The scenario of conciliation to equality in the advertising environment. A comparison between the education sector and the professional

Abstract

In recent decades, conciliation has emerged as an issue of social concern. Thus, in Spain emerge a number of regulations dealing with this problem. Specifically, in 2007 it promulgated the Law for Effective Equality of Women and Men that makes it mandatory, for certain companies, of develop and implement equality plans. In order to determine the degree of application of this rule and compare the conditions for conciliation between teachers and professionals in the advertising industry, we conducted an analysis of content information relating to the creation of units and the equality plans in the Spanish universities that offer studies in advertising, and we conducted a survey for teachers and employees in the advertising industry in order to measure work family levels and their perceptions on changes because of the law. The results show that public universities have implemented greater extent the legal precepts associated with the conciliation than public ones. In turn, there are differences in the consideration of conflict family/work between teachers and professionals: the teachers consider that the family sphere interferes with the laboral one while advertisers perceive that the overflow of the laboral sphere toward the family one is higher. However, both types of workers do not perceive a family friendly culture in their works, and they do not perceive changes because of the law.