Duran will address poverty and wealth, two terms that are relative. Not all wealth is transformed to money nor all necessities are covered through monitored services. Health is a formidable source of invisible resources that are not incorporated in the micro or macro-economic analysis. It is also a cost for the domestic work and the people who undertake it, mostly women. The entrance to the seminar is free, but requires previous enrolment here. 

If we take into account the data of the Time Use Survey carried out by INE in 2010-2011, the time that is devoted to domestic activities and family equals 28 million full-time jobs. In an aging society, abounding chronic ill people, health is increasingly being demanded. Therefore, we should anticipate how many people will need cures and how many of them won’t be able to pay them at the market price. Unpaid work that is not distributed by a free agreement is the result of historical coercive forces that have been assigned to women. We should give it a new social recognition and integrate it in a new explicit social pact.

María Ángeles Durán is the founder and the first director of the Institute of Women Studies of the Autonomous University of Madrid. She promoted the creation of the chair UNESCO for equality policies. In fact, she is the honorary president of such chair. She often collaborates with academic and researching entities, as well as international organisms (World Health Organization, Women ONU, Economic Commission for Latin America...). She has received the National Research Award Pascual Madoz in Social Sciences, Legal and Economic Sciences. She is an honoured doctor by the universities of Valencia, Autonomous of Madrid and Granada.

This activity is registered in the European School of Knowledge Lluís Vives. This project is promoted by the Office of the Vice-principal for Culture and it is managed by the General Foundation of the Universitat de València. The foundation encourages reflection and both critical and participative debate on current issues. In addition, it counts with the participation of other civil and administrative entities: Valencian Presidency, Valencia City Council, the Department of Transparency of the Valencian government, the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the Valencian government, the Valencian Academy of the Language, the Institute Alfons el Magnànim, the European School of Humanities and Caixa Popular.