La monografía Acciones públicas y privadas para lograr la igualdad de género en las empresas", dirigida por la profesora Nieto Rojas, y con la participación de los profesores Serrano García, de la UCLM, Aragón Gómez, de la UNED, y Gimeno Diaz de Ataturi y Moreno Solana, de la UC3M, aborda, de manera completa y transversal, las últimas novedades legislativas para lograr la igualdad de género en el mercado de trabajo. En primer lugar, se analiza el impacto de la aprobación del RD Ley 6/2019 respecto a la nulidad del despido por el ejercicio de derechos de conciliación, planteando si es idéntica la protección para hombres y mujeres. En segundo lugar, se analiza el nuevo Real Decreto 901/2020 sobre planes de igualdad y el impacto que ha tenido su aprobación para todas las empresas de más de 50 personas. En tercer lugar, se estudia, con sumo detalle, el Real Decreto 902/2020 sobre igualdad salarial, tanto en relación al trabajo de igual valor en los sistemas de clasificación profesional como en lo relativo a los mecanismos de transparencia retributiva adoptadas por el Ejecutivo, significadamente el registro salarial y la obligatoriedad de realizar auditorias retributivas a las empresas obligadas a tener un plan de igualdad. Cierra esta monografía el análisis de uno de los problemas más relevantes para la consecución de una sociedad igualitaria: la existencia de supuestos de acoso sexual, acoso por razón de sexo y otros tipos de violencia en el entorno laboral, analizándose, con una evidentemnte perspectiva aplicativa, tanto las medidas preventivas como paliativas necesarias para la erradicación de estas conductas. En suma, una obra completa, transversal y que analiza, con profundidad y dimensión aplicativa, las últimas reformas legislativas en materia de igualdad en el mercado de trabajo.

With the financial meltdown and the economic crisis in their fifth year already no one can any longer be in doubt about their exceptional gravity, their truly global impact and their profound effects hurting vulnerable groups and the very poor especially. As the world looks for an exit from this economic crisis – the worst in eight decades – the focus of attention is naturally on the causes, the factors that account for its wide reach and severity, as well as on strategies that might bring it to a closure. The quest for exit strategies is at the very centre of the issues and concerns explored in the present volume, produced by the IIAS. Like the preceding volumes, but even more emphatically, this volume, representing a collective endeavour of scholars and practitioners from many parts of the globe, finds cause to lay the blame, for our difficult predicament, on the institutional deficit, the policies, the practices and values that have followed in the trail of a highly misleading and erroneous model of governance. The «Market Model of Governance» as it is known, sought to reform, the structures and culture of administration and government in private sector ways. While instrumental values like efficiency and effectiveness were raised and praised profusely, those of democratic governance were discounted by comparison. In particular, integrity, the rule of law and due process, equity, legality and public service professionalism suffered a steep decline, in several parts of the world. Likewise, the invasion and the capture of public space, inevitably led to an unprecedented surge of greed, abuse and corruption that contributed directly to the crisis which is upon us. Looking for exit strategies, as its title aptly suggests, the present volume offers a rich menu of ideas drawn from the current experience of all the world ́s main regions. Not surprisingly, two concepts stand out throughout the book as necessary correctives, as well as pressing remedies to the world ́s ongoing malaise. They call for the recapture of our common administrative space and the reaffirmation of the values and virtues appropriate for democratic governance. To the IIAS, none perhaps are more important than public service professionalism and none other can contribute more effectively to the reform and consolidation of sound institutions for national, sub national, global and regional governance. For these reasons, at this juncture, the new volume like the others should be featured in every public library and become a vademecum of all scholars and practitioners of public administration and politics around the world.

Although climate change affects everybody it is not gender neutral. It has significant social impacts and magnifies existing inequalities such as the disparity between women and men in their vulnerability and ability to cope with this global phenomenon. This new textbook, edited by one of the authors of the seminal Women and the Environment in the Third World: Alliance for the Future (1988) which first exposed the links between environmental degradation and unequal impacts on women, provides a comprehensive introduction to gender aspects of climate change. Over 35 authors have contributed to the book. It starts with a short history of the thinking and practice around gender and sustainable development over the past decades. Next it provides a theoretical framework for analyzing climate change manifestations and policies from the perspective of gender and human security. Drawing on new research, the actual and potential effects of climate change on gender equality and women's vulnerabilities are examined, both in rural and urban contexts. This is illustrated with a rich range of case studies from all over the world and valuable lessons are drawn from these real experiences. Too often women are primarily seen as victims of climate change, and their positive roles as agents of change and contributors to livelihood strategies are neglected. The book disputes this characterization and provides many examples of how women around the world organize and build resilience and adapt to climate change and the role they are playing in climate change mitigation. The final section looks at how far gender mainstreaming in climate mitigation and adaptation has advanced, the policy frameworks in place and how we can move from policy to effective action. Accompanied by a wide range of references and key resources, this book provides students and professionals with an essential, comprehensive introduction to the gender aspects of climate change.