Presence of women in local government in spain. Historical and territorial perspectives (1979- 2019)

  1. Cándida Gago García
  2. Juana Mª Rodríguez Moya
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Revista internacional de sociología

ISSN: 0034-9712

Año de publicación: 2023

Volumen: 81

Número: 2

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.3989/RIS.2023.81.2.21-01320 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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The aim of this study is, firstly, to assess women’s pres-ence in local government in Spain from 1979 to 2019, a period which coincides with forty years of democracy and has witnessed more than ten elections, and second-ly, to determine whether the gender gap has narrowed. In particular, we wanted to identify any possible changes produced as a result of the entry into force of Organ-ic Law 3/2007 on the Effective Equality of Women and Men. Our results show that women’s presence in town councils has increased, but that there are marked dif-ferences in internal trends. Besides the historical view-point, this research also includes a territorial perspec-tive. Thus, in order to explain the territorial distribution of the results, Moran’s Index of Spatial Autocorrelation was used, analysing data on the presence of female mayors and councillors in more than 8,100 town councils. The variables considered were: territorial proximity, meas-ured using the univariate Moran’s I; degree of rurality, defined according to municipality size; and the presence of women for the first time. For the latter two variables, we conducted a bivariate analysis (bivariate Moran’s I), correlating them with the presence of female mayors and the percentage of female councillors as dependent variables. We found few territorial patterns; instead, our results indicate a high degree of randomness, which could be attributed to the diverse nature of municipali-ties in the country.

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