esent 54 percent of all salary earners, they occupy the top jobs, with data from Spain’s finance ministry showing that 82 percent of positions where salaries are more than ten times the minimum wage are held by men.
Women are still officially described as "the weaker sex". This statistic illustrates the employment level in services as a share of total employment for women in Spain from to Try our corporate solution for free.
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The latest report from Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE) reveals that women spend almost twice as much time toiling in unpaid work than their male partners. Spanish women spend an average of hours a week doing unpaid work such as raising children, cooking and cleaning, household chores and caring for relatives, while the men get away with just 14 hours.
The gender gap in employment rates of recent graduates was present in 21 of the EU Member States and was most pronounced in Estonia, Slovakia and Czechia where the employment rates of recent male graduates were respectivelyand percentage points higher than those for women; an even larger gender gap was recorded in Turkey ( Gender roles in Spain have changed drastically within a short period of time.
From the 's to the 's, Spain had strict rules concerning women in the work force and even marriage. Wives were prohibited from working, owning property, or traveling without their husband's permission.
Women were required to participate in a 6 month long class. UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngucka and Jesús Manuel Gracia Aldaz, Spain’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation and for Ibero-America, signed a Strategic Partnership Framework in New York on 29 September to strengthen collaboration in promoting women.
5 Globally, informal employment is a greater source of employment for men ( per cent) than for women ( per cent), but in low and lower-middle income countries, a higher proportion of women.
In fact, the United States has a higher employment rate of women at percent compared to Spain’s percent (OECD iLibrary ). Although women are no longer prohibited from leaving the house or in desperate need of a “day of freedom,” there are still some small but important inequalities that limit the freedom of women in Spain today.The 19 th century was the changing point in terms of the history of women, particularly in the workplace.
This was the first time that women sought outside work and left the home to find employment and left all the work at home to be divided up amongst the family. There were changes in attitudes regarding marriage, education, politics, and a variety of other factors that made this possible.One of Spain’s most influential feminists, Clara Campoamor was known for helping women gain the right to vote.
She was a member of the Constituent Assembly (only three women were part of this at the time) and advocated suffrage, speaking out against discrimination against women, equality for children born outside marriage, and divorce rights.