There is currently a clear segregation between the subjects young men and women are choosing to study. This segregation, which stems from the choices made in adolescence and the socialisation taking place long before that, is then transferred to the labour market, with significant pay gaps between sectors. This explains why engineering and architecture are predominantly masculine fields, sciences are evenly split between men and women, while the social sciences and law, arts and humanities and health sciences are predominantly feminine fields.
This segregation is common around the world, with similar proportions in Catalonia and the European Union, but is less notable in technical studies and socio-legal sciences.
Gender in figures
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Do social inequalities affect health?
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Men’s and women’s education?
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Diversity of origin and migration projects
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Who called it work-life balance?
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How millennials share domestic chores
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Economic independence at risk?
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Gender in ten key economic sectors
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To get married: a personal, political or economic decision?
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Putting off motherhood for a decade
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Balanced representation on local councils?
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The barriers to economic power are still in place
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Living in fear of your partner
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Where did it happen?
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Differences and similarities in day-to-day culture
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Creative women: presence in cultural life
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Men and women in the film industry
Observatori iQ
iQ is a cooperative that seeks to contribute to social innovation in favor of gender equality. The cooperative offers the iQ Observatory, a platform that delivers statistical data on the differences and inequalities between men and women in different areas of everyday life in Catalonia. iQ team is made up of professionals with several profiles and is led by the political scientist Maria de la Fuente.