A Spanish court ordered Wednesday the interior ministry to pay €180,000 in compensation to the family of a woman murdered by her abusive husband after her request for protection was turned down.
Spanish companies must now reveal wage differentials between male and female employees to allow women to demand greater equality, under a government decree adopted on Tuesday.
Ultra-Catholic organization is using an image of Hitler wearing lipstick to protest against what it calls “feminazis” and Spain’s gender violence laws in the run up to Women’s Day on March 8th.
Spain's Socialist government is seeking to erase gender bias in the constitution but the head of the Royal Spanish Academy, the custodian of the language, on Monday said the plan was unworkable.
Given Spain's gender pay gap of women earning 19.3 percent less than men, female employees will effectively start working for free on October 21st, according to a report by London-based Expert Market.
The city of Valencia is to take the fight against machismo to the streets by installing feminine silhouettes alongside the usual striding man at pedestrian crossings.
The number of women holding ambassador positions for Spain plummeted from 27 to nine after conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy took office, falling behind its European counterparts.
Spain's gender pay gap is increasing, with women on average earning 19.3 percent less than men and rarely getting promoted above them, figures released on Thursday show.
The new report from the influential World Economic Forum has named Spain and Greece as the two European countries with the greatest rise in gender inequality since 2006 in terms of political power, economic participation, education and health.
A politician on the Spanish island of Majorca has filed an official complaint about t-shirts distributed by a local nightclub which show a man shoving a woman to the ground with the caption, "Problem? No problem".
The organizers of a major comic fair in Barcelona are fuming after a recruitment firm placed a job ad on their website for hostesses with a minimum bust measurement of 95 centimetres (37 inches).
The pay gap between women and men Spain is higher than average for the EU and the country is one of only a handful where wage inequality is one the rise, a new report reveals.
A Spanish judge has got himself into hot water after he said a driving school was within its rights to charge female learners more than their male counterparts.
Spain's centre-right Popular Party government, under pressure from the Catholic Church and its ultraconservative wing, has vowed to "promptly" tighten the nation's abortion laws, angering the opposition Socialist Party which had eased access to the procedure.
