The Municipal Archive of Arrecife hosted this Thursday a meeting of businesswomen organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Lanzarote, within the "Get Closer to Triumph Campaign" that is being developed throughout the island to reach out to companies.
In the round table "Women in the key of success", moderated by the Canarian journalist and actress Saida Santana, participated María Lasso, owner of the company Marrero Monzón, Dulce Rodríguez, communication businesswoman (Publigestión) and Duvi Rodríguez, head of the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Lanzarote and construction businesswoman (Lanzagrava).
The businesswomen sitting at the table raised issues of leadership, success or reconciliation of professional and family life. For them, success is linked "to personal satisfaction, to illusion and happiness, ahead of issues of power or economic".
14 percent of large Spanish companies, according to the Chamber of Commerce, do not have any women in their management. This figure clashes head-on with the figures of university and trained women prepared to lead companies or integrate management positions. However, innovative companies, such as Google, have 70 percent of women on their staff, according to Borja Berzosa, a speaker invited to this event to talk about the importance of SMEs being present on the Internet.
Reconciliation of family and professional life
Regarding reconciliation, women continue to assume self-imposed roles that lead to feelings of guilt, so that 87 percent of working women and mothers would like to have their work life and their family life more balanced. However, the conclusions point out that reconciliation should be for both sexes.
In this sense, María Lasso, director and owner of the company Marrero Monzón, which belongs to the metal sector, an area traditionally occupied by men, points out that women should stop pretending to be perfect, to be the best mother, the best wife and the best worker. Only then, "we can relax and start enjoying".
This businesswoman took over the management of the company out of obligation after a family incident and assures that her way of managing the company "has nothing to do" with the way her husband managed it, although she also recognizes that this greater "empathy" with which she faces leadership has to do above all "with character and not with being a woman". María Lasso assures that we all have "a background of sensitivity, even the toughest men". "When you scratch a little, you discover that sensitivity is underneath".
