Abstract
The purpose of this article is to study the progress made in Spain in terms of gender parity and the challenges still pending to be achieved in this regard. To attain this objective, first of all, the authors review the successive legal regulations aimed at reaching gender equality that have been enacted in Spain. Furthermore, the considerations and findings made are based on the use of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. On the one hand, from a quantitative viewpoint, different statistical data provided mainly by the Spanish Statistics National Institute are analyzed. From these data, the authors prepare a set of tables and figures that allow them to show that, despite the undoubted legislative advances attained, clear gender inequalities continue in Spain. On the other hand, the authors base their assertions both on their participant observation and on a reinterpretation and reanalysis of the results of two previous qualitative researches. One of the most remarkable outcomes of the use of this qualitative methodology is the persistence in Spain of diverse signs of macho mentality. This persistence not only manifests itself among many men, it is also shared by a large number of women.
Highlights
As is well known, the fight for equal rights between women and men is closely related to the emergence and development of the international suffrage movement that claimed the right of women to vote
The authors prepare a set of tables and figures that allow them to show that, despite the undoubted legislative advances attained, clear gender inequalities continue in Spain
First of all, we review the successive legal regulations aimed at reaching gender equality that have been enacted in Spain, after the arrival of democracy, during the last four decades
Summary
The fight for equal rights between women and men is closely related to the emergence and development of the international suffrage movement that claimed the right of women to vote. The. Association for the Teaching of Women (Asociación para la Enseñanza de la Mujer), created in 1870 by the pedagogue and intellectual Fernando de-Castro-y-Pajares, was a Spanish educational project, whose purported mission was to offer middle-class Spanish women the opportunity to have access to effective academic and scientific education, which they had hitherto lacked. Association for the Teaching of Women (Asociación para la Enseñanza de la Mujer), created in 1870 by the pedagogue and intellectual Fernando de-Castro-y-Pajares, was a Spanish educational project, whose purported mission was to offer middle-class Spanish women the opportunity to have access to effective academic and scientific education, which they had hitherto lacked This association, of which the writer Concepción Arenal was a close collaborator (Franco-Rubio 2004), sponsored several feminine schools that had a key role in the progress and social promotion of women in Spain, and in improving their education and job training
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