The presence of women in management positions in Spain has advanced much faster than in the rest of the European continent and reaches 40% of senior business positions.
By autonomous communities, the Canary Islands reaches 42%, only surpassed by the Valencian Community, where 44% of senior positions are held by women. Next are located Galicia, with 41%, Madrid with 40% and Navarra (39%).
This is revealed by the latest Women in Business report, from the Grant Thornton consultancy, which celebrates 20 years. In these last two decades, the percentage of women in command in Spain has increased 26 points from the 14% that marked the first report in the series in 2004.
Spain exceeds the European average by five percentage points and has gone from 38 to 40% in the last year, according to data from the legal and financial services consultancy.
Grant Thornton calculates that parity will not arrive until 2053. In the companies of the Ibex 35 in particular, women lead in 34.5% of the cases.
The greatest advance in equality in the last decade has occurred in the area of Human Resources, where women lead 46%.
The second greatest achievement, although still limited, highlighted by the report, is that the number of women who chair companies. In 2012 there were none, today they are 9%.
