The purpose of this article is to analyse the experiences of probation officers who supervise women in the community in Catalonia. To this end, qualitative research involving 15 semi-structured interviews with probation officers in Barcelona and Girona was carried out. The results show that professionals agree that there are important gender differences in relation to: (a) personal and penal characteristics and (b) supervision style. The perceptions of practitioners and existing empirical data are broadly consistent. Women who serve community sentences have a wide range of problems, needs and responsibilities compared to men, which is often reflected in the fact that women's attendance is much more irregular, an issue that presents multiple challenges for practitioners. Probation officers already carry out different gender-responsive practises, however, they face different challenges in a gender-insensitive probation system. Furthermore, given the great heterogeneity of the female service users compared to the men, service provision for women in the community also needs to be intersectionally-responsive. Based on these disparities, the elements of probation that the professionals believe work better with women and those that could be improved are discussed.

本文的目的是分析在加泰罗尼亚监督社区妇女的缓刑官员的经历。为此，对巴塞罗那和赫罗纳的缓刑官员进行了 15 次半结构化访谈的定性研究。结果表明，专业人士同意在以下方面存在重要的性别差异：（a）个人和刑事特征以及（b）监督方式。从业者的看法和现有的经验数据大体一致。与男性相比，服刑的女性面临着广泛的问题、需求和责任，这往往体现在女性出勤率更加不规律上，这一问题对从业者提出了多重挑战。缓刑官员已经开展了不同的性别敏感实践，然而，他们在不区分性别的缓刑制度中面临不同的挑战。此外，鉴于女性服务使用者与男性相比存在很大差异，社区中为女性提供的服务也需要交叉响应。基于这些差异，讨论了专业人士认为与女性更好地合作的缓刑要素以及可以改进的要素。