The call driven by GOB to demand fair school transport fares has already garnered the support of more than a hundred educational centers in Mallorca, Menorca, and Eivissa, and more than a dozen associations of principals, families, and unions, in a context marked by tourist pressure, which makes travel more expensive to the point of making it unaffordable for many centers and pushes some companies to stop offering this service as it is considered less profitable. The result is that there are students who never leave their municipality, because they depend on the school to do so and to see the world. Adhesions have been incorporated in recent days and demonstrate the growing scope of a problem that has been affecting the entire educational community for years.

Men, generally speaking, care very little about feminism. Some are outright opposed, saying that women are exaggerating, or that the grievances and inequalities they claim are no longer justified in an egalitarian and democratic society, or that it's all just a charade to look good or to collect subsidies by playing the victim. Others try to understand it beyond International Women's Day and attempt to bring some sense to a set of demands that, in my opinion, make perfect sense, especially when we see the statistics on domestic and sexual violence, or the glaring economic inequalities. However, it's difficult for a man to feel directly involved in these demands. It's as if the women around us were a foreign country with its own wars, miseries, and injustices, which we can understand, but we're not expected to do more than sympathize from afar and not show ourselves to be too supportive—or complicit—with the oppressors. Even among younger generations, this issue seems to have a bad reputation, as if it were a settled debate, or as if women don't need any help or support, or as if feminism itself creates the problem by highlighting a set of inequalities that should already be invisible. There are also some women who feel more comfortable thinking of the battle as already won, or as unnecessary or awkwardly framed. Or who find the traditionally domestic role of women liberating and wonderful, a promised land lost. However, even if we were to approach the solution from a left-wing perspective, it's often unclear what kind of policies could be implemented.

Data from 2025 confirms that the labor market in the Balearic Islands continues to penalize women simply for being women. According to the 'Women's Report 2026' by the CCOO union in the Balearic Islands, only 31.9% of permanent, full-time, and stable contracts were held by women, while men accounted for 68.6%. This situation shows that, despite the economic and social progress of recent years, true equality is still a long way off. This data does not include seasonal contracts. This inequality is also reflected in temporary employment. Of all working women, almost 24% work part-time, nearly double the rate for men (12.5%). The combination of temporary contracts and part-time work directly results in lower wages, difficulties in career advancement, and worse working conditions. Conversely, men hold the majority of permanent, full-time contracts, reinforcing a gap that persists throughout their working lives.

The first quarter of the 21st century has left a profound mark on the Balearic education system. Accelerated demographic changes, growing inequalities, linguistic debates, new educational opportunities, and a university that has evolved in size and scientific ambition have shaped a very different scenario from that of the beginning of the millennium. This report looks back to understand the present and project into the future.

Those under 18 are the segment most at risk of poverty and social exclusion in the Balearic Islands, with 23% affected in 2024, according to the EAPN's 2025 State of Poverty Report. Despite this high figure, it represents a 10-point drop compared to 2023. On a global scale, the at-risk-of-poverty and social exclusion (AROPE) rate has reached its lowest levels in recent years, standing at 16.2%, and for the first time since 2020 below the target set for this year, 6.6. Nearly 200,000 people are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Extreme material deprivation has also decreased by two points and affects those unable to cope with unforeseen events (30%) and those unable to make ends meet (40%), among other situations. All this, at a time when the Balearic Islands have had practically full employment figures for years. Now, with precarious jobs and low wages.

The Great Wealth Transfer predicted by economists and the international trade press is underway. Over the next two decades, it is expected that baby boomers –those born between 1945 and 1964, approximately– will pass on a significant portion of their wealth, especially real estate, to their heirs. The first consequence is that this wealth will pass to two generations that accumulate less wealth, according to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE): Generation X (1965-1980) and the millennials (1981-1996). But this transfer of wealth, in a society with lower incomes and enormous difficulties in accessing housing, will also increase social inequality between those who inherit and those who do not, many of whom are immigrants.