Las relaciones de género en las políticas locales y en el desarrollo económico del Pirineo Catalán
The present paper explores women’s contribution to local development strategies in a mountainous area. The study analyses gender based political and economic roles in rural Catalonia. It is considered both Catalonia’s surprisingly low rate of women’s political participation, when compared to Spain as a whole, and the extentto which women’s decisions can be significantly different than men’s ones with respect to entrepreneurial approaches to local economic development. The paper further analyses women’s participation in decision making, investigating whether they have the capacity to involve innovatives take holders in local policy making. The economic characteristics of the Pyrenees region are addressed.The research applies both qualitative and quantitative methodology, includingin depth interview sand information gathered from data bases.
Keywords:local administration; local economic development; qualitative methodology;Catalan Pyrenees, gender relations in politics.
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RevistaRevista Latino-americana de Geografia e Gênero
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ISSN2177-2886