Category Archives: Work and gender

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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Young people and well-being: analysing social and working factors behind the mental health crisis

The research focuses on the state of mental health and emotional well-being of the young population in Catalonia. There is an increasingly shared conviction that in today’s society, promoting the mental health of young people is an unavoidable priority. The

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Evaluation of the “VilaVeïna” Program

VilaVeïna is a pioneering municipal initiative to address care in small territorial units, in which specialized professional teams, people receiving care and citizens are part of a community network and co-responsible for the collective welfare. It is a project aimed

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Changes in domestic and care work: from gender specialization to dragging tasks?

The objective of the research is to deepen the analysis of the trends of change in the distribution of domestic and care work from a gender perspective. Specifically, the following research question is formulated: What factors facilitate the egalitarian distribution

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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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The incorporation of men into paid care. Challenges, opportunities and strategies of action from the public administration

Study on the incorporation of men into paid care, analysis of the opportunities that the promotion of the presence of men has in occupations related to care for gender equality in Catalonia. We also take into consideration the analysis of

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A qualitative approach to sexual harassment in the world of work

The aim of the study is to make a qualitative approach to sexual and gender-based harassment in the workplace in order to learn about the perceptions, experiences and socially shared imaginaries that are part of this phenomenon. The starting point

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