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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attends the European leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium February 9, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Wednesday, May 03, 2023
Spain announces law promoting gender parity in politics and business
Reuters
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday announced a gender equality law that will require more equal representation of women and men in politics, business and other spheres of public life. The Equal Representation Law will apply gender...
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La vicepresidenta primera del Gobierno y ministra de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital, Nadia Calviño, en un encuentro este jueves. ISABEL INFANTES (EUROPA PRESS)/ El Pais
Friday, February 04, 2022
'Never again': Spain minister stands up for gender equality
ABC News
Spain’s government minister for economic affairs is making a stand for gender equality, saying she won’t take part in any more events or official group photographs where she is the only woman present. Spain’s government minister for economic affairs...
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New members of government are sworn in on Monday at a ceremony attended by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (3rd l) and King Felipe VI (c).BALLESTEROS / EFE
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
In sweeping reshuffle, Spain’s Pedro Sánchez names younger Cabinet with more women
El Pais
The Socialist leader hopes the changes will help focus on the economic recovery and smooth thorny issues such as Catalan independence before Spaniards vote in the next election. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has carried out a sweeping Cabinet...
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Thursday, May 23, 2019
The day that women took over Spanish Congress
El País
When Spanish deputy Clara Campoamor demanded women’s right to vote in a famous speech made on October 1, 1931, she was just one of three female members of Congress. Eighty-eight years after women’s suffrage was enacted in Spain, the new Congress...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Spain's parliament leads Europe in gender-equality despite rise of far right
Reuters
Spain’s new parliament, sworn in on Tuesday, has the largest share of women in any European legislature, no small achievement for a country still reinventing itself four decades after the end of a right-wing, traditionalist dictatorship. Women’s...
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Thursday, May 02, 2019
Which countries in Europe have the highest proportion of women in parliament?
Euronews
Do two of Europe's most recent elections signal a new trend on the continent? Recent polls in Spain and Finland have seen both countries elect record proportions of women to their respective parliaments. After a general election in Spain on Sunday,...
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Thursday, May 02, 2019
Spain just elected its most feminist parliament ever
The Local
The new batch of MPs to take their seats in Spain’s Congress will include more women than ever before – almost but not quite as many as men. With all the votes counted on Monday morning, it is now clear that 46.8 percent of elected members of...
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España: Brechas de género en la relación con la política: implicación, conocimiento y participación (Funcas)
Monday, December 10, 2018
Report / White Paper
España: Brechas de género en la relación con la política: implicación, conocimiento y participación
Funcas
El artículo presenta evidencia actualizada sobre la brecha de género en la implicación, el cono- cimiento y la participación política en España y en perspectiva comparada. Los resultados muestran que mientras que la brecha de género ha disminuido...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2018
Majority of women in charge of new Spanish government
ABC News
Spain's new Socialist government announced Wednesday a female-dominated Cabinet, including women appointed to key positions overseeing the national economy, finance and defense. The new government includes 11 female ministers and five men, as well...
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Ana Pastor elected President of the Congress of Deputies in Spain
The Congress of Deputies of Spain has chosen a woman, Ana Pastor, as president for the 12th Legislature last July 19. Ana Pastor, a graduate in medicine and until then Minister of Public Works and Transport of Spain and Member of Parliament for the...
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Eudel
Thursday, June 02, 2016
Guide / Training Material
Welcome manual for women elected municipal officials
EUDEL
This manual seeks to help women during their first time as a politician in their local municipality as it is a tool that will help women elected officials to carry out their role as local elected officials. This manual aims to provide women with...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Interviews
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
iKNOW Politics' interview with the former President of the Spanish Government, J.L. Rodríguez Zapatero. Available in Spanish and English. 
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Monday, November 23, 2015
Interviews
iKNOW Politics Interview with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
iKNOW Politics ha entrevistado al ex Presidente del Gobierno de España, J.L. Rodríguez Zapatero. // iKNOW Politics has interviewed the former President of the Spanish Government, J.L. Rodríguez Zapatero.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Spanish politician Isabel Carrasco shot dead in Leon
A top politician in northern Spain has been shot dead in public and two women have been arrested. Isabel Carrasco, head of the provincial government in Leon and a member of the governing People's Party (PP), was shot as she crossed a footbridge....
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Violence against women in politics
Highlighting news, interviews, resources and events on violence against women in politics
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
iKNOW Politics at the 10th Congress of the Ibero-American Union of Municipal Leaders (UIM)
On October 14 through 19, Ibero-American Municipal Leaders Week: "Good Governance and Quality of Local Democracy" and the 10th Congress of the Ibero-American Union of Municipal Leaders were held in Almería (Spain), organized by the the Ibero-...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
New Gender Equality Law in Spain
The Spanish parliament approved a new gender equality law aimed to provide equality between men and women in the political and economic life of the country. It is stipulated that the law will positively affect the representation of women on...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Spain: Letters from Political Prisoners
A book of the collected writings of over 100 women who were political prisoners during Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship, a symbol of what it means to fight for freedom and justice from inside a prison, was launched in Spain. To...
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