Argentina Association of Women Entrepreneurs / ASEM, represented by its president, Beatriz Segni, as International Partner Summit was taking place in Barcelona sends information of the same on the second day of the event. The international meeting brings together 600 business and political leaders.

ISABEL RAMOS RIOJA
In conformity with the current model of winning. They are women who occupy high
positions in politics and business. Almost six hundred women in 76 countries, leaders of political parties and NGOs, senior government officials, business women and entrepreneurs gather for three days in Barcelona at the XII Summit of Women.

The aim is twofold: To promote international business and “explore the European market”, end it with the who have moved to Barcelona participants especially the United States.

This edition, which was opened yesterday and closes tomorrow, it is going to have more participation of those held to date, said Irene Natividad, an entrepreneur and chairman of the event, at a press conference.

This summit called Davos for women “in reference to the World Economic Forum, which controls the global economy-will focus on the possibilities offered by new technologies open new trade routes.

“There are entrepreneurs who want to know how to do business online, we want to make a network of women entrepreneurs in the Internet,” said Natividad, who is chairman of Globewomen.com first resource center on-line “for women in the United States. Natividad, Philippine birth and U.S. citizenship, participation, inter alia, a bipartisan organization that fights for the designation of a greater number of women to public office.

The majority of women entrepreneurs are in charge of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), not inconsiderable, as Natividad, as are those that generate more employment. Moreover, entrepreneurs are less discriminatory in hiring other women, he added. Women head 40% of U.S. SMEs and 30% of the European Union.

Business ridden by women, although with less importance, are more sustainable because men tend to take more risks. That means they can grow more easily but also sinking, said the chairman of the summit. Women in developing countries, meanwhile, boast more imagination to get ahead.

To Astrid Fischel, Minister of Education of Costa Rica and vice president of this country in the last legislature, the presence of women in the company reveals that employees are more likely to rise. In large companies, where there are fewer women in management, they encourage the negotiation because they’re used to it.

There are still meetings of women because they still have no regular access to any area of society, including economic entities, said yesterday Margarida Alvarez, president of the Institut Català de la Dona.

Adela Subirana, one of three women among 69 men from the executive committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, corroborated the report that private enterprise does not do justice to the preparation of women.

“With the curriculum on the table do not choose the person best prepared if it is woman,” he said. Subirana recalled that Labour Development, major employers, has no women in decision-making levels. The executive committee Pymec-Sefes, the management of small and medium enterprises, a woman with 14 men.

Women who have reached the highest in the major Spanish companies, without exception, they have for being born in the bosom of the family that owns: Casademont Codorniu or Banco Santander, said Subirana.

Feminist Coordinator expressed his rejection to the spirit of the summit in a statement titled “Do not want to be like women of power” in the lobby critics that women do not question the inequalities generated by the market economy and limited to be strong in an economic system that, by definition, excludes and harms women. ”

Note provided courtesy of ASEM

Barcelona

An idea expressed in different words, has permeated the conversations of the 600 business and political leaders gathered in Barcelona these days at the XII Summit of Women: lobby, connections, networking, mutual support … as a way to promote the advancement of women in business.
“Or are we connected or no chance of overall success,” summed up yesterday in the
close of the summit Maravillas Rojo, president of the business incubator Barcelona Activa. “The lobby is the best tool for success”, also said Adela Subirana, president of Grup Set of entrepreneurs, which seeks to unite civil society and public institutions.

The summit, organized by the U.S. entity and that Globe Women
known as the “Davos for women”, he left Barcelona data illustrate the urgency of female lobbyists. According to a study from Corporate Women Directors International, Spain, with only 4.6% of women on boards, is placed under this heading in the penultimate place in the developed economies, followed by Japan with 2%. The top ten Spanish companies have no income single women in their boards, among others, the low presence of women is often due to be related by family businesses.

To achieve equality in leadership and corporate power, the pro lobby ideas thrown together and publicized initiatives that are successful. One mentoring programs are for professionals starting out, which already exist in some companies, “because women have less access to informal system of ‘mentors’, based on men that go for drinks and talk about football,” he argued Australian executive Ann Sherry.
In the same vein, women entrepreneurs were asked the summit to accept interns in the summer.

It was also agreed to create an Internet portal to network women
entrepreneurs and promote business between them, after which a Zambian mining entrepreneurs called the participants to invest in Africa. “Actually, this is about women helping other women to win any more space,” said Irene Natividad Philippine, director of the summit. On Friday, in just ten minutes, $ 10,000 was raised to believe that Afghan women micro-enterprises.

The need for increased power came another idea that has permeated the conference: creating a corporate culture that allows people-men and women to combine professional and personal life. “The most important is to achieve a balance between the two sides,” said Amparo Moraleda, president of IBM Spain, “and you can get effective results by prioritizing the physical presence for hours and hours, in an office.” The only male speaker of the evening said that he must work “seven days a week” and a veteran entrepreneur of the audience replied that “this is a horror.”