Efe Santander
Santander
Updated Tuesday, January 30, 2024-13:12
The vice president and director of Banco Santander in Spain,
Isabel Tocino
, considers the barriers to the advancement of women to have been "overcome", who she believes are "overly victimized" today.
"We are reaching true equality of opportunity because the public and private sectors need talent, and it is a luxury that we cannot afford to" do without "more than 50 percent of the population, which is female talent; therefore, at choose the best, the best come," defended Tocino, who was Minister of the Environment
in the Government of José María Aznar between 1996 and 2000.
Tocino has assured, in an economic forum in Santander, that she has experienced "many legal barriers" for being a woman, but she believes that, with the modification of the Civil Code in 1975,
those limitations ended
.
"The limitations have been overcome and, therefore, what we women have left over at this moment is victimhood," she maintained, and called for
"resetting" that message and "bringing out all the capital"
that each woman carries inside. . "Nowadays you can denounce, protest and say where there is discrimination, as it did not happen before," she added.
Tocino expressed this after being asked about the presence of women at the head of the regional Executive, the regional Parliament, the Government Delegation and the City Council of the capital, Santander, and about the possibility of a woman presiding over the country.
"Why isn't there going to be a female president of the Government?"
, she asked.
A supporter of
"feminism 4.0"
, understood as "one hundred percent shared responsibilities", and humanist leadership, she has asked women to be themselves and not compare themselves to anyone. "Not with your sister-in-law or with the neighbor. Improve yourself every day. Women sometimes lack self-esteem," she added.
During his presentation, titled "Resilience strategy to continue growing in a new world", he called on the attending businessmen to have a
"much more open than ever
" mentality, to not be afraid and to "invest to grow."