Addressing informality, gender and ethnicity in domestic labour
The legal framework concerning household employment has undergone a number of changes worldwide. The 100th International Labour Conference in June 2011 was highly significant as it adopted the first international labour standards specifically for domestic workers: Convention No. 189 and the supplementing Recommendation No. 201. This article analyses recent Spanish reforms (2011–2013) in order to assess the effects of these changes, taking into account the characteristics of domestic work: feminized, informal, ethnicized and vulnerable. Although aimed at improving employment and working conditions, the new Spanish legislation has resulted in a number of setbacks as well as some progress. The…
Los «grupos financiero-industriales» en la Federación Rusa : Nuevas tendencias en el establecimiento de vínculos entre las esferas financiera y productiva
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo estudiar las relaciones existentes entre las esferas financiera y productiva de la economía rusa. Para ello se analiza, en primer lugar, los aspectos legislativos de la formación de los grupos financiero-industriales, describiéndose los requisitos y las restricciones básicas para la formación de estos grupos. En segundo lugar, se revisa la distinta evolución desarrollada por los grupos financieroindustriales cuantificando el fenómeno, por un lado, así como su ubicación en el espacio ruso, por otro. En tercer lugar, se elabora una caracterización de los grupos financieros, enumerando los principales criterios de integración que se han detectado para l…
Mainstreaming gender and sustainability jointly: a case study from a local government in Spain
ABSTRACTAfter the approval of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, mainstreaming has regained attention as a key strategy to advance towards sustainable development (SD). Taking into account ...
Is circular economy the key to transitioning towards sustainable development? Challenges from the perspective of care ethics
Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals represent a global consensus on the urgency to preserve the conditions that make life possible on this planet and ensure a future of wellbeing for humanity. Transforming consumption and production processes is a fundamental priority of this development agenda. Circular Economy has emerged as an alternative model, given its potential for value creation, while generating social and environmental positive impacts. An exploratory study carried out in Navarra (Spain) shows its potentiality for socio-economic and environmental benefits as well as technological, organizational, financial, institutional and social challenges. However, through the lenses of…
Are Public Subsidies to Encourage Young Farmers Effective? Case Study of a First-Time Farm Set Up by a Young Female Farmer in the Valencian Region of Spain
Generational renewal and the incorporation of women into the rural world are fundamental for the sustainability and modernisation of the agricultural sector. Hence the special government protection granted to the sector, which appears in both European legislation on rural issues and in the global strategy of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Rural Development Goals involving a commitment to measures aimed at helping young farmers to set up agricultural holdings and especially at encouraging women to engage in farm management. In the case of Spain, this is nothing new, given that Law 35/2011 on the Shared Ownership of Agricultural Holdings became a veritable revolution in terms of gender i…
Gender Equality Perceptions of Future Engineers
Gender bias is important in our society not only from the point of view of ethics and human rights but also from a pragmatic engineering point of view. Universities are aware of this issue and deve...