Woman and public employment regulation: an approach to expert knowledge in the fields of human resources and public management with gender perspective

Abstract

Legal, administrative and management framework of public employment forms a highly specialized material field, in which professional and academic qualification, as well as the legal and technical specialization that is developed through scientific research, and also daily professional development, make up key elements of its notorious rise in the different Territorial Public Administrations in Spain over the last two decades.

On the other hand, traditional conceptualization of the field of public employment as a highly masculinized field -in derivation of the high masculinization of political and trade union agents up to that stage- has made it difficult to create spaces for the development, expression and valorization of the professional capacity of women, as well as the dissemination of their expert knowledge.

The purpose of this introductory article is to present to the reader the monographic publication of the Administrative Documentation Magazine on women and public employment, prepared in order to disseminate and make visible the enormous existing expert knowledge on the subject in the different territorial Public Administrations from Spain.