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## Spanish university lecturers work more hours than their contracts stipulate and 50% work more than one extra day per week

07/07/2021 |
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Eighty per cent of Spanish university lecturers work more than the established 37.5 hours and fifty per cent do more than one extra day of work per week, according to the analysis of data collected in a survey on teaching and research staff at different Spanish universities by Ismael Cabero Fayos of the Department of Education and Specific Didactics and Irene Epifanio López of the Department of Mathematics at the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló and member of the University Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies.

The paper entitled "A Data Science Analysis of Academic Staff Workload Profiles in Spanish Universities: Gender Gap Laid Bare" has been published in issue 11 of the journal *Education Sciences.* It analyses the workloads (both academic and domestic) of university teaching and research staff, with the aim of providing relevant data to be considered when applying modifications to current legislation.

The survey, carried out prior to the March 2020 lockdown, involved 703 participants, 51% women (356) and 49% men (347). Several factors were taken into account, such as gender, professional category, age and subjects taught; in addition, the tasks evaluated included not only academic tasks, but also domestic tasks. In the opinion of the research team, "having a snapshot of the Spanish academic staff can be very useful when carrying out the mandatory gender impact assessment to change laws, policies or programmes".

The findings show that, although teaching tasks are basically identical between genders, women spend on average more time on tutoring, class preparation, post-teaching tasks and supervision of students, "which could be considered as more time devoted to improving the quality of teaching", say Cabero and Epifanio. The difference between women and men is four hours per week, which means that one ECTS credit is on average 47 hours per year for a woman and 40.5 hours for a man. However, say the researchers, "the quality of teaching is hardly taken into account in the national evaluation system for promotion to a higher teaching category". In terms of research, the data show that the difference between the two groups for full-time staff is minimal, about 0.6 hours per week.

**Reference:**  
  
«A Data Science Analysis of Academic Staff Workload Profiles in Spanish Universities: Gender Gap Laid Bare». Ismael Cabero e Irene Epifanio. *Educ. Sci.* 2021, 11 (7), 317. <https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11070317>

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