The Future of Education

The Organic Law 3/2007, of 22 March 2007 on effective equality between women and men that is considered in the Directive 2002/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2002, concerning equality, makes the public institutions guarantee the inclusion of the gender perspective in the public policies and preserve the recognition of the role of women in the economic, historical and cultural spheres. In this sense, the Ministry of Education has an essential role regarding the development of the European laws in order to reach the effective equality between men and women.

However, 38 public universities have been analyzed in this study through the different websites from the Spanish universities and we conclude that the existing data that we have about the current situation of the women in the scientific field and, in general, in the University, has not implied their promotion in the academic world (although the feminine representation in the University has experienced a big change in the last years). What is more, from the information about the different Spanish universities, we can state that there is little unanimity about calling or describing the structures they have (there are names like offices, observatories, commissions, units of equality…).

Consequently, the aim of this study is to present a panoramic situation in the Spanish universities that work in favour of the women. The objective is also to display the similarities and differences among universities in order to create a debate about the equality policies that are developed in the Higher Education.