Category Archives: Current projects

Women and the Gender Pay Gap in the Barcelona City Council

The Barcelona City Council has been a pioneer in promoting an organizational culture committed to ensuring equality between women and men in all areas, stages, and circumstances of life, as established by Law 17/2015 of July 21, on effective equality

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Deinstitutionalization of long-term care, demographic challenge and social inclusion: recognition and redistribution of work and care needs (DESINCARE)

The main objective of the coordinated project is to analyse the strategy of deinstitutionalisation of long-term care, in the context of a model in transition, facing demographic challenges and pursuing social inclusion. It aims to study the factors that contribute

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Update of the study “The Sticky Floor of Women in the City of Barcelona”

The sticky floor concept captures women’s labour market experience. This term refers to the inability of many women to advance in their occupations, as they are mostly employed in labour-intensive sectors with precarious working conditions and low wages, characterised by

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FOESSA Report on Social Exclusion and Development in Catalonia

The aim of this report is to analyse the labour market in Catalonia, more specifically, the phenomenon of job precariousness through its dual objective and subjective dimensions. The socioeconomic changes of recent decades have broken with the so-called social norm

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Gender Equality in the Uses of Time: changes, resistance and continuities – GENERA

GENERA is a project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation within the framework of governmental programs for the Generation of Knowledge. The project aims at analysing the changes, resistance, and continuities in the use of time devoted to

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