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After debating about the renewed interest of economist in the study of inequality, and advancing different reasons that justify such interest in the study of inequality, this paper reviews the evolution of income inequality in Spain in the context of the European Union. In order to do so, we study both the level of market inequality as well as the level of final or disposable income inequality, resulting from the intervention of the Public Sector through tax and transfer policies. From the comparison of market and disposable income inequality a first conclusion is obtained: what we could call the "differential fact" of income inequality in Spain, among the largest in the EU, results not from having a market leading to more unequal results in terms of income, but from the weaker compensating actions carried out by the Public Sector aiming at the reduction of inequality. To conclude, the paper studies the impact of the Great Recession on Income inequality, exploring the different reasons that might be behind its significant increase during the 2008-2013 recession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to present the main changes in relation to addressing intimate partner violence against women in Spain since 1995, held the Fourth World Conference on Women, until now. To do this briefly review, we analyse what the situation was at that time, and the main developments on this subject are presented, with special reference to changes In legislation, knowledge of the problem, and social awareness. However, despite these advances, this violence remains today a social and health problem of the first magnitude in our country, and significant challenges remain pending. These challenges derived not only from the difficulty in deploying some of the legislative changes put in place, but also, and what is more important, of patriarchal barriers to accepting the existence of this problem and its causes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]