Advancing Gender Equality: Principles and Business Measures

Equality Law Objectives

• Ensuring comprehensive equality treatment across all public policies: employment, social, educational, cultural, and more.
• Establishing balanced participation of men and women in electoral lists, public administrations, and boards.
• Improving training, employment, and permanence in the labor market for women.
• Eradicating any harm or discrimination resulting from sex.
• Eliminating gender wage differentials.
• Adopting positive measures to protect vulnerable women.
• Promoting the reconciliation of work and family life.
• Implementing gender-neutral language in the administrative field.

Promoting Equal Opportunities

• Employment policies aim to increase the participation of women in the labor market.
• In the agricultural sector, a "shared ownership" figure is created, aimed at women married to male landowners who exploit the land.
• In the sale or purchase of any product or service, discriminatory conditions that penalize based on pregnancy or sex are prohibited.

Business-Related Equality Measures

• All companies with more than 250 employees must design and implement an equality plan. Companies below this limit may also be required to do so if stipulated by a collective agreement.
• Businesses must prevent working conditions that promote sexual harassment and establish clear complaint procedures.
• Companies excelling in their equality policies may receive a distinctive mark from authorities, which can be used for advertising.
• When companies apply for public subsidies, governments can consider their equality actions, such as workplace measures and corporate social responsibility in equality.
• Larger companies should strive for 50% representation of men and women on their Board of Directors.
• The law defines an equality plan as a set of measures implemented after a situation diagnosis, aiming to achieve equal treatment between men and women and eliminate gender discrimination.

Key Aspects of Equality Law

Egalitarian Organizational Management

Company management must promote an organizational culture that fosters equality between men and women, involving the entire organization in its momentum and consolidation.

Women in Leadership Roles

This aspect ensures genuine equal opportunity in access to all workplaces. It promotes the inclusion of the underrepresented sex in specific roles.

Equal Compensation Practices

The company guarantees that all staff receive equal remuneration without any direct or indirect discrimination based on sex.