Abstract
Economic gender differences persist. Patriarchy theory assumes political power for women will bring economic equality. We evaluated Global Gender Gap for Spain and Portugal (2006-2022). We found women Ministers or in Parliament do not correlate with economic equality, women participation in workforce, same salary for men and women nor same income. Patriarchy theory does not seem useful to reduce gender economic inequality. We found no significant differences between PSOE and PP Governments nor positive correlation of economic equality with country GDP nor competitiveness. We recommend measuring power, not parity, fiscal redistribution policies and promoting providing-caring social role gender interchange.