Emakunde Basque Institute for Women Speakers

Illus. Mr. Juan José Ibarretxe Markuartu

President of the Basque Government

Hon. Ms. Izaskun Moyua Pinillos

Emakunde/Basque Women's Institute

Ms. Élida Alfaro Gandarillas

Director of the seminar “Women and Sport”, INEF. Madrid

• Licenciada en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte y Master en Dirección y Administración del Deporte.
• Es Profesora Titular de la Fac. de C.C. Actividad Física y Deporte-INEF de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), en donde dirige el Seminario MUJER Y DEPORTE e imparte las asignaturas: Actividad Física, Deporte y Género; Desarrollo Motor y Optimización del Rendimiento Deportivo.
• Es Secretaria General de la Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Superdotación y Codirectora del Seminario Mujer y Superdotación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• Es Vicepresidenta de la Red Iberoamericana de Centros Superiores de Ciencias del Deporte.
• Ha sido Directora del INEF de Madrid, Presidenta de la Conferencia Española de Institutos y Facultades de Ciencias del Deporte, Presidenta de la Red Iberoamericana de Centros Superiores de Ciencias del Deporte.
• Ha participado como ponente en diversos Congresos nacionales e internacionales, presentando trabajos sobre Mujer y Deporte, Desarrollo Motor y Atención a niños/as y jóvenes con altas capacidades.
• Entre sus publicaciones más recientes se encuentran: Deporte y Estilo de Vida en Cuadernos de Educación para la Prevención de Drogodependencias (2000), Educar hijos inteligentes (2001), Incidencia de la especialización precoz en la formación académica y protección jurídica de los/as jóvenes deportistas en Las mujeres en la alta competición deportiva (2001), La mujer en el deporte de alta competición en Actas del Seminario: Situación actual de la mujer superdotada en la sociedad (2002), Altas capacidades motrices: atención y desarrollo en revista ADAL (2002), Mujer y sobredotación: intervención escolar (2003), El talento psicomotor y las mujeres en el deporte de alta competición en Revista de Educación (2004), Los Juegos olímpicos, un escaparate de la inteligencia motriz en Revista CRÍTICA (2004), Estudio sobre actitudes y hábitos deportivos de las mujeres en el municipio de Madrid (2005), Deporte e identidad en chicos y chicas, en Actas Seminario Mujer y Deporte (2005), Educación e inteligencia: orientaciones para una intervención no sexista (2006) y Conciliación de la vida laboral, personal y familiar en el ámbito del deporte, en Actas Jornadas Estrategias para favorecer el acceso de las mujeres a la dirección y gestión del deporte (2006).

Learning to be a man: models and risks behaviours

Ms. Beatriz Moral Ledesma

Consultant of Applied Anthropology FARAPI. Donostia-San Sebastián

Born in Donostia in 1965.
Degree in Philosophy from the University of the Basque Country in 1989.
Doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of the Basque Country in 1997.

She has worked mainly in two geographic areas: Micronesia (Pacific) and the Basque Country.

Until the year 2000 her research work was developed within the university framework, at the University of the Basque Country and at the Centre de recherche et documentation sur l'Océanie de Marseille (Ecole des hautes études de sciencies sociales / Centre national de recherche scientifique).

She is now working at FARAPI, a consultancy of applied anthropology located in Donostia, of which she is a founding member and where she performs research work in topics related mainly to gender studies.

Learning to be a man: models and risks behaviours

Mr. Richard De Visser

Department of Psychology. University of Sussex. Great Britain

Is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology and the Brighton and Sussex Medical School at the University of Sussex. He completed his PhD on the topic of young people’s sexual health at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society. He has conducted research into young people’s health-related behaviour for over 10 years. In recent year his attention has been directed toward the links between gender identity and health-behaviour. An important component of this work has been qualitative research into masculinity and young men’s alcohol consumption.

Learning to be a man: models and risks behaviours

Mr. Benno De Keijzer

Institute for Public Health of the University of Veracruz and Coordinator of the Health and Gender Organisation, AC. México

Mexican and father of 4 daughters, he is a Surgeon (UNAM); with a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology (ENAH) and he is preparing his doctoral thesis in Community Mental Health (University of Veracruz). He has been a coordinator of Produssep, A.C. (1984-88), a teacher in education, social participation and gender topics in higher education institutions and a researcher with the Population Council. He has had a scholarship with Ashoka, the Mac Arthur Foundation and the University of Columbia/Open Society Institute.
He is a founder and has been the general coordinator of Salud y Género, A.C., from where he works with men in aspects of health and family violence. Since 2007 he has been a teacher-researcher of the Institute of Public Health of the University of Veracruz. He has published with the Universities of Guadalajara and Michoacana, the CIESAS

, UNIFEM, the Colegio de México, the UNESCO, OXFAM, Rutgers and the Population Council.

Men who care for themselves, men who care for others, men who are cared for

Ms. Lola Ferreriro Díaz

Head of Public Health programmes. Department of Health of the Xunta of Galicia. Santiago de Compostela

Doctor in Medicine and Surgery. Professor of Health Processes. Expert in Education for Health and in Health and Gender. Professor on the Gender and P.I. Master’s course of the University of Vigo (currently P.O.P), since its first year. Responsible for the preparation and implementation of different Education for Health programmes of the Conselleria de Sanidade. Coordinator and co-author of different works, including: “Adolescentes Galegos. Indicadores de risco de comportamentos disociais” (1996). “Temas Transversais e Educación de actitudes...” (2001). “De nais e pais a fillas e fillos, a propósito da prevención da infección polo VIH-SIDA” (1st edit.-2001). “Coeducación afectivo-emocional e sexual” (in press).

Men who care for themselves, men who care for others, men who are cared for

Ms. Clara Coria

Clinical and Research Psychologist in gender-related questions. Argentina

A clinical psychologist, Argentinean, a writer and specialist in group coordination and gender studies. A researcher into the problems of money, power, success, negotiation, love, changes, from a gender perspective. A post-graduate professor at national and foreign universities. Author of the following books: "El sexo oculto del dinero" (The hidden sex of money) (1986); "El dinero en la pareja" (Money in the couple) (1989); "Los laberintos del Exito" (The labyrinths of Success) (1992); "Las negociaciones nuestras de cada día" (Our every day negotiations) (1996); "El amor no es como nos contaron ... ni como lo inventamos" (Love is neither as we were told … nor as we devised it) (2001); "Los cambios en la vida de las Mujeres" (Changes in Women’s lives) in collaboration with Anna Freixas and Susana Covas, (2005). All of them published by Editorial Paidos.

Money management in our daily lives: we earn, we invest, we pay taxes

Ms. Capitolina Díaz Martínez

Dept. Applied Economy. University of Oviedo

Capitolina Díaz Martínez has a degree in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid and a PhD from London University. Her most outstanding books are Modern Couples Sharing Money, Sharing Life (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007) (in collaboration), Viejas sociedades, nuevas sociologías (Old societies, new sociologies) (Madrid: CIS, 2005) (in collaboration), Dinero, Amor e Individualización (Money, Love and Individualisation) (Oviedo, KRK, 2004) (in collaboration), El presente de su futuro Modelos de autopercepción y vida de los adolescentes españoles (The present of their future, Models of self-perception and life of Spanish teenagers) (Madrid, Siglo XXI, 1996) y Ética (Ethics) (Madrid, Anaya, 1995 and 2003). Her more recent publications include: “Un análisis transnacional del surgimiento e institucionalización de los planes académicos de los Estudios de las mujeres” (A transnational analysis of the emergence and institutionalisation of the academic plans of Women’s studies) (REIS, nº 117, 2007),) and Educación para la ciudadanía (Education for citizens) (Madrid: Anaya, 2007) and “Desequilibrios de Género en Ciencia y Tecnología” (Gender Misbalances in Science and Technology) in Catalina Lara Mujeres, Ciencia y Tecnología (Women, Science and Technology), Seville University, 2006.
She has been working on topics related to Education Sociology, Gender Sociology, the New Information and Communication Technologies and Methodology of Social Science. She has carried out research in those fields with national and international teams and has published books, chapters and articles on all of them as well as directed several doctoral theses. She is a professor of Sociology at Oviedo University and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Stanford (USA), UAM (Mexico), Moa (Cuba) and El Comahue (Argentina). She is a member of the Women’s Study Seminar of Oviedo University and of the Executive Committee of the European Sociology Association.
Currently she is the Director of the Unidad de Mujeres y Ciencia (Unit of Women and Science), of the Ministry of Education and Science.

Money management in our daily lives: we earn, we invest, we pay taxes

Ms. María Pazos Moran

Head of Research Studies of the Institute for Tax Studies. Madrid

María Pazos Morán, mathematician, has worked in the ministries of Labor and Economy and Treasury. She has extensive international experience from Harvard University (USA), from which she earned a master in Statistics, in the Office of Labor Statistics of the United States and in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) where she worked as Administrator in the department of Social Policies and directed, from 2002 to 2003, the publication ŒBenefits and Wages, OECD Indicators. She is a specialist in the comparison of tax and benefit systems and in the evaluation of their impact on the job market. Currently, she is Head of Studies of Investigation for the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (Institute of Fiscal Studies), where she coordinate the investigations on ‘Fiscal and Gender Policies’.

She also works with the following educational activities:

- Professor of the Masters Programs in Feminism and Gender. University Complutense de Madrid.

- Professor of the Official Graduate Program in Gender Studies. University of Vigo

- Director and professor of the course The Impact of Gender on Public Policies. Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (Institute of Fiscal Studies)


She has also participated in diverse feminist organizations, especially in the Frente de Liberación de la Mujer (Women’s Liberation Move), in the Comisión Pro Derecho al Aborto (Pro-Choice Commission) and in the Forum of Feminist Policies. She is currently the Speaker for the Civil Platform for the Untransferable Permission of Paternity.



Lastly, she is the author of numerous publications related to economy, social policies and taxation from the perspective of gender.

Money management in our daily lives: we earn, we invest, we pay taxes

Ms. Tamar Pitch

Dept. Sociology of Law. University of Camerino Italy

Is professor of philosophy and sociology of law at the school of law of the university of Perugia. She is codirector of the journal Studi sulla questione criminale and a member of the scientific board of many Italian and international journals. Her main areas of expertise are criminology, human rights and women and law. Here latest books are Diritti fondamentali: disuguaglianze sociali, differenze culturali, differenza sessuale, Giappichelli, 2004; La società della prevenzione, Carocci, 2006.
Two of her books have been recently translated into Spanish: Responsabilidades limitadas: actores, conflictos y justicia penal, AdHoc, Buenos Aires, 2003.

Aggression and dominance as a mark of masculinity

Ms. Elena Larrauri Pijoan

Dept. Criminal Law and Criminology. Autonomous University of Barcelona

Elena Larrauri is a permanent professor of criminal law and criminology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has published many articles and different books, including: La herencia de la criminología crítica (The inheritance of critical criminology) (Madrid, Siglo XXI,1991), Mujeres, derecho penal y criminología (Women, criminal law and criminology) (Madrid, Siglo XXI,1994), Criminología crítica y violencia de género (Critical criminology and gender violence) (Madrid, Trotta, 2007); (with J.Bustos) Victimología (Victimology) (Barcelona, P.P.U.,1993); (with D.Varona) Violencia Doméstica y Legítima defensa (Domestic violence and legitimate defence) (Barcelona, E.U.B., 1995), (with E. Sanchez) El nuevo delito de acoso sexual y su sanción administrativa en el ámbito laboral (The new crime of sexual harassment and its administrative sanction in the labour field) (Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2000), (with J.Cid) Penas Alternativas a la Prisión (Alternative sentences to Prison) (Barcelona, Bosch, 1997), (with J.Cid) Teorías Criminológicas (Criminological Theories) (Barcelona, Bosch, 2001), Jueces Penales y Penas en España (Criminal Judges and Sentences in Spain) (Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2002) and (with J.Cid) Delincuencia Violenta: Prevención, Tratamiento o castigo (Violent Delinquency: Prevention, Treatment or punishment) (Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2005).
She has had a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Frankfurt University (Germany, 1989-1991; 1993; 2002) and from the Fulbright-La Caixa Foundation at Santa Barbara University (California, 1986-1987). She has been a visiting professor at the Institute of Criminology of Hamburg University (1994) and visiting researcher at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1989), at the Institute of Criminology of Oslo (1996) and at New York University (1998; 2005).

Aggression and dominance as a mark of masculinity

Mr. Andrés Montero Gómez

President of the Spanish Society for Psychology of Violence. Madrid

Andres Montero Gomez is a psychologist and has a master’s degree in Forensic Psychology from the Complutense University in Madrid. He is President of the Violence Psychology Society, a fellow of the International Society for Research on Aggression and member of the Spanish Society for Clinical, Legal and Forensic Psychology. He is the author of a dozen scientific essays, including studies on the Stockholm syndrome in female victims of violence and on the neurocognitive correlates of violence of systematic aggressors. He has given conferences and seminars on terrorist violence, violence towards women and criminal behaviour in different cities of Spain and countries of the European Union, the Maghreb and Latin America. As a visiting professor, he has given classes at the University of Barcelona, the University of the Balearics, the Rey Juan Carlos University, the University of Granada and the Complutense University in Madrid. He is a member of the Commission of Experts of the State Observatory on Gender Violence.

Aggression and dominance as a mark of masculinity

Mr. Jouni Varanka

Department for Gender Equality. Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. Finland

Has worked in the Gender Equality Unit of the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health since 2003. At this moment he acts as a Project Manager with the topic men and gender equality as his main responsibility. During 2002-2004 he was the secretary of the Subcommittee on Men’s Issues in the Council of Gender Equality. He has written the publication Men and Gender Equality Policy and organised several conferences and events dealing with men and gender equality. He is the vice-chair of the Committee of Women’s Issues in the Church of Finland. (jouni.varanka[at]stm.fi).

Men faced with equality; equality with men?

Ms. Mª Jesus Izquierdo Benito

Dept. of Sociology. University of Barcelona

Doctor in Economy, Permanent Professor of Sociology and Director of the Observatory for Equality of the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. Author, among other works of: “Los costos ocultos de la masculinidad” (The hidden costs of masculinity), (La manzana no. 2: 2006); “¿En qué consiste la masculinidad? De lo privado a lo público de lo personal a lo relacional” (What does masculinity consist of? From private to public, from personal to relational), Debates sobre masculinidades (Debates on masculinities) (UNAM, PUEG: 2006). Cuando los amores matan. Conflicto y cambio en las relaciones de edad y de género. (When love kills. Conflict and change in age and gender relationships) (Ed. Libertarias: 2000); El malestar en la desigualdad (Unease in inequality) (Ed. Cátedra: 1998).

"What it takes to be a man:the risks of masculinity"

Mr. Luis Bonino Mendez

Psychotherapist. Director of the Centre for the Study of the Male Condition. Madrid

Psychotherapist and medical psychiatrist, he has trained in Mental Health and in Public Health in Argentina since the seventies. Since the eighties he has specialised in the psycho-social problems of gender relationships, males and masculinity.
He has lived in Madrid since 1990 and he has been permanently engaged in promoting mental health and the autonomy of women and men. Currently, his interests lie in strategies for male change towards equality and shared well-being, as well as in the problems of male identity, fatherhood and male violence and its effect on women.
He is the Director of the Centre for Studies of the Male Condition in Madrid, an institution that has been engaged, since 1993, in the research, assistance and teaching of topics related to this condition.
Over the last twenty years he has participated in different Spanish and European governmental and non-governmental organisations, as well as in European and Latin American universities, as a lecturer, consultant and educator of professionals in the social sciences and health sectors. He is currently an advisor for the Spanish Ministry of Health in the area of males, health and gender.
He has written many articles and has just published a book in English and Hungarian about the topic that he has been developing for 15 years: “Micro male chauvinisms”. They can be read on his website, www.luisbonino.com
For the last sixteen years, he has been engaged in Spain in promoting the creation and activities of groups of men involved in eradicating gender inequality.

Construction of masculinity and gender relations"