“…Regarding the first sociodemographic variable, gender, the proportion of women was observably higher than that of men (76.8% women versus 23.2% men), which is concordant with the typical gender ratio in the profession (Bañez Tello, 2005;Berasaluce Correa, 2009;Morales Villena, 2010;Roldán-García, Leyra-Fatou, & Contreras-Martínez, 2012;Green, 2015). This ratio indicates evolution in comparison with earlier studies, such as Palacios Gómez (2007), who found that women comprised more than 82% of social workers in 2000 and 80% in 2006.…”