Participation presents patterns of intersectional gender inequality. Due to their workload, female workers face many more challenges reconciling social participation with daily life. For this reason, recent years’ efforts have focused on including women’s voices, needs, and proposals in the institutional spaces of the Barcelona City Council.

In fact, mainstreaming gender in participatory processes and eliminating obstacles to women’s participation in institutions are longstanding priorities, as participation and gender policies attest. Indeed, co-production processes including women’s entities, criteria, and gender actions increased from 2.9% to 66.7% from 2017 to 2020.

In this context, care services and adapted schedules are necessary to ensuring that women are present in participatory processes.