Who works as a wife and family, in Spain is not equal to a “Raven mother”. The women in the profession easier. However, you need to continue to fight against inequality.
Kerstin Krause is familiar with both worlds, the German and the Spanish. The fashion designer was able to arrange in Spain your professional life with the family. When her two sons were small, benefited the now 48-year-old, the Spanish school supplies from 9 to 17 o’clock, the children, and that the state’s Preschool is designed for children from the age of three.
These circumstances, as well as dedicated grandparents, has led, in their opinion, to the fact that in Spain more women in leadership positions than in the EU average, and also in Germany. And, although there are no children or parents money in Spain. Around 30 per cent of the responsible positions in Spanish companies are female occupied. The EU is, on average, only 28 per cent, and is still lower than the global rate of 29 percent, according to a study by the consulting firm Grant Thornton.
In Spain, women more
In Spain, relatively more women, the reasons a company, as in other European countries. According to the “Global Entrepreneurship Monitor” come on ten male founders, nine female. Krause believes that it was not so much a question of money, but rather the setting. She comes from the former GDR, where women have almost always worked.
Kerstin Krause (center) with her Models at a Show. The fashion designer has established herself in a male domain
Krause has witnessed the fall of the Berlin wall as a 20-year-old and had to Finance the fashion school in Düsseldorf itself. Then she went to New York, where she struggled in a male-dominated world. “I wanted everything – not only a career and not just a family. Driven my passion has been with me,” she says.
Spanish Raven mothers, there is not
Also Catherine Miller wanted everything, and it’s found in her adopted home of Spain. “In Germany, I could never make a career with three children,” she says. The advocate, founded in Madrid in their own business and woman defended, in the meantime, rights at the international level, also in the order of the Spanish government.
Catherine Miller, an entrepreneur from Madrid
What does she like about Spain: “There is not the word Raven mother”. The Spanish love children, but don’t have to talk all the time about education. The care facilities are doing their Job and many career women, life, family and Job are possible. “Of course, my Spanish husband agrees not to hold me back, otherwise it would be,” says Miller. He works from home.
In Spain, the role of women has been strengthened in the policy
Such a distribution of roles would not be accepted in Germany as in Spain, the various women of my at the Meeting of the club of European entrepreneurs in Madrid. Although it seems to run in Spain so better than in other countries, also here on 8. March 2018 millions of women from all political directions of their work at home and in the profession, and demonstrate for women’s rights, for equality in the profession and against domestic violence, which is still a big issue.
On 8. March 2018, the International women’s day, laid down millions of women in Spain work
Already during his election campaign, Pedro Sánchez was promoted to women’s rights and gender equality strengths. With Success. After he was a year ago, the Prime Minister, he summoned more women than men in its Cabinet.
Ana Patricia Botin: the most important Banker in the world
But not the light and thin voice of the government Vice-Carmen Calvo, but the depth, and certain of Ana Patricia Botín, in the field of women’s model in the meantime, the tone in Spain. For the past five years, she is the top person in charge of the Europe’s largest Bank, Banco Santander.
Your way seemed to be predetermined. A great-grandfather was one of the founding members of the Bank, her grandfather and later her father sat on the Executive chair. And also, Ana Patricia Botín worked since 1989 in various management functions of Banco Santander, which was directed by her father since 1986. When he fired them in 1999, wasteland for a world, together. “It was hard for me,” says the 58-year-old looking back. Long she could not talk about it, wanted to distance themselves from the Father.
She founded her own investment company and was the mother of three children by biting. Nevertheless, she says: “at home I had it easier than many others, because my husband and I have split up the work evenly. I don’t know that this is still normal. Many women give their all at work and then have to bring home is also 100 percent”.
Fight with a male competitor
Three years after the scandal with her father made it to the Boss of Santander subsidiary Banesto in Spain. In 2011, she joined as Chairman of the Board for Santander UK. After her Come some of the man left the Bank. “In the first few months there, I had to accept safe 70 redundancies,” she recalls. “Men like to Bang doors and sometimes have a big Ego,” says Botín life with a view to your profession. “They don’t trust you to make decisions that can”. Today, the Bank is using her as a front woman as strong as never before.”
Ana Botin (R), since 2014, President of Banco Santander, during the Luxury Summit in Madrid
Botín, according to Forbes in the ranking of the most influential woman in the world in the year 2018 on number eight. In an Interview with Spanish radio station Cadena Ser, said recently: “10 years Ago I would not have referred to myself as a feminist, in the meantime, I’m doing this”.
Spaniards make the inner pressure
It was that on 8. March of this year, once again, millions of Spanish women on the street went. Head of the government, Sánchez has brought due to the pressure in March, a gender equality law on the way to repeal, especially the different salaries between women and men in the same positions.
Also, in this point Spain is better than Germany or Finland. Nevertheless, anyone who has experienced how the chartered accountant Rosa Sánchez of the entrepreneurs Pozuelo Association, this injustice itself, know how she feels: “I have earned in my first Job ten years ago, even less than my male colleagues. At the time, I like that, today I would not accept that,” says the Spaniard.