The status of women in Spain has evolved from the country 's earliest history, culture, and social norms. Throughout the late 20th century, Spain has undergone a transition from Francoist Spain , during which women's rights were severely restricted, to a democratic society where gender equality is a fundamental principle. As such, during the past decades the position of women in Spanish society has greatly improved. Women in the broader Spanish population outnumber men by ,, totaling an estimated group of 24 million as of July During the Francoist era , Spanish social values codified a stance of morality that established rigid standards female sexuality by restricting employment opportunities and prohibiting divorce , contraception , and abortion. At the height of the Francoist era, Spanish law and legislation discriminated against women who were married. Marriages had to be canonical that is, performed under Roman Catholic law and regulations if even one of the partners was Catholic, which meant effectively that all marriages in Spain had to be sanctioned by the church.


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Spanish emigration to the New World was one of the most significant waves of relocation in human history, in terms of numbers and the impact on the American landscape and its people. One of the key features of Spanish emigration to America in this period is the significant presence of women. Her doctoral research focused on the analysis of the emigration of women and families to the Viceroyalty of Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly in relation to the processes of social mobility of the colony. Her research has been published in a number of articles and essays, and she is a member of several national research groups, as well as an international network of consumer studies. Her current research forms part of a larger project, which applies historical, archaeological and archaeometric methodologies to evidence of encounters between peoples and goods from Europe, America, Africa and Asia that took place on the Isthmus of Panama during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the episode, which is available to podcast on iTunes and Soundcloud, they discuss Spanish women on transatlantic voyages in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While the earliest settlers tended to comprise young male recruits as part of groups on conquest and settlement expeditions, the composition of Spanish emigration to America seems to have changed by the mid-sixteenth century. Emigrants now tended to come from non-elite urban groups, comprising artisans and small-tradesmen.
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