The president of ATREVIA, Núria Vilanova, and Professor Núria Chinchilla, head of the Carmina Roca Department and Rafael Pich-Aguilera of Women and Leadership, presented on the campus of IESE in Barcelona the study Women on the boards of listed companies prepared by ATREVIA and IESE.
The report includes the I X-ray of the continuous market in full and the VI Report of Women in the IBEX and covers 133 companies. Some of the main data that the report reveals it’s the increase in presence of women in listed companies of the continuous market by 15% during the year 2017, adding a total of 258 female directors, 19.15% of the total 1,347 existing members of the Boards of Directors.
Although significant, this increase still leaves women far from positions with executive functions and places the whole continuum very far from complying with the recommendation included in the Code of Good Governance of the CNMV, of having a least 30% of executive be females by 2020.
The study also reveals that there are 15 companies in the continuous market without any female executives (all of the IBEX companies have at least one) and another 47 that have only one woman in their Board. This means that in 2017, 46.6% of the companies in the continuous market had less than two women in their top decision-making bodies.
In the words of Núria Vilanova, studies like this help us to generate a real transformation. “What is not measured, does not change, it is essential to advance in aspects such as parity, diversity and responsibility proposed by the Unified Code of Good Government, an issue that is demanded by society, one that is every day increasingly more diverse and committed”