{"id":88990,"date":"2021-04-30T12:44:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T10:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/?p=88990"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T10:46:52","slug":"marina-subirats-promoter-of-equality-policies-awarded-an-honorary-doctorate-by-the-urv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/marina-subirats-promoter-of-equality-policies-awarded-an-honorary-doctorate-by-the-urv\/","title":{"rendered":"Marina Subirats, promoter of equality policies, awarded an honorary doctorate by the URV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marina Subirats, who has been invested this afternoon as an honorary doctor by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, is a leading figure in the promotion of equality policies, both for her research on the sociology of education and women and for her public and political service.\u00a0She has served as director of the Women’s Institute of the Ministry of Social Affairs, as a member of the Equal Opportunities Committee of the European Union, as councillor for Education for Barcelona City Council and member of the State School Council, among other positions.<\/p>\n

Dr Subirats\u2019 research has provided the theoretical and practical foundations on which rest our current equality policies.\u00a0The eminent sociologist began her research on the education and inequality of women in 1976, just as the feminist movement was starting to gain momentum in Spain.\u00a0\u201cThen we knew nothing;\u00a0we were a generation without teachers, \u201d she said in her inaugural speech, for whom the implementation of mixed schools posed new challenges regarding understanding how gender is unconsciously transmitted in the classroom.\u00a0Through the study of language and the use of school spaces and materials, she found, as a sociologist, how mixed schools continued to discriminate against girls and imposed a rigid and demanding model of behaviour on boys.<\/p>\n

Despite progress regarding gender issues in recent years, Dr Subirats believes that the solution for achieving a true stage of equality between women and men is the dissolution and disappearance of gender: \u201cWe must undo the models of behaviours, aspects and prescriptions assigned to men or women according to their sex and accept that everyone can access all gender roles, without the limitations that these impose\u201d.\u00a0In this regard, Joan Mart\u00ed, linguist and former rector of the URV, and Dr Subirats\u2019 sponsor for the honorary doctorate, stressed in his\u00a0laudatio\u00a0that her arguments “never seek to apportion blame to anyone” and “never exclude ‘men as essential collaborators in the process of liberation\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Figueras, rector of the URV;\u00a0Marina Subirats, before receiving the honorary doctorate, and her sponsor, Joan Mart\u00ed, linguist and former rector of the University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marina Subirats studied at the prestigious \u00c9cole des hautes \u00e9tudes en sciences sociales in the 1960s when it was still a department of the \u00c9cole pratique des hautes \u00e9tudes in Paris and where her tutors included some of the best sociologists in France, such as Alain Touraine and Pierre\u00a0Bourdieu\u00a0.\u00a0During her training, in the second half of the 1960s, her sociological thinking underwent an intense transformation that laid the foundations of her research into education and social classes. Despite describing this as \u201can endless subject that has been silenced for the last forty years for political reasons, \u201d, she has nevertheless continued her research tirelessly.<\/p>\n

Some of her most notable works are the\u00a0Metropolitan Survey, an empirical analysis of social transformation made through the Institute of Metropolitan Studies between 1986 and 1990, and the book\u00a0Rosa y\u00a0Azul\u00a0.\u00a0La transmisi\u00f3n de los g\u00e9neros en la escuela mixta, published in 1988 and one of her most cited works.\u00a0She has been awarded the Cross of Saint George (the Catalan Government\u2019s highest honour), the Catalonia Prize for Sociology by the Catalan Sociological Association, and is also an honorary doctor of the University of Valladolid.<\/p>\n

Three women honorary doctorate<\/h5>\n

During the investiture ceremony, the rector of the URV, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Figueras, highlighted the fact that the URV\u2019s last three honorary doctorates have been awarded to women: the pilot\u00a0Bettina\u00a0Kadner\u00a0, the pedagogue Pilar\u00a0Benejam\u00a0and Marina Subirats.\u00a0“It’s a matter of justice,” said the rector, who added that the uneven distribution of honorary doctors “does not correspond to the reality, either then or now.”\u00a0Between 1994 and 2018, only five of the 43 honorary doctorates awarded at the URV were awarded to women, something that the current management of the University is seeking to redress.<\/p>\n

The rector also highlighted the URV’s close relationship with Dr Subirats, who has been part of the advisory board of the University’s Equality Observatory since it was created in 2008. Subirats has participated in conferences and events organized at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and through her knowledge has helped “to improve the tools available at the URV for increasing equality”.<\/p>\n

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Before receiving the honorary doctorate, Marina Subirats signed the URV book of honour accompanied by Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Figueras, rector of the URV, and her sponsor, Joan Mart\u00ed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Subirats herself has explained that the URV is not her only connection with the territory of Tarragona.\u00a0The sociologist explained that she feels particularly attached to the Priorat, specifically to Poboleda, where her maternal family comes from and which she regards as \u201cher home village\u201d, even though she was born in Barcelona.\u00a0In addition, on her father\u2019s side she also has roots in Freginals, in the Montsi\u00e0 region.<\/p>\n

The investiture ceremony was held for the first time in a blended format, with a small number of attendees in the Auditorium and a wider audience online.\u00a0The event was also characterised by moments of mutual respect such as when Subirats\u2019 sponsor, Joan Mart\u00ed, dedicated to her the Italian folk song\u00a0Bella\u00a0ciao, which talks about the difficulties faced by women rice pickers, or the surprise greeting from the Minister of Universities, Manuel Castells, who has worked closely with Marina Subirats and described her as \u201ca fundamental inspiration for women researchers and feminist politicians\u201d for the \u201cempirical quality\u201d of her work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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