The Constitution also has its mothers, and Maria Dolors Calvet i Puig is one of them, along with the 27 other women involved in the constituent process of the Transition to Democracy in Spain. She was also the only female parliamentarian to participate in the drafting of the 1979 Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, and was a member of the first legislature of the Catalan Parliament. In the early 1970s, she moved to Hospitalet de Llobregat where she took part in the organisation of the local committee of the PSUC (Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia). As well as being a politician, she holds a degree in information science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and a PhD from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). She has also worked as a lecturer in town and country planning in the Department of Construction Engineering at the UPC, and is a member of the Group for Equal Opportunities in Architecture, Science and Technology (GIOPACT), which defends equality and the rights of women scientists. Among other institutions, she collaborates with the Friends of the United Nations association, which organised International Women’s Year in 1975. In 2015, she received the Medal of Honour from the Catalan Parliament.
She was one of the 27 women involved in the constituent process of the Spanish Transition and one of the ‘mothers’ of the Constitution. She was also the only female MP to participate in drafting the 1979 Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia.