The Government of Spain will take "by urgent means" its Labor Equality Law so that there are female quotas on the boards of directors

The Government is willing to take its proposal for Labor Equality Law, registered in February at the Congress when the PSOE was in opposition, to compel companies to "share and distribute the power of decision with women" of those companies.

This was stated on Tuesday by the Vice President of the Government and Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Equality, Carmen Calvo, during the Forbes Summit Women, which she inaugurated in Madrid.

According to Calvo, in Spain there is a law of this type that "invites but does not oblige" companies to demand the presence of women in places of power and leadership. In addition, he recalled that this Monday the State of California (United States) made the decision to require by law the presence of women in management positions, "following in the wake of some European countries."

In the case of Spain, Calvo has indicated that, once this law is approved, it is intended to give a transitional period to companies to adapt to this obligation.

In general, this proposed Law - which, according to Calvo, will soon begin to be processed - is aimed at "tackling globally all the problems of women's employment discrimination", such as access to work, compatibility of motherhood and the employment or co-responsibility of personal and work life, as well as to solve the "problem" of the wage gap.

Subject "facts"

"This can not be a matter of debate, it has to be about facts and, therefore, about normal solutions in a democratic society where working women need fair answers to be efficient," he said.

The vice-president of the Government justifies this proposal of law in which "self-regulation works regularly" in the case of "giving up spaces of power of influence and of protagonism for the good", for which it emphasizes the importance of transforming the aspirations of society " in norm of forced fulfillment ".

In that sense, Calvo considers important the feminine leadership in the business scope, since the women like this "transform images that help a lot to all and that educate to all, particularly to the men who in the present century continue thinking, for reasons of comfort , that things can continue like this, that there is nothing to do or decisions to make ", when these people think that this question" will be solved by the natural development of events ".