GENDER GAP IN SENIOR POSITIONS IN CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION: THE CASE OF THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT FOR THE PERIOD 2015-2021

Josué Gutiérrez-Barroso (), Alberto Javier Báez-García (), Esther TORRADO Martín-Palomino () and Francisco Flores-Muñoz ()
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Josué Gutiérrez-Barroso: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
Alberto Javier Báez-García: Assistant Professor, Department of Constitutional Law, Political Science and Philosophy of Law, Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
Esther TORRADO Martín-Palomino: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain,
Francisco Flores-Muñoz: Assistant Professor, Department of Constitutional Law, Political Science and Philosophy of Law, Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain

REVISTA ADMINISTRATIE SI MANAGEMENT PUBLIC, 2022, vol. 2022, issue 38, 120-131

Abstract: This article focuses on the evolving presence of women in senior positions in central government and dependent organism (General Administration of the State). The main goal is to analyse a new database for the first time, containing relevant data about the female presence during the period 2015 to 2021 through a new methodology, which is more reliable in terms of determining the level of the access of women to high positions of representation of political power in Spain. The key contribution of this study is twofold: (1) it resides in the design and exploration of a large database that goes beyond the information usually presented by the governmental statistics and that overcomes certain restrictive compilation criteria for these female senior officials and (2) it explores the situation after the global pandemic scenario. The results show how these metrics evolve from government to government with a significant change in political orientation.

Keywords: senior positions; central administration; Spain; women; political power. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 D78 J16 Z18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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