The contribution of the Spanish Constitutional Court in the deconstruction of discrimination for reason of sex

Authors

  • M.ª Josefa Ridaura Martínez Universidad de Valencia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/aijc.24.10

Abstract

This paper offers a study of the Spanish Constitutional Court’s doctrine on equality and the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex. It includes an analysis of the Court’s case law from its first judgments in 1981 – after it was set up – until the end of 2019, going into the numerous pronouncements issued, given the severe reality of sex discrimination that it has had to face, both normatively and de facto. This will allow us to confirm its laudable contribution, both in the incorporation and in the reaffirmation of conceptual categories aimed at dismantling discrimination on this ground, within the framework of a constitutional text that preaches the equality of women as a constitutional requirement.

Published

2020-12-09

Issue

Section

STUDIES