Matilde Fernández

Matilde Fernández
Minister of Social Affairs
In office
1988–1993
Prime MinisterFelipe González
Succeeded byCristina Alberdi
Personal details
Born
Matilde Fernández Sanz

(1950-01-24) 24 January 1950 (age 74)
Madrid, Spain
Political partySpanish Socialist Workers' Party
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid

Matilde Fernández (born 24 January 1950) is a Spanish social feminist and politician who served as minister of social affairs of Spain from 1988 to 1993.

Early life and education

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Fernández was born on 24 January 1950 in Madrid.[1][2] She graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid, receiving a degree in psychology.[3]

Career

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Following her graduation Fernández worked as an industrial psychologist in different companies.[3] Later she became a member and the leader of the labor union movement.[4][5] She began to serve as the general secretary of the Federation of Chemical Industries of the Unión General de Trabajadores in 1977.[3] Between 1982 and 1988 she was the general secretary of the Chemical and Energy Industries.[3] She joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) being part of the reformist group within it.[6] In 1984, she became a member of the PSOE's federal executive committee and was appointed head of the secretariat for women’s participation.[5]

Fernández was appointed minister of social affairs to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Felipe Gonzales in 1988.[7][8] Fernández became the first minister of social affairs since the ministry was established by her appointment.[9][10] She was backed by the PSOE group led by Alfonso Guerra.[11] She was replaced by Cristina Alberdi in the post in 1993.[4] In the Spanish Congress, she represented Cantabria from 1989 to 2000. From 1999 to 2003 Fernández was a councilor for the Madrid City Council.[3]

In 2000, Fernández ran for the PSOE presidency, but lost election to José Luis Zapatero.[12][13] Her candidacy was backed by the faction called guerristas.[14] She was a regional deputy at the Assembly of Madrid from 2003 to May 2015.[3]

Fernández became a board member of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Spain in 2007.[3] She was elected as a senator in 2008 and served in the IXth Legislature until 2011.[15] As of 2018 Fernández was serving as the president of the UNHCR in Spain.[16] Then she was made one of its honorary members.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Matilde Fernández". IMDb. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Matilde Fernández "Hay que ver errores y nuevas propuestas"". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. 23 January 2012. ProQuest 917101007. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Matilde Fernández Sanz. Socia de honor". UNHCR (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  4. ^ a b Manuel Castells (2011). The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-4443-5629-8.
  5. ^ a b Mona Lena Krook; Sarah Childs (2010). Women, Gender, and Politics: A Reader. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195368819.
  6. ^ José Luis Martí; Philip Pettit (2010). A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain. Princeton, NJ; Oxford: Princeton University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4008-3505-8. JSTOR j.ctt7sbkt.
  7. ^ Alan Riding (10 July 1994). "Spaniards grow disenchanted with a once-charismatic leader". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  8. ^ Harry Debelius (9 July 1988). "Reshuffle by González strengthens hand of Socialist party centre". The Times. No. 63129. London. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  9. ^ Celia Valiente (1995). "Rejecting the past: central government and family policy in post-authoritarian Spain (1975-94)". Cross National Research Papers. 4 (3): 80–96. hdl:10016/4362.
  10. ^ Celia Valiente (June 1996). "The rejection of authoritarian policy legacies: family policy in Spain (1975–1995)". South European Society and Politics. 1 (1): 95–114. doi:10.1080/13608749608454718. hdl:10016/4436.
  11. ^ José Luis Marti; Philip Pettit (2010). A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691154473. JSTOR j.ctt7sbkt.
  12. ^ Charles Powell (December 2009). "A second transition, or more of the same? Spanish Foreign Policy under Zapatero". South European Society and Politics. 14 (4): 519–536. doi:10.1080/13608740903503886. S2CID 153664809.
  13. ^ Mónica Méndez Lago (2006). "Turning the Page: Crisis and Transformation of the Spanish Socialist Party". South European Society and Politics. 11 (3–4): 422. doi:10.1080/13608740600856447. S2CID 154946660.
  14. ^ Sebastain Balfour (2005). The Politics of Contemporary Spain. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415356787.
  15. ^ "IX Legislatura". senado.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 June 2023.
  16. ^ ""España vive con miedo a la inmigración"". El Mundo (in Spanish). 31 May 2018. ProQuest 2046965084. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
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