Marcela Jabbaz Churba, PhD in Sociology from the University of Valencia. Director of the University Institute for Women's Studies. She was a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) in Argentina, director of the Centre for Organizational Studies at the University of Buenos Aires and Lecturer in the same university.

She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at different universities in Argentina. Since December 2010 she is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Valencia in the areas of Research Methodology and Sociology of Gender. She also teaches in-service training courses on Inclusion of Gender Perspective in Public Administration  to civil servants of different departments.

Her lines of research and her scientific production are related to gender studies (gender gaps, divorce and child custody, equality policies) and intercultural diversity. As a feminist activist, she is member of the Federación de Mujeres Progresistas.  

Some recent publications are:

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela y Xelo Sanchís Ridaura (2026). Género y catástrofes: vulnerabilidades e incidencia de las mujeres tras la dana. En Moncusí, Albert y Fernando Esteban: La catástrofe como espejo. La dana de Valencia en clave de vulnerabilidad, IUCIE: Universitat de València.  https://www.uv.es/icieweb/MiA57_Moncusi_Esteban_La%20catastrofe.pdf

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela y Mónica Gil Junquero  (2025). The Direct and Indirect Gender Pay Gap: Contributions for Its Measurement at the University. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 190, 129.146. 

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2024). Hacia una ciencia con curvas en Europa. Un nuevo diseño para las trayectorias científicas (pp. 143-164). En Goren y Suárez (eds) Brechas de género y políticas públicas. Desafíos para la equidad en el trabajo. José C. Paz (Argentina): Edunpaz, editorial universitaria.

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela; Inés Soler Julve; Mónica Gil Junquero y Beatriz Belando Garín (2023). Informes d’impacte de gènere en la normativa universitària: guia de recomanacions i bones pràctiques en les universitats de la Xarxa Vives. Xarxa Vives d’Unitversitats: Universitat Jaume I.

Lozano, Claudia y Marcela Jabbaz Churba (2024). La decisión de emigrar o retornar: La percepción de las diferencias entre sistemas científicos en trayectorias científicas internacionales. Revista Iberoamericana De Ciencia, Tecnología Y Sociedad, 19 (57), 203-228.

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2023). Las políticas de igualdad en la Unión Europea: Fases, perspectivas y agenda, en Bar Cendón, Antonio; Martínez López-Sáez, Mónica (coord.), La Unión Europea ante la crisis: Derechos, valores, seguridad y defensa. Madrid: Aranzadi.

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2023). Brecha salarial de género en la Universitat de València /2021. https://www.uv.es/igualtat/webnova2014/INFORME_BSG.pdf

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela; Mónica Gil Junquero e Inés Soler Julve (2022). Informes de impacto de género en la normativa universitaria. Herramientas y estrategia para su implementación en la Universitat de València. ISBN 978-84-09-46756-3 https://www.uv.es/igualtat/webnova2014/Guia_EIG.pdf

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela y Juan Antonio Rodríguez-del-Pino (2022). A visceral method to study gender-based violence among youth. Analise Social, 243, LVII (2), 232 - 255. https://doi.org/10.31447/AS00032573.2022243.02

Rodríguez del Pino, Juan A. y Marcela Jabbaz Churba (2022). Deconstruyendo machos, construyendo personas. Relatos de la masculinidad hegemónica en España, Revista de Estudios Sociales, 79, 108-124. https://doi.org/10.7440/res79.2022.07

Soronellas Masdeu, Montserrat; Carmen Gregorio Gil y Marcela Jabbaz Churba (2022). ¡Apáñatelas como puedas! Dilemas morales en el cuidado familiar de personas dependientes durante la pandemia. Disparidades, Revista de Antropología, 77, 1–9, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3989/dra.2022.001b

Soronellas, Montserrat y Marcela Jabbaz (2022). Cuidadoras familiares frente al shock pandémico (pp. 93-145). En Dolors Comas-d'Argemir y Silvia Bofill-Poch (eds) Cuidar a mayores y dependientes en tiempos de la covid-19, Valencia(Espanya): Tirant Lo Blanch

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2021). Custody and Care of Children in Spain: Can the Two Rights be Reconciled? Feminist Legal Studies, 29, Springer-Nature, 351-373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-021-09466-2

Samper Gras, Teresa; Marcela Jabbaz; Sergio Tomás y Andrea Ferrer (2021). ¡No son las criaturas, es la academia! Brechas salariales de género y carrera investigadora en la universidad. Asparkía. Investigación feminista 39, 165-184

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2021). Infancia alterada en pleitos por la custodia de menores. Áreas. Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales, 42, 39-50.

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2021). ¿Participa el funcionariado de las políticas de igualdad? La importancia de su implicación en los informes de impacto de género. En Juan A. Rodríguez del Pino y María Angeles Abellán (eds). Participación y sostenibilidad en la sociedad valenciana, Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela y Capitolina Díaz Martínez (2020). Menores en disputa. Custodia, visitas y patria potestad en la Comunidad Valenciana. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 220 p.

Marcela Jabbaz Churba; Teresa Samper-Gras y Capitolina Díaz Martínez (2019). La brecha salarial de género en las instituciones científicas. Estudio de caso. Convergencia, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 80, 1-27.

Marcela Jabbaz Churba y Capitolina Díaz Martínez (2019). Menores en disputa. Custodia, visitas y patria potestad en la Comunidad Valenciana. Madrid: Tirant lo Blanch

Marcela Jabbaz Churba; Juan Antonio Rodríguez del Pino y Nina Navaja Pertegás (eds) (2019). Miradas de género: Una sociología sin barreras, cerraduras ni cerrojos. Barcelona: Icaria.

Marcela Jabbaz Churba (2019). Gender perceptions and conditioning in the life and career aspirations of young people. The case of Valencia. DG Justice, EU. http://freetochoose.eu/project/coming-out-spain-report/

Marcela Jabbaz Churba y Capitolina Díaz Martínez (2017). La implementación de políticas de igualdad de género en las administraciones públicas. Madrid: Tirant Lo Blanch.

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Ruth M. Mestre i Mestre, professor of philosophy of law and member of Gender studies research institute of the University of Valencia, is a specialist in Feminist legal Theory.

She has published together with Lorena Sosa Ensuring the non-discriminatory implementation of measures against violence against women and domestic violence: Article 4, paragraph 3 of the Istanbul Convention, Collection of papers addressing the issue of Violence against women (2022), Council Of Europe. Together with S. Jonhsdotter, he coordinated the report FGM in Europe: An analysis of Court Cases, at the request of the European Commission (published by the European Commission-Directorate General-Justice (2016).

In addition, she has been lead researcher of the Project Democracy and political participation of women. A Critical comparison of new analysis and strategies, funded by the Ministry of Equality. She has also been main researcher  in the Spanish state of the DAPHNE project - EURONET, funded by the Daphne programme of the EU, to draw up plans of action against FGM.

Doctor in law by the Universitat de Valencia, she holds a master's degree in legal sociology from the International Institute of Juridical sociology of Oñati and a master's degree in theory of law by the Académie Européenne de Théorie du Droit, Brussels. He has been Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for research in ethnic relations University of Warwick (UK). He has participated in numerous research projects in the Spanish state and in two Daphne projects (EU) on Mutilation/cutting Female Genitals in Europe.

Among his publications include the articles written together with Sara Johnsdotter, Court cases, cultural expertise and FGM in Europe, Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Vol 78, 2019, Special Issue Cultural Expertise and socio-legal studies (Austin Sarat, ed.) and FGM in Europe. Public discourse vs. empirical evidence, International Journal of Law, crime and Justice, 51, 2017. His books include La Caixa de Pandora. Introduction to feminist legal theory, PUV, 2006, and the coordination of two collective books: Women, rights and citizenship, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia 2009 and, together with Yanira Zúñiga, Democracy and Women's political participation. Visions from Europe and Latin America, Tirant lo Blanch, 2013; Democracy and political participation of women. Critical study comparison of new analysis and strategies, Instituto de la Mujer, 2014, http://www.inmujer.gob.es/areasTematicas/estudios/estudioslinea2014/Home.htm; or  articles in edited books as 'The faces of prostitution in the Spanish state: between migration laws and the criminal code, in R. Osborne: sex workers. Rights, migration and traffic in the S. XXI, Ed. Bellaterra, 2004.

In the field of post-graduate teaching she is currently a professor at the Master in Human Rights, Democracy and Jusiticia International of the Facultat de dret of the Universitat de Valencia, the Master of Agents of Equality of the Universitat de Valencia and the Masters of the Equality of women and men of the University of the Basque Country. She has lectured also, by way of example, in the European Master of Human Rights (Venice, Italy), in the Phd in human Rights and Globalisation at the University Pablo de Olavide (Seville), or in the Course of specialization in human rights from the Andean University of Ecuador.

She has been Director of the Legal Clinic for Social Justice of the University of Valencia and vice-president of the European Network of Clinical Legal Education (ENCLE). She is currently Delegate of the Revice-rector in the field of diversity at the Universitat de Valencia

Marcela Jabbaz Churba, PhD in Sociology from the University of Valencia. Director of the University Institute for Women's Studies. She was a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) in Argentina, director of the Centre for Organizational Studies at the University of Buenos Aires and Lecturer in the same university.

She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at different universities in Argentina. Since December 2010 she is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Valencia in the areas of Research Methodology and Sociology of Gender. She also teaches in-service training courses on Inclusion of Gender Perspective in Public Administration  to civil servants of different departments.

Her lines of research and her scientific production are related to gender studies (gender gaps, divorce and child custody, equality policies) and intercultural diversity. As a feminist activist, she is member of the Federación de Mujeres Progresistas.  

Some recent publications are:

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela y Xelo Sanchís Ridaura (2026). Género y catástrofes: vulnerabilidades e incidencia de las mujeres tras la dana. En Moncusí, Albert y Fernando Esteban: La catástrofe como espejo. La dana de Valencia en clave de vulnerabilidad, IUCIE: Universitat de València.  https://www.uv.es/icieweb/MiA57_Moncusi_Esteban_La%20catastrofe.pdf

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela y Mónica Gil Junquero  (2025). The Direct and Indirect Gender Pay Gap: Contributions for Its Measurement at the University. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 190, 129.146. 

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2024). Hacia una ciencia con curvas en Europa. Un nuevo diseño para las trayectorias científicas (pp. 143-164). En Goren y Suárez (eds) Brechas de género y políticas públicas. Desafíos para la equidad en el trabajo. José C. Paz (Argentina): Edunpaz, editorial universitaria.

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela; Inés Soler Julve; Mónica Gil Junquero y Beatriz Belando Garín (2023). Informes d’impacte de gènere en la normativa universitària: guia de recomanacions i bones pràctiques en les universitats de la Xarxa Vives. Xarxa Vives d’Unitversitats: Universitat Jaume I.

Lozano, Claudia y Marcela Jabbaz Churba (2024). La decisión de emigrar o retornar: La percepción de las diferencias entre sistemas científicos en trayectorias científicas internacionales. Revista Iberoamericana De Ciencia, Tecnología Y Sociedad, 19 (57), 203-228.

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2023). Las políticas de igualdad en la Unión Europea: Fases, perspectivas y agenda, en Bar Cendón, Antonio; Martínez López-Sáez, Mónica (coord.), La Unión Europea ante la crisis: Derechos, valores, seguridad y defensa. Madrid: Aranzadi.

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2023). Brecha salarial de género en la Universitat de València /2021. https://www.uv.es/igualtat/webnova2014/INFORME_BSG.pdf

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela; Mónica Gil Junquero e Inés Soler Julve (2022). Informes de impacto de género en la normativa universitaria. Herramientas y estrategia para su implementación en la Universitat de València. ISBN 978-84-09-46756-3 https://www.uv.es/igualtat/webnova2014/Guia_EIG.pdf

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela y Juan Antonio Rodríguez-del-Pino (2022). A visceral method to study gender-based violence among youth. Analise Social, 243, LVII (2), 232 - 255. https://doi.org/10.31447/AS00032573.2022243.02

Rodríguez del Pino, Juan A. y Marcela Jabbaz Churba (2022). Deconstruyendo machos, construyendo personas. Relatos de la masculinidad hegemónica en España, Revista de Estudios Sociales, 79, 108-124. https://doi.org/10.7440/res79.2022.07

Soronellas Masdeu, Montserrat; Carmen Gregorio Gil y Marcela Jabbaz Churba (2022). ¡Apáñatelas como puedas! Dilemas morales en el cuidado familiar de personas dependientes durante la pandemia. Disparidades, Revista de Antropología, 77, 1–9, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3989/dra.2022.001b

Soronellas, Montserrat y Marcela Jabbaz (2022). Cuidadoras familiares frente al shock pandémico (pp. 93-145). En Dolors Comas-d'Argemir y Silvia Bofill-Poch (eds) Cuidar a mayores y dependientes en tiempos de la covid-19, Valencia(Espanya): Tirant Lo Blanch

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2021). Custody and Care of Children in Spain: Can the Two Rights be Reconciled? Feminist Legal Studies, 29, Springer-Nature, 351-373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-021-09466-2

Samper Gras, Teresa; Marcela Jabbaz; Sergio Tomás y Andrea Ferrer (2021). ¡No son las criaturas, es la academia! Brechas salariales de género y carrera investigadora en la universidad. Asparkía. Investigación feminista 39, 165-184

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2021). Infancia alterada en pleitos por la custodia de menores. Áreas. Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales, 42, 39-50.

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela (2021). ¿Participa el funcionariado de las políticas de igualdad? La importancia de su implicación en los informes de impacto de género. En Juan A. Rodríguez del Pino y María Angeles Abellán (eds). Participación y sostenibilidad en la sociedad valenciana, Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.

Jabbaz Churba, Marcela y Capitolina Díaz Martínez (2020). Menores en disputa. Custodia, visitas y patria potestad en la Comunidad Valenciana. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 220 p.

Marcela Jabbaz Churba; Teresa Samper-Gras y Capitolina Díaz Martínez (2019). La brecha salarial de género en las instituciones científicas. Estudio de caso. Convergencia, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 80, 1-27.

Marcela Jabbaz Churba y Capitolina Díaz Martínez (2019). Menores en disputa. Custodia, visitas y patria potestad en la Comunidad Valenciana. Madrid: Tirant lo Blanch

Marcela Jabbaz Churba; Juan Antonio Rodríguez del Pino y Nina Navaja Pertegás (eds) (2019). Miradas de género: Una sociología sin barreras, cerraduras ni cerrojos. Barcelona: Icaria.

Marcela Jabbaz Churba (2019). Gender perceptions and conditioning in the life and career aspirations of young people. The case of Valencia. DG Justice, EU. http://freetochoose.eu/project/coming-out-spain-report/

Marcela Jabbaz Churba y Capitolina Díaz Martínez (2017). La implementación de políticas de igualdad de género en las administraciones públicas. Madrid: Tirant Lo Blanch.

Ana Marrades Puig is Professor of constitutional law. Between 1993 and 2010 she was an associate professor, combining her teaching and research activity with the professional practice of law, in the field of gender violence. She is currently president of the Feminist Network of Constitutional Law.

Her research activity has focused especially on issues of fundamental rights, and gender studies, being attached to the Institut Universitari d’Estudis de les Dones. Among her publications are the monograph “Lights and shadows of the right to motherhood” and she is co-author of “Gender violence in the population of immigrant women” and “Challenges for the Constitutional State of the 21st century: rights, ethics and care policies”. She has also participated in collective works such as “Women parliamentarians in the constituent legislature” and in several research projects among which it is worth highlighting the “Study on the impact of the Equality Law on electoral processes” and in the work resulting from the project “The political participation of women”. Her publications include "The new social rights: the right to care as the foundation of the constitutional pact" (2016), “Surrogacy within the framework of the Spanish Constitution: a question of rights” (2017), "Discrimination due to pregnancy and maternity" (2018), "Trafficking in persons for the purposes of sexual and reproductive exploitation. Proposals for legislation and measures against a dramatic reality" (2019), "The ethics of care, equality and diversity: values fora Constitution of the 21st century" (2019). He has recently published in Constitutional Theory and Reality: The right to care (2025).

He has carried out research stays at different universities in Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States (Università di Pisa, University of Virginia, University of Kent and University of London); and has collaborated as a teacher at the University of Pisa and participated as a speaker in seminars at the University of Bologna, the University of London and the University of Kent, where she is an associate researcher.

In the university teaching field, he has participated in several educational innovation projects, among them he has coordinated the University Network for teaching innovation with a gender perspective. She is also a professor of the Master's Degree in Gender and Equality Policies at the University of Valencia, as well as the subjects of "Gender Relations, Politics, Citizenship and Society". Her latest research focuses on new rights from a gender perspective for constitutional change and especially on the right to care from a gender perspective.

[Biography, english version]