Gender & inequality

Spain has made significant progress in reducing the gender pay gap between 2010 and 2022, although substantial disparities remain. Our analysis of Spanish labor market data indicates a clear downward trend in the wage gap between men and women, alongside evidence that structural barriers continue to impede equality. The main findings are: Reduction of the […]

In recent years, paternity leave permits in Spain haves been progressively extended until to becominge the most generous ones in the OECD. Since 2021, paternity leave in Spain is 16 weeks, matching the length of maternity leave. This level has been achieved through successive reforms that have increased the length of leave from 2 weeks […]

This study proposes the most in-depth and detailed analysis of gender inequality in STEM fields in Spain to date. Distinctively, we focus on areas with a significant emphasis on mathematics, where the most pronounced gaps occur; we cover everything from basic education, thanks to the latest PISA results, to the professional career, for which we […]

Key Data The gaps in educational outcomes in Spain have tended to remain stable or increase after the pandemic:   → One out of every six points of difference between students in PISA mathematics scores can be explained by socioeconomic inequality, a degree similar to 2018.   → Students from a low socioeconomic background are almost 4 […]

Aida Caldera, head of division in the OECD’s economics department, talks to Jorge Galindo, deputy director of EsadeEcPol, about the organization’s latest report analyzing the Spanish economy. They address its short-term resilience and how it contrasts with the worst medium- and long-term prospects, going in depth into its bottlenecks (productivity, debt) and how they condition […]

Last Tuesday, November 28th, we talked about our book “Un País Posible: Manual de Reformas Políticamente Viables” (Un País Posible: A Handbook of Politically Viable Reforms) thanks to the invitation of the Harvard Kennedy School Spain Alumni Network. The conversation counted with the interventions of Toni Roldán, Miguel Almunia, Marta Suárez-Varela and Antonio Cabrales and […]

Last Monday morning, October 9, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it was awarding the 2023 Alfred Nobel Memorial Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences to Harvard professor Claudia Goldin. In summary, the academy explained that Goldin was deserving of the prize for helping to understand the role of women in the […]

Spain has practically the same real per capita income as 15 years ago, while other countries around us are much richer than they were then. This means that over the last eighteen years we have not improved our average standard of living. We are therefore on the road to two lost decades. There are many […]

Coincidiendo con la semana del Día Internacional de la Mujer, en EsadeEcPol estaremos conversando este viernes 10 de marzo a las 10am con algunas de las investigadoras que más y mejor están trabajando sobre la igualdad desde distintas perspectivas. Estaremos con Irene Unceta (Esade), Claudia Hupkau (CUNEF), Libertad González (BSE-UPF), Judit Vall (UB-IEB), Ana Moreno-Maldonado (CUNEF), […]

Despite the improvements seen over the last decade, Spain has the second highest early school leaving rate in the European Union. This phenomenon disproportionately affects boys and young people from lower-income families, and Spain is one of the countries where these groups face the largest gaps. In this brief we use two good predictors of […]

Gender gaps in the labor market impact of the COVID-19 pandemic are closely linked to the policies implemented to contain the spread of the virus, such as school and workplace closures, and the negative effects on the economy, such as financial support for short-time workers. This is shown by a detailed analysis of the gender […]

Despite the narrowing of other gender gaps in the labour market, women choose degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) less often. Using microdata from diagnostic tests in the Community of Madrid between 2016 and 2019, we see the labour market gap reflected in compulsory education: on average, girls outperform boys in reading, but […]