The Minister for Territorial Policy and Civil Service, Carolina Darias, signed yesterday the III Plan for Gender Equality in the General Administration of the State (AGE) and its public bodies with the trade union representatives of CSIF, UGT and CIG, following the agreement reached in the Negotiating Bureau of the Administration.

Together with the minister, the Secretary of State for Territorial Policy and Civil Service, Francisco Hernández Spínola, the Secretary General for Civil Service, Javier Rueda, and the Director-General of the Civil Service, Isabel Borrel, attended. The event was attended by representatives of FSIF, UGT and IGC.

In the design of the III Plan, said Darias, the approaches to both the Strategic Plan for Equal Opportunities and the State Pact against Gender Violence have been integrated and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ‘5 gender equality’, ‘8 decent jobs’ and ‘10 reduction of inequalities’ have been included.

For the diagnosis, in the elaboration of the III Plan, the General Directorate of the Public Service carried out a specific and pioneering study, which analyzes the distribution of men and women in the Administration by groups and levels, ministries, membership bodies, territorial distribution, age, legal ties, etc., in addition to analyzing the figures on access, career, training, gap and conciliation in order to detect possible inequalities. Added to this are the results of the ‘Final Follow-up Report of the AGE II Equality Plan’, with a 95% degree of implementation.

With this information, the following specific and transversal objectives of the III Equality Plan have been defined:

1. Measuring to improve

2. Cultural change

3. Gender mainstreaming (gender mainstreaming in the work of AGE staff)

4. Early detection and comprehensive approach to especially vulnerable situations .

The AGE III Equality Plan has been developed within the framework of the Working Group of the Technical Committee on Equality, under the coordination of the Directorate-General for Civil Service. In addition to the participation of trade union organizations (FSIF, UGT, CCOO and IGC), all ministerial departments and their Human Resources and Equality units, InMujer and the Government Delegation for Gender Violence have been counted.

The III Plan develops 68 cross-cutting measures, articulated in six action axes:

- Axis 1. Instrumental measures for an organizational transformation.

- Axis 2. Awareness, training and training.

- Axis 3. Working conditions and professional development.

- Axis 4. Co-responsibility and reconciliation of personal, family and work life.

- Axis 5. [Violence against women].

- Axis 6. Intersectionality and situations of special protection.

As an essential element of the III Plan with respect to the previous ones, the incorporation of impact and implementation indicators is highlighted in order to know both the degree of implementation and the effectiveness. The III Equality Plan represents the firm, ambitious and progressive will to achieve gender equality in AGE in real terms, with the aim of making it a benchmark for development and implementation in other future plans or frameworks, not only in the public sphere but also in the private sphere.