Women are Heads of State or Government in only 22 countries around the world, and only 7.4% of the companies included in the Fortune 500 list are run by women. In Spain, only two Ibex 35 companies (Red Eléctrica Group is one of them) are chaired by women and only Red Eléctrica has a board of directors with an equal number of female and male directors, with an average of 31.2%, far from the 40% recommended by the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) (National Securities Market Commission) for 2022. 

“The world has made unprecedented progress, but no country has achieved full equality, although we are well aware that Nordic countries are the most advanced. We have landed on the moon, the internet and telecommunications have revolutionized the world, we have even photographed a black hole... Nonetheless, there are still legal restrictions preventing 2.7 billion women from having the same job opportunities as men. Only 25% of the world’s members of parliament are women and one in three women continues to suffer gender-based violence worldwide…It is clear that, indeed, there is much to be done”, declares our Chairwoman, Beatriz Corredor Sierra.

Therefore, once again this year we highlight the crucial contribution that women make to Red Eléctrica Group and we will continue working to increase female representation in our workforce and for the energy and telecommunications industries, traditionally male, to be equal. 

III Women's Week in RED

Following the thread of the motto chosen by the United Nations this year, we celebrate the III Women's Week in RED focused on the pandemic and the challenges posed to gender equality.

Thus, among the activities we have organized, we celebrated the Co-responsibility in Pandemic Times presentation by the psychologist, lecturer and author of numerous books on emotional well-being, Maria Jesús Álava. This conference addresses how Covid threatens to decapitalize female talent in organizations and gives evidence of women’s despair when analysing the development of their professional careers in this complex and uncertain environment. 

Likewise, we focused on women in rural areas, in a discussion with Elena Sainz, an entrepreneur who has participated in Holapueblo, a Red Eléctrica Group, AlmaNatura and Correos platform to fight against rural depopulation. Elena has left the city to settle in a town in Cuenca, Tragacete, and has started up her entrepreneurial project PlanB Residuo Cero, an online store of zero waste products.

Also, we have prepared the presentation, Co-creating a New Reality through Co-responsibility. Ritxar Bacete and Mercè Brey, transformation, diversity and leadership specialists, explain in the presentation how the pandemic has focused on the need for real co-responsibility, in other words, an equitable distribution of roles between men and women.