More women on boards, but with the same little power

In the recent presentation of the Actualidad Económica award to

as the best businessman of the year,

from an important Ibex company raised her head to see the twelve tables in the room where the guests were seated.

She looked and turned to the journalist next to her:

They keep treating us like vases."

The journalist did not know what to answer.

Nobody doubts that

in the participation of women in the governing bodies of companies in recent years.

That this advance has fine print and

, it is also obvious.

A first data, taken from the X report of Women in the Ibex, prepared by the Institute of Higher Business Studies

) and the consulting firm

, says that in 2021 the female representation in the boards of directors of the companies of the main index Spanish was 33.94%, the highest proportion in history.

But at the same time, the

(or management) committees of these councils, the

" of the companies as the report calls them, barely accounts for

To understand us.

If out of every hundred directors, 34 are women;

Of every one hundred directors-members of executive committees, only 18 are -almost half-.

And the distance is much greater if we go to the presidencies of the groups -

, Ana Botín at Banco Santander and Beatriz Corredor at Red Eléctrica-, and to the

María Dolores Dancausa appears, in Bankinter.

Namely,

.

This proportion has not changed in the last two years.

will be added to this list

, who is about to assume the presidency of Inditex.

But unlike her predecessor, Pablo Isla, who was executive president, the company has made it expressly clear that

Óscar García Maceiras .

The corporate governance criteria establish three

company boards of directors.

The

, because they have a position in the management bodies;

the

who have part of the capital or represent whoever has it, and the

who neither one nor the other and are normally proposed by the presidents (so the issue of independence would have to be explained).

There are cases of

of companies that have been

, in some legal case without it being known that the

have raised their hands to ask for explanations.

The CNMV considers

in positions of greater responsibility, especially in senior management positions and as executive directors," explains the body chaired by Rodrigo Buenaventura.

In fact, the

carried out in June 2020 set

the target for female participation on boards at

In 2021, the 35 largest listed companies have reached 34. But make no mistake.

in the rest of listed companies that proportion only reaches 25.8%: there are fifteen points left to approach the objective.

And they are entities that are obliged, because they are listed, to 'obey' the CNMV.

What is striking is one of the

for this difference between the presence of non-executive and executive directors: "

."

In other words, it gives the impression that this female incorporation into the company's senior management is imposed, not that it is necessary for the company's development.

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