Marta Ortega Gaspar- PhD in Sociology. Universidad de Málaga. Politics Sciences and Sociology Degree. Licenciada en Ciencias Políticas y Sociología. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain
- Professor at University of Malaga
Marta Ortega Gaspar
- PhD in Sociology. Universidad de Málaga. Politics Sciences and Sociology Degree. Licenciada en Ciencias Políticas y Sociología. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Spain
- Professor at University of Malaga
Professor at University of Malaga. Spain
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Marta Ortega-Gaspar Professor of Sociology (University of Malaga) PhD European Mention, Extraordinary Award. Expertise in Applied Social Research and Data Analysis (CIS, 1994) and BA Sociology and Political Science (Complutense University, Madrid, 1993). Diplomate of Sociology (Pontificia Salamanca). Researcher fellow at City London University 2007, University of Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, OIPA,UK, 2012, 2015,University of Jena 2015, University Catholic Milan 2022/24
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January 2023 - present
January 2012 - August 2012
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This paper explores the work–family conflict as perceived by working parents in two European countries, Spain and Great Britain (GB). Using data from the International Social Survey Programme, ISSP 2002, we examine the factors that explain the high level of conflict in the two countries, for both men and women. Whereas sex, age and having children...
Family policies to reduce conflict in work-life balance and promote gender equality advanced significantly at the legislative level in Spain in the first decades of the twenty-first century. These advances include the 2007 Law for Equality between Men and Women and the extension of paternity leave to 16 weeks in 2020. However, advances in care work...
The main goal of this study is to perform a critical literature review of empirical research that measures the effects of joint physical custody (JPC) on children’s and parents’ wellbeing from a sociological perspective. Its focus is Spain in the scope of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT). The studies reviewed show no consensus on terminology...
It is relevant to think on family when approaching the study of work/family
policies because among other reasons the family is the first agency of
socialization and education, the main informal social support of care needs
to the most dependent members of all societies. As the Covid-19 crisis has
shown the family relevance in relation to informal s...
This study attempts to deepen knowledge of roles in two different social
contexts which share similar cultural roots. Changes at both the demographic
and social level have contributed to grandfathers playing an increasingly
important role in the lives of their grandchildren, but little attention has been
paid to date to this area of research. The p...
Social integration process of immigrants has long been a key issue in the government agenda. This study analyzes the barriers and strategies for professional integration of highly skilled immigrant mothers during the process of immersion in a new social and cultural environment. The analysis allows the understanding of how these women recover a pro...
Spain is among the countries with the highest life expectancy rate in the world. This fact, together with the low and stagnant birth rate, makes it one of the oldest. In this context, the study of the well-being of the elderly takes on special importance. This paper offers a review of the literature on studies that have focused on the analysis of s...
Modern societies are experiencing a great variety of changes at all the institutional levels (economical, political, religious-ideological, social, educational and familial). Among these changes, familial and demographic challenges, such as fertility reduction, the increase of partnership dissolutions, the modification of domestic patterns, a highe...
Resumen Los presupuestos sensibles al género han sido impulsados en diversos países con el fin de reducir brechas de género al distribuir y orientar de manera más adecuada y equitativa los fondos públicos. Si bien las primeras experiencias datan de la década del 80, la Declaración y Plataforma para la Acción de Beijing adoptadas en septiembre de 19...
The main objective of the present study is a critical literature review on the sociological empirical studies focused on shared care (shared-parenting, joint custody, joint physical custody...) and its effects on children ́s wellbeing (best interest of the child or BIC, subjective wellbeing, satisfaction...), in Spain between years 20152019. The cu...
Since the early 1990s, the diversity of work–family arrangement models has increased in Spain. It is difficult to understand this phenomenon without attending to the Spanish population’s preferences for such models. This article analyses the attitudes towards gender roles, and family model preferences within a normative and socio-structural framewo...
This paper analyses informal social support as a relevant factor in the process of maintaining the Spanish welfare state. There has been considerable theoretical discussion but little empirical work done to determine the factors that influence the provision of this type of support. More specifically, this article explores the factors that determine...
This paper analyses informal social support as a relevant factor in the process of maintaining the Spanish welfare state. There has been considerable theoretical discussion but little empirical work done to determine the factors that influence the provision of this type of support. More specifically, this article explores the factors that determine...
Este trabajo persigue identificar los determinantes de la satisfacción vital de los mayores en España. Concretamente, se analizan dos dimensiones de dicho fenómeno social: la satisfacción con la situación actual y la preocupación por la propia vejez. La fuente de información utilizada ha sido la Encuesta de Mayores de 2010 (Imserso). Los análisis e...
Intergenerational support is a shared behavior in all countries. Nevertheless, in Spain its intensity or frequency is higher than most European countries. Grandparents playing childhood
care activities is a social phenomenon that is increasingly relevant (in terms, for example, of volume, responsibility or absence of parents). The number of grandpa...
El presente capítulo centra su atención en explicar a los investigadores nóveles cómo proceder a la revisión de los trabajos científicos a través de la revisión de la literatura relativa a su objeto de estudio.
The family changes in Spain in recent decades have generated a fruitful theoretical and empirical debate on the new family forms. Based on the findings of international studies on attitudes and family values, the main objective of the present study is to carry out an exhaustive scientific literature review about the family models in Spain in order...
El propósito del presente trabajo es analizar los efectos de las políticas sociales orientadas hacia las personas mayores en una muestra de países europeos. La pregunta de investigación es la siguiente: ¿unas políticas sociales dirigidas a los mayores más generosas limitan la solidaridad hacia las generaciones de más edad? Con tal propósito se anal...
In this paper we analyze the effect of welfare policies oriented toward the elderly on solidarity toward the elderly in a sample of European countries. The research question is whether more generous welfare policies crowd out solidarity. For this purpose, we analyze four waves of the SHARE database. We use multilevel analysis to estimate the effect...
Proyecto de investigación financiado por el Centro de
Estudios Andaluces (PRY094/10).
Septiembre de 2012.
ISBN: 978-84-695-6747-0
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyse internet use among the elderly in
UK and the relation between this behavior and their capacity to live independently, as well as how this influences their well-being and sustains digital engagement. The aim is to prove the influence that the knowledge and the use of this specific ICT could have in in...
Bibliografía Resumen El presente trabajo ofrece una revisión de las políticas sociales en materia de conciliación en Europa. Se detiene en el análisis de su evolución para promover una reflexión sobre los efectos que tales políticas sociales provocan. Concretamente trata de responder a la siguiente cuestión: ¿qué cambios se han producido en las Pol...
Estudio del apoyo social informal desde la perspectiva de género.
This study aim to analyze the informal social support from a gender perspective.
Aquest estudi mostra el contrast existent entre dues regions espanyoles, Andalusia i Catalunya, en el mercat de treball des d'una doble perspectiva de temps i de genere. Les dades permeten atorgar a Catalunya una posicio mes propera a una modernitzacio teorica, sempre dins del pla laboral estudiat aqui, si be es cert que aquestes dades permeten obs...
La mujer experimenta una rápida transición en la sociedad marroquí. El principio del siglo XXI está siendo el de la irrupción de las mujeres marroquíes en la participación política, además de la consolidación gradual de su presencia en las instituciones del país. Este trabajo analiza algunas de las claves que están haciendo posible el cambio, con u...
La presente investigación tiene como objeto de estudio la identidad de la mujer marroquí. El marco teórico desde el que se aborda su estudio abarca dos dimensiones: aquella que analiza el concepto de identidad en general y en segundo lugar, la que se acerca al conocimiento específico de la mujer marroquí (migrante y no migrante). Se trata de un est...
The objective of this chapter is to analyze the work-family conflict in Spain. We have determine the factors that influence on the individual (men and women) that suffer from this kind of conflict. It is analyzed this social phenomena in two different social welfare regimes, Spain and Great Britain.
In this chapter it is analyzed the material dependence of young population in Malaga (Spain) at the beginning of XXI century.
This chapter analyses family, friend and partner relations of young people living in Malaga (Spain) at the beginning of XXI century.
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Crowding in Theory or Crowding Out Theory
