Iniciativas de educación para a igualdade na administración local: unha análise dos plans de igualdade municipais

Abstract

Full equality between women and men is nowadays one of the pending challenges to solve in society, not to forget the noticeable progress achieved in the last years fighting against gender inequality. In this context, there is a need to motive new procedures to accomplish equality, in which education must be considered an essential tool.

The intention of this proposal is to explore educational initiatives for equality proposed in a program of twenty-one municipal equality plans of different city halls in the Autonomous Community of Galicia, randomly selected. For this purpose, a document analysis was performed, focused on co-educational strategies and mostly addressed to school population. Among the priority scope of work, establishment of workshops and training activities in the educational institutions about various topics linked to gender equality are highlighted, proposed initiatives aimed to involve families in co-education, contributing with bibliographic funds and encouraging reading about equality.