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In Spain, regional policies on gender equality in the workplace must be coordinated with other policies at the European and national levels, in a multi-level governance framework. With this approach, this paper analyses, transversally and with a power distribution perspective, the areas of action and the powers of the autonomous communities in terms of making policies that achieve real equality between women and men in the workplace. The main premise of this paper is that in the field of labour relations, although autonomous communities do not have regulatory powers, they do have a wide range of action in the design and strategies of socio-labour policies and in their implementation. It is concluded that in Catalonia, the Statute of Autonomy of 2006 — which extensively recognises the rights linked to gender equality in the workplace — orders the creation of its own Catalan labour relations space where progress can be made in this direction through agreements and collective bargaining. Likewise, the approval of the Catalan Equality Law, although late, regulates a series of policies, objectives and instruments that allow for progress in greater gender equity in the field of labour relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the presence of women in Catalan political institutions from 1980 until now. First, this report reviews the measures that have been adopted over the years to reduce male over-representation. Second, it presents women’s political representation in Catalonia, with a special emphasis on the Parliament, the Government, and local authorities. It also analyses the factors that account for this gender gap. Third, it exposes the measures that have been implemented in other places — such as Spain’s autonomous communities, European countries, or Latin American countries — to boost women’s representation. Finally, this paper suggests measures that can be implemented to improve or maintain the representation of women in Catalan institutions. This study focuses on Catalonia since it allows the analysis of the presence of women in sub-state institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is about the evaluation of educational policies for non-sexist education in Catalonia from the Spanish democratic transition on. It starts by analysing the legal framework of education, both in Spain and Catalonia. Many different laws have been approved during these years. After this first part, we analyse the action of the Conselleria d’Educació, the education authority in Catalonia. What did this institution do about non-sexist education? The most important action was an Educational Innovation Programme from 2005 to 2010, and then during the last three years. We also mention a few actions from other institutions or schools. However, we must conclude that no institutional policy has consistently been developed. Finally, we provide some notes about non-sexist research in schools, teachers’ training, and books and papers about what is referred to as “coeducation” in Spain. A big change has to be made in the years ahead in order to achieve a non-sexist education in Catalonia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]