Soledad Murillo Explained

Soledad Murillo
Birth Name:Soledad Murillo de la Vega
Birth Date:21 April 1956
Birth Place:Madrid, Spain
Occupation:Sociologist, researcher, politician
Alma Mater:Complutense University of Madrid
Party:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Office1:Secretary of State for Equality
Term Start1:9 June 2018
President1:Pedro Sánchez
Predecessor1:Mario Garcés
Office2:Member of the
Term Start2:2011
Term End2:2015
Office3:Secretary General for Equality of the
Term Start3:30 April 2004
Term End3:17 April 2008

Soledad Murillo de la Vega (born 21 April 1956) is a Spanish feminist sociologist, researcher, and politician.[1] Since 9 June 2018 she has been the Secretary of State for Equality in the government of Pedro Sánchez. From 2004 to 2008 she was the Secretary General for Equality of Spain's, occupying the top political position in matters of equality in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. From 2009 to 2013 she was part of the United Nations' Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee, and from 2011 to 2015 she was a member of the for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid and is a full professor of the Department of Sociology and Communication at the University of Salamanca's Faculty of Social Sciences, where she promoted the Women's Studies Seminar and advocated for the first doctorate in Gender Studies. Her research as a sociologist has focused on the analysis of men's and women's time in terms of the tensions generated by the compatibility of the labor market with family life, analyzing why such reconciliation is a feminine and non-masculine problem, as well as associationism in women's organizations.

Biography

Soledad Murillo received a licentiate in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1981, a university where she completed her doctorate in Sociology in the Department of Methodology, Research, and Theory of Communication (1993). From 1990 to 1992 she took postgraduate studies in Feminism and Enlightenment.[1] In 1993 she presented her doctoral thesis La división sexual de los espacios público, privado y doméstico (The Sexual Division of Public, Private, and Domestic Spaces).[2]

From 1988 to 1991 she worked as a technical staff member in the Ministry of Labor's Subdirectorate of Studies. In 1993 she joined the University of Salamanca as a full professor of Sociology, where she remained until 2004.

In 1995, she promoted the University of Salamanca's Women's Studies Seminar (SEM), and was its president from 1997 until it was disbanded in 2009.[3]

On 30 April 2004, she was appointed to a new position created by the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Secretary General for Equality,[4] with the objective of fighting gender violence and establishing real equality between women and men.[5] [6] She served during the eighth legislature (2004–2008) presided over by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a period in which she promoted the . She was dismissed on 17 April 2008.[5]

On 12 December 2008, she was appointed director of the Equality Unit of the University of Salamanca.[6]

From 2009 to 2013 she was part of the United Nations' Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee.[3] [7]

From 2011 to 2015 she was a member of the in opposition for the PSOE.[3]

In 2015 she occupied the second place on the PSOE list for Salamanca in the legislative elections without achieving a seat.[8] She maintained her struggle against gender violence.[9]

She was a full professor of the Department of Sociology and Communication at the University of Salamanca's Faculty of Social Sciences[10] when in June 2018 she was appointed Secretary of State for Equality at the proposal of the Vice President of the Government and Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts, and Equality, Carmen Calvo, in the government of Pedro Sánchez.[11]

Time and the conciliation between the public and the private

In various publications Murillo denounces the social devaluation of the private and domestic sphere despite the number of hours invested in the production of household goods and services, as well as the care of dependents, which also requires the existence of a person responsible for their organization, usually a woman. Also the lack of privacy and "own time" of the women who devote most of their time to family obligations and care for the people around them.

In 2003 she directed the study Ciudadanía activa: las Asociaciones de Mujeres en España (Active Citizenship: Women's Associations in Spain), with the participation of 807 women's associations, in which the keys to advancing towards civil dialogue between public authorities and associations that give body to social movements were presented, and identified the weaknesses and challenges of the associations themselves.[12] In it she denounces how women's groups perceive the discriminatory treatment to which they are subjected by the public powers, and as a result they consider that it is usual for political parties not to recognize their achievements, however important they have been, or that have helped to create social welfare.[13]

Awards and recognitions

Publications

Individual

Contributions to collective works

Selected journal articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Soledad Murillo de la Vega (Spain) . . Spanish . 3 December 2018.
  2. La división sexual de los espacios público, privado y doméstico . 1993 . The Sexual Division of Public, Private, and Domestic Spaces . . Spanish . 3 December 2018.
  3. News: Soledad Murillo será la 'número dos' de las listas del PSOE a la Alcaldía de Salamanca . Soledad Murillo Will Be the 'Number Two' on the PSOE Lists for Mayor of Salamanca . . Salamanca . Spanish . 7 February 2011 . 3 December 2018.
  4. News: El Consejo de Ministros nombra seis delegados del Gobierno y a los presidentes del CIS y del BOE . The Council of Ministers Appoints Six Delegates of the Government and the Presidents of the CIS and the BOE . . Madrid . Spanish . 30 April 2004 . 3 December 2018.
  5. News: Destituyen a Soledad Murillo, secretaria general de Políticas de Igualdad . Soledad Murillo, Secretary General of Equality Policies, is Dismissed . . Madrid . Spanish . 18 April 2008 . 3 December 2018.
  6. News: La ex secretaria de Estado Soledad Murillo, nueva directora de la Unidad de Igualdad de la Universidad de Salamanca . Former Secretary of State Soledad Murillo, New Director of the Equality Unit of the University of Salamanca . . Salamanca . Spanish . 12 December 2008 . 3 December 2018.
  7. News: Soledad Murillo de la Vega . . Spanish . 3 December 2018.
  8. News: El PP obtiene dos diputados en Salamanca; PSOE y C's uno . La Gaceta Regional de Salamanca . Spanish . 20 December 2015 . 3 December 2018.
  9. News: Soledad Murillo: 'Lo preocupante es que se plantean las muertes de mujeres como algo del destino' . Soledad Murillo: 'The Worrying Thing is That the Deaths of Women are Considered as Something of Destiny' . Justino . Sanchón . . Spanish . 1 June 2013 . 3 December 2018.
  10. Web site: Murillo de la Vega, Soledad . . Spanish . 3 December 2018.
  11. Real Decreto 392/2018, de 8 de junio, por el que se nombra Secretaria de Estado de Igualdad a doña Soledad Murillo de la Vega . . 140 . 59464 . Spanish . 9 June 2018 . 3 December 2018.
  12. Book: San José Serrán, Begoña . Mujeres: el análisis . Women, the Analysis . De la impotencia de Antígona al empoderamiento de las mujeres en el siglo XXI . From the Impotence of Antigone to the Empowerment of Women in the 21st Century . Daniel . Castellano Santamaría . Alicia . Gil Gómez . Pau . Serrano Magdaleno . . 9788480214797 . 62 . Spanish . 2004 . 3 December 2018 . Google Books.
  13. Web site: Asociaciones de mujeres y ciudadanía activa. La participación en el periodo 2007–10 . Women's Associations and Active Citizenship: Participation in the Period 2007–10 . Nina . Infante Castrillo . Forum de Política Feminista . Madrid . Spanish . 25 February 2011 . 3 December 2018.
  14. Web site: Premios Mujeres Progresistas . Progressive Women Awards . Federation of Progressive Women . Spanish . 3 December 2018.
  15. News: Soledad Murillo recibió el premio a la Libertad de la Agrupación socialista de Béjar . Soledad Murillo Receives the Freedom Award of the Bejarana Socialist Association . El Correo de Béjar . Spanish . 26 November 2011 . 3 December 2018.
  16. Web site: Soledad Murillo premio Clara Campoamor 2017 . . Spanish . 27 November 2017 . 3 December 2018.
  17. Web site: Premio a Soledad Murillo de la Vega por su contribución a la Ley de Igualdad . Soledad Murillo de la Vega Awarded for her Contribution to the Equality Law . Clásicas y Modernas . Spanish . 31 March 2017 . 3 December 2018 . 15 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181115195223/http://www.clasicasymodernas.org/eventos/premio-soledad-murillo-la-vega-contribucion-la-ley-igualdad/ . dead .

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