | |
| PPD | 11 March 2000 | Ricardo Lagos Escobar | |
| Ind | 11 March 2003 | Ricardo Lagos Escobar | |
| DC | 11 March 2006 | Michelle Bachelet Jeria | |
| PS | 20 October 2009 | Michelle Bachelet Jeria | |
| Ind | 11 March 2010 | Sebastián Piñera Echenique | |
| Ind | 22 April 2013 | Sebastián Piñera Echenique | |
| PC | 11 March 2014 | Michelle Bachelet Jeria | |