This article examines how being motivated by disease prevention (“safety”)
or pleasure promotion (“pleasure”) shapes the way people construe sexual
health and pursue their sexual goals.
What are the decisive factors in a country's research and innovation
systems? What about the links between science and business? We present the
new Dossier of the Social Observatory of the "la Caixa" Foundation.
Portugal, together with Denmark, is an exception within the framework of
the EU-27 and has percentages of women scientists and engineers that
slightly exceed the European average.
While the participation of female PhD holders in Portugal is situated above
the EU‑27 average in all fields of knowledge considered, in Spain the
participation of female PhD holders is situated below the European average
in the fields of art, humanities and social sciences.
Some 29% of Spaniards have a social position above that of their parents,
and over 40% believe they have risen above their grandparents on the social
ladder.