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"The loss of female talent in Catalunya costs one billion a year" 24/01/2008
Aintzane Gastesi,
The Country
"The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce has been measured for the first time this wastage of female talent in a study that estimated the cost of female labor discrimination. The Chamber also announced the creation of an observatory on women managers.
A woman prepared, highly educated or middle-level or park leaving to devote her career to care for their children or attend family matters is a huge waste of talent. For her, of course, but also for the rest of society. The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce has been measured for the first time this wastage of female talent in a study that concluded that the marginalization of women trained labor costs one billion euros annually in Catalonia.
This figure is obtained by multiplying the difference between women and men with higher education inactive, 32,595 people in 2006, the average salary of a directive or a qualified professional, which amounted to 29,982 euros. The exact cost of the operation is 977 million euros, 0.5% of Catalan GDP in 2006. The waste of skilled human capital of these women throughout their lives amounted to 12.152 million euros, amounting to 6.2% of Catalan GDP.
The picture portrays the study, prepared by the Foundation Cirem with results of a survey of more than 4,000 enterprises, women are better educated than ever and still have a smaller presence in senior positions. In Catalonia account for 34% of these positions in the public sphere and private, while being 31% of the business. This inequality must be added the wage gap. According to the latest annual survey of wage structure (December 2006), in Catalonia for women in management positions are paid less than half the men in the same category.
According Miquel Valls, President of the Chamber of Commerce, "the female talent is necessary and essential if we develop a knowledge economy." In this situation, the Chamber has developed a series of proposals to remedy the inequalities that affect many women prepared to leave the labor market prematurely. On the one hand, measures of conciliation as schedules and more flexible child care. Furthermore, the Administration will help the SMEs to implement the measures contained in the Equality Act. Valls also announced that the Chamber shall continuously monitor the issue through the creation of the Observatory of Women Managers in Business. "
tenacious Reflections and data on the participation of women in the labor market and inequalities which we live.
"The tenacious women's careers. Have flooded the labor market and better jobs are now claiming "Peace
01/26/2008 Alvarez,
Five Days" More will be less, but occupy more management positions and seats on boards of directors. Something is changing. And for the better. This week, Telefónica has appointed an independent adviser to the current head of Merrill Lynch's private banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Eva Castillo. This is a small gesture, because in Spain the number of counselors in the highest organs of government enterprises is low at 4%, 3.64%, a ridiculous figure compared with 25% of counselors who are in Sweden. If anyone is comforting, in Italy the percentage is 2%.
However, there is another alarming fact: the expansion of Native women in the labor market will slow in the next 15 years. The explosion of experienced labor supply since 1977, which represented the contribution of three-fourths of the total increase in the native range, with a total of 4.4 million new women into the labor market comes to an end. The Manpower Employment Index indicates that between now and 2023, only incorporated into the labor market about 300,000 new native 16 to 64 years. "We expect a stagnation of the integration of native women in the labor market, and that's going to cause problems, as long as the activity rate grows. All this comes with the aging population, so immigration will be an objective need of the market work, "says Josep Oliver, Professor of Applied Economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and coordinator of that study.
As for the boards of directors, says the consultant Pilar Gómez Acebo, are not managed by a company, but which ensures that the company is well managed. What has been, and there are great changes in recent years. It's something that stands out Sarduska Romana, member and secretary general of the board of Uria Menendez: "I have seen dramatic and surprising changes in my career. And the tendency is to believe that progress is inevitable, and that's something I've seen in the treatment of women particularly in equal opportunities, but my optimism may be mitigated, "he says.
Sarduska participated this week in a session on the contribution of women to the councils and the benefits of balancing the presence of women, held at the Madrid headquarters of ESADE. In his opinion, still exists in this area a huge area of \u200b\u200bimprovement. 'The figures in boards in Europe are worse than in the U.S., where there is also greater pressure from the judiciary. " Counsel maintains that, as a member of the board of Uria Menendez, has ceased to be a counselor because there is a limitation on the number of its members, 'and we are encouraging the entry of younger counselors. " Sarduska Romana was the first member and advisor of the firm, 'but in 11 years we have bred a new generation and will soon have more members. "
One of the brake blocks access of women to the councils is precisely the lack of women in management positions, partly due to reconciliation problems with the executive. To get a council must pass through to a senior management position, and today, many professionals are on the road. In Uria Menendez, according Sarduska is anticipated. 'For some time, most arriving in the office were students of law, and proposed that we could not wasting that talent and let women choose other careers or can not balance your life. " 11 years ago, decided to create a flexible plan, "an exercise in common sense that women entering the labor market with excellent training, and is essential to continue a career. It was a measure of good business sense and corporate responsibility. " What is needed now is to pave the way for women to, equal, opt for a position of great responsibility. 30,000 euros
wage gap with men by managers in public administration and in companies with more than ten employees gained, on average, 61,624 annual gross euros in 2006 in Catalonia, reports Rosario Correro. The study by the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce (with data from the progress of the Wage Structure Survey published in December).
Women with the same professional category gained less than half, 30,012 euros. According to the report, the reason for the difference is that many women choose to leave the labor market or reduce their commitment for long periods of time, "making it more difficult to acquire specific human capital or the accumulation of years of experience in positions of responsibility '. The study includes a survey of 4,268 Catalan firms in that 68% recognized that the economic treatment of women is lower than men on the same level of responsibility. The percentage of companies that recognizes the discrimination is 81%. New capabilities
60% of women finished his studies compared with 40% of men. Moreover, the joint boards promote understanding of the complexities of the environment and better strategic planning, as well as providing a more participative leadership as Pilar Gómez Acebo. "
maybe female talent is wasted? Interesting article on the business performance of investing in female talent.
"Companies with more guidelines have better outcomes" 21/02/2008
Carmen Morán, El Pais
"According to a study of the 500 largest companies in return on equity the difference between companies with more women in higher positions compared to those who have less is 53%.
Companies with more women in leadership positions have better economic performance in general. In return on equity (ROE, in acronym) the difference between companies with more women in higher positions compared to those who have less is 53%. If analyze sales profits, the gap narrows to 42% and on return on invested capital that distinguishes the figure from each other rises to 66%. The study has made the American organization Catalyst on the 500 largest companies in the world.
These results can not be explained by the presence of women. Would then be sufficient to change the composition of all companies and economic results would be overwhelming. It's a matter of recovering the talent that is out when policies are excluded, their thinking, organizing, directing your model. Ie adding talent. This was explained yesterday in Madrid is responsible for Catalyst in Europe, Eleanor Tabi Haller-Jorden, who participated in a conference on quality of life and business competitiveness Alares organized by the Foundation. Tabi
added another ingredient to be added to the presence of women: a leader who is blind faith, he said, this is the right policy. "Talent is not associated with either sex and if there are problems in recruiting talent is lost in productivity," he said. "36% of people in employment is broken by the head going," he added.
"So, employers already have the economic data, therefore, must integrate women not as a matter of ethics or aesthetics, but to act intelligently" said.
Tabi said to change the exclusionary conduct of business towards women needed legislation, incentives and sanctions, but also needs a culture change. In the Nordic countries have shown that despite their joint success, stereotypes about the qualities that the men and women to run companies are wrong and have not changed. "We watch very closely what is happening in Spain with equality laws and in the Nordic countries", he said, but warned that not enough that the number of women is higher, is also required, quality of life the company. Copy delivered blind male models to work exclusively does not work, he continued. "I was in a U.S. company with many women and congratulated them for that. I did see that those who worked there had no personal life outside the office, or partner or children ... That is not the issue," added the charge in Europe of Catalyst, a nonprofit organization that works with over 350 multinational companies and plans to expand its business in southern Europe. Tabi
further explained that the threshold for the talents of women are properly conducted in three. Less than those on a board is not effective. "Entrepreneurs are pushing the so-called phenomenon the daughter, when they have a daughter who has had problems with his job thinking about what they are doing in their company. "
access more information on the website Catalyst .
