A study by researchers in Spain which analysed 595 toy advertisements broadcast on television at Christmas 2009, 2010 and 2011 showed that they promoted values that associate beauty with girls and strength and power with boys.

A new study analyses the inequality between European men and women in their exposure to psychosocial risk factors at work. Scandinavian women experience the worst conditions, whilst Anglo-Saxon men experience the best.

A study from the Miguel Hernández University shows that young people between 14 and 18 years of age who engage in sexual relations under the effects of alcohol are more likely to have negative attitudes towards condom use.

The European Institute of Studies on Prevention (Irefrea) surveyed more than 6,000 people in various airports in Mediterranean countries during summer 2009 to find out the levels of harassment and sex against one’s will that had occurred. According to the experts, one in ten female English or German tourists has fallen victim to these practices while on holiday in southern Europe, as well as one in 15 males, as published in the journal ‘Archives of Sexual Behavior’.