The president of Inditex, Pablo Isla, stressed on Tuesday that almost 80% of the 7,500 managers in the group are women.
75% of the group's workforce is female and among the managerial positions is included the store manager, mainly occupied by women, said the president of the textile giant owner of Zara in a conference on women and leadership organized by the consultant on 5050gl equality
"The figure of store manager is very important, especially if we talk about Zara . It is as if they were the general managers of a company with a workforce of 100 workers and a turnover of between 30 and 40 million euros," he explained.
In many countries, women are replacing women instead of men, "not because they are women, but because they are competent," he said.
Isla has said that he currently runs the group in China, the one with the greatest growth potential, a Spanish woman, very young and that she started working for the group in a store in Fuengirola (Málaga).
Several women occupy the position of country director in Japan, Canada, South Africa, Australia or the Czech Republic, "among many other cases," said Isla, who added that this transition has occurred "naturally."
"Any hypothetical glass ceiling that arises in the company we will be breaking. This makes us a stronger company in every way," he said.
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