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Cecilia Castaño Collado (born 10 February 1953) is a PhD in
Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...
, professor of
Applied Economics Applied economics is the application of economic theory and econometrics in specific settings. As one of the two sets of fields of economics (the other set being the ''core''), it is typically characterized by the application of the ''core'', i.e ...
, and lecturer at the
Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...
's Department of Applied Economics. She is an expert in information technology and its effect on women's employment and work. She has conducted numerous investigations on the digital gender gap and women's access to the
information society An information society is a society or subculture where the usage, Content creation, creation, information distribution, distribution, manipulation and information integration, integration of information is a significant activity. Its main drive ...
. In 2006 she created the Research Program on Gender and the Information Society of the
Open University of Catalonia The Open University of Catalonia (; ) is a private Open supported learning, open university based in Barcelona, Spain. The UOC offers graduate and postgraduate programs in Catalan language, Catalan, Spanish language, Spanish and English languag ...
(UOC). She has been a visiting researcher at
Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
,
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, and
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.


Professional career

Cecilia Castaño graduated in
Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...
from the
Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...
(UCM) in 1974 and received her doctorate in 1983 with the thesis ''La Industria del Automóvil en España: Efectos de los procesos de cambio tecnológico sobre las condiciones del mercado de trabajo'' (The Automobile Industry in Spain: Effects of the Processes of Technological Change on the Conditions of the Labor Market). In 1975, she began her teaching career at the UCM's Faculty of Political Science and Sociology; in 1976, she became part of the Department of Economic Structure, which she has been a professor of since 1992. From 1977 to 1999, she was a consultant in the Technical Cabinet of the
Workers' Commissions The Workers' Commissions () since the 1970s has become the largest trade union in Spain. It has more than one million members, and is the most successful union in labor elections, competing with the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), which is ...
Trade Union. From 1983 to 1984 she was an advisor in the Technical Cabinet of the Minister of Labor and Social Security of the Government of Spain, under minister
Joaquín Almunia Joaquín Almunia Amann (born 17 June 1948) is a Spanish politician and former member of the European Commission. During his tenure in the two Barroso Commissions, he was European commissioner responsible for economic and monetary affairs (2004 ...
. From 1984 to 1985 she was a member of the Research Team on New Technologies, Economics, and Society, directed by the sociologist
Manuel Castells Manuel Castells Oliván (; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist. He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled '' The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture''. He is a scholar of the information society, c ...
. From 1987 to 1988 she collaborated with the Organization and Management of Innovation (OGEIN) Program of the Public Company Foundation of the National Institute of Industry. In the mid-1990s, she reoriented her research career from studies on the impact of technological change in the labor market to the analysis of the relationship between gender and information technologies. In 1999 she published the work ''Diferencia o discriminación. La situación de las mujeres en el mercado de trabajo y el impacto de las tecnologías de la información'' (Difference or Discrimination: The Situation of Women in the Labor Market and the Impact of Information Technologies). From 2000 to 2005 Castaño directed research projects at the
University of Seville The University of Seville (''Universidad de Sevilla'') is a university in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. Founded under the name of ''Colegio Santa María de Jesús'' in 1505, in 2022 it has a student body of 57,214,U-Ranking Universidades español ...
's Regional Development Institute, and from 2000 to 2006 at the
University of Alcalá The University of Alcalá () is a public university located in Alcalá de Henares, a city 35 km (22 miles) northeast of Madrid in Spain and also the third-largest city of the region. It was founded in 1293 as a ''Studium Generale'' for t ...
's Service Sector Research Laboratory (Servilab). In 2002 she participated in the creation of the UCM's Equality Commission of the Faculty of Policies. From 2003 to 2008 she was member of the Scientific Committee of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) of the
Open University of Catalonia The Open University of Catalonia (; ) is a private Open supported learning, open university based in Barcelona, Spain. The UOC offers graduate and postgraduate programs in Catalan language, Catalan, Spanish language, Spanish and English languag ...
, directed by Manuel Castells. She was a member of the Complutense University's advisory board, as well as a member of the advisory board of its School of Labor Relations. In 2005 she published ''Las mujeres y las tecnologías de la información. Internet y la trama de nuestra vida'' (Women and Information Technologies: Internet and the Fabric of Our Lives), a book in which she analyzes to what extent and by what means information technologies contribute to the full incorporation of women in economic and social activity and its effects, raising the new forms of
gender inequality Gender inequality is the social phenomenon in which people are not treated equally on the basis of gender. This inequality can be caused by gender discrimination or sexism. The treatment may arise from distinctions regarding biology, psychology ...
produced by digital illiteracy. From 2006 to 2012 she directed IN3's Gender and ICT research program, created to analyze the barriers to the incorporation and permanence of women in university studies, research, and business of the information technology field, as well as the policies that are implemented in different areas to overcome these barriers. Castaño also leads UCM's e-Equality Observatory, which since 2006 has been studying the situation of the incorporation of women into the Internet in Spain and Europe. In 2007 she was a visiting scholar at
Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. In 2008, she published ''La segunda brecha digital'' (The Second Digital Divide), incorporating into the debate on the gender digital divide the need to pay attention not only to connectivity, but also to the use that men and women make of technology. In 2015 she directed the collective book ''Las mujeres y la gran recesión'' (Women and the Great Recession), in which the data of the crisis and its impact on women's rights are analyzed. She is a member of the editorial board of the Feminism Collection of the Editorial Chair and member of the editorial board of the journal ''Politics and Society'' of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (since 1997), and writes for various media.


Second digital divide

Castaño has dedicated several works to the analysis of the gender
digital divide The digital divide is the unequal access to information technology, digital technology, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the internet. The digital divide worsens inequality around access to information and resources. In the Information ...
, and has investigated and warned about the existence of the "second digital gender gap", referring not only to inequality in access, but also in the different use that men and women make of technology.


Books

* ''Cambio tecnológico y mercado de trabajo en la industria del automóvil'' (1985), Ministry of Labor and Social Security, * ''Tecnología, empleo y trabajo en España'' (1994), Alianza Editorial, * ''Salud, dinero y amor: Cómo viven las mujeres españolas de hoy'' (1996), Alianza Editorial * ''Las mujeres y las tecnologías de la información: Internet y la trama de nuestra vida'' (2005), Alianza Editorial, * ''La segunda brecha digital'' (2008), Ediciones Cátedra, * ''Mujeres y poder empresarial en España'' (2009), Cecilia Castaño Collado, Joaquina Laffarga Briones, Carlos Iglesias Fernández, Pilar de Fuentes Ruiz, Juan Martín Fernández, Raquel Llorente Heras, María J. Charlo, Yolanda Giner Manso, Susana Vázquez Cupeiro, Miriam Núñez Torrado, José Luis Martínez Cantos, Madrid: Instituto de la Mujer * ''Género y TIC. Presencia, posición y políticas'' (2010), UOC Ediciones, * ''Género, ciencia y tecnologías de la información'' (2014), Juliet Webster and Cecilia Castaño, Editorial Aresta, * ''Las mujeres en la gran recesión'' (2015), Olga Cantó Sánchez, Cecilia Castaño Collado, Inmaculada Cebrián López, Diego Dueñas Fernández, Juan Antonio Fernández Cordón, Carlos Iglesias Fernández, Raquel Llorente Heras, Miguel Ángel Malo Ocaña, Juan Martín Fernández, José Luis Martínez Cantos, Gloria Moreno Raymundo, Constanza Tobío, Editorial Cátedra,


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Castano, Cecilia 1953 births Complutense University of Madrid alumni Spanish gender studies academics Living people People from Almería Spanish economists Spanish feminists Spanish political scientists Spanish women economists Academic staff of the University of Alcalá Academic staff of the University of Seville Women political writers Women technology writers Spanish women political scientists Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid