Culture
At the City Council we want to develop a cultural policy that promotes egalitarian values, and that respects and promotes both the collective memory and the role of women, which is often underestimated. We also wish to provide support for women’s authorship and value their artistic contributions. The “Report on Barcelona City Council Cultural Programming 2016-2017 from a Gender Perspective. Open in a new window”, commissioned by the Gender Mainstreaming Department and drawn up by LaGroc and i-LabSo, focuses on this.
We can acknowledge the contribution that women make and have made to culture by means of municipal prizes and distinctions. These are mechanisms which recognise the merit and prestige of city organisations and individuals that, in many cases, are a way of distributing economic resources. We are working to make this an equitable distribution. Barcelona City Council is analysing its prizes and distinctions from a gender perspective and issues reports. Open in a new window to analyse and gradually correct the biases.
We are working to reclaim the memory of city women, promoting a catalogue of names that recognises women equally in the cultural, political, social and scientific world.
We also promote actions, projects and events that bring together the experience of women throughout Barcelona’s history.
Other actions to promote the presence of women in culture: