The article explores the relationship between the legal principles of general interest and gender equality, both consecrated in C olombia's 1991 C onstitution. Through an analysis of the precedents set by the C onstitutional C ourt, the article provides a hermeneutical approximation of the behaviour of jurisprudence concerning the general interest. It demonstrates how this principle could be used to foster a more encompassing definition of gender equality. The precedents set by the C onstitutional C ourt have opened up the spectrum of women's rights so as to grasp their relation to the principle of general interest as well as their basis as fundamental rights.