In recent months, there has been a “slightly more triumphalist discourse, as if equality was something that was almost achieved,” said Marieta Jiménez, president of ClosinGap, last week, who encouraged analyzing the data as a way to “challenge that narrative.” ”.
What various studies published in recent days, on the occasion of 8M, show, is that inequality between men and women is still far from over in Spain.
39
These are the years it will take to achieve gender parity in Spain, according to the
IV ClosinGap Index
, which indicates that equality between men and women stands at 64.9%, 0.2 points better than the year past.
This difference has an impact on the economy, since, according to the report, closing the gender gap would mean “213,013 million euros, which would be equivalent to a 15.8% increase in GDP.”
34.5%
It is the percentage of women who occupy a seat on the boards of directors of the 115 listed Spanish companies, according to the
XII Report on Women on the boards of the Ibex 35 and VII Radiography of the continuous market
, prepared by the consulting firm Atrevia and the business school IESE Business School.
The percentage rises to 39.2%, two points more than last year, if only the Ibex 35 companies are taken into account. When analyzing only the firms in the continuous market, the percentage drops to 31.30%, two points above 2022.
40%
Of the management positions in Spanish companies in the
middle-market
segment [understood in this case as companies with between 50 and 500 employees and with a turnover from one million euros to up to 90 million] are occupied by women, according to the study
Women in Business 2024
, prepared by Grant Thornton.
The consulting firm, which has prepared the report based on interviews and surveys carried out with senior executives from 31 markets around the world, states that “the Spanish proportion is five points above the European average (35%) and seven more than that registered at a global level (33%).”
39%
Women feel that they are being compensated fairly financially for their work.
This is stated in the
Inclusion Matters
report , carried out by PwC based on a global survey.
The significant difference also appears between the predisposition of men and women to ask for promotions, nine points less in the case of women, as well as when it comes to demanding a salary increase (eight points lower).
The report concludes that professionals who feel higher levels of inclusion in their work environment are 1.7 times more likely to actively seek opportunities to learn and develop new skills.
70%
Of the women over 50 who are unemployed, they have at some point given up, or put on hold, their professional career to care for their family, according to the
11th Employment for All Report from the Adecco Foundation
.
5.5%
This is the percentage of women who have a STEM job – the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – compared to 13% of men.
This is reflected in the
Women in STEM study.
From basic education to careers
, published by the Esade Center for Economic Policies, which concludes that the low representation of women implies less access for women to what, in general, are better working conditions.
This work explains that the gender gap begins at school, and that once high school is reached, the presence of girls in scientific-technical branches is “consistently lower,” despite the fact that the percentage that successfully completes their studies is higher. to the boys.
At the university, the rates of women enrolled in STEM university degrees do not reach 50% in almost any case, and in Telecommunications (23%), or Computer Science (13%) they are especially low.
70%
Women believe that there are gender biases when choosing university studies, although only 27% consider they have felt influenced by them, according to a study by the Knowledge and Development Foundation.
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