Inequality between women and men at work is a structural problem that can be measured with strong numbers. An example: in 2022, only 36% of management positions in Spain will be held by women, according to Grant Thornton’s Women in Business 2022 report.
However, this is the highest percentage in history. It shows that gender diversity on boards of directors is starting to become less of a chimera. In other areas, such as health, they are the majority. According to the National Statistics System Report, more than half of the doctors in Spain are women.
We identify the riddle that went viral in 2018. “A father and his son were traveling by car and had a serious accident. The father died and the son was taken to the hospital because he needed a complicated emergency operation, which they call medical eminence. But when he entered the operating room he said: “I can’t operate on him, he’s my son”. How is this explained?
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Do you remember? It must have come to you through one of the groups you frequent on WhatsApp. Did you get it right? The medical excellence who does not want to operate on the child is his mother, but only 14% of people who were asked a riddle in the framework of a study conducted by two researchers from Boston University gave the correct answer.
Goodbye to gender biases
If you fail and don’t think he, there is an explanation: as we grow up, our brain learns and creates associations from what surrounds us, be it by reading it in a book or living it in our own family tree. It is automatic, but it generates prejudices and biases, in the case of this riddle, gender. This is an unconscious thing, but it determines what models we should follow from a young age.
About how important it is to have other women to look up to as we navigate our own careers and other obstacles and stereotypes that the female gender must overcome in the workplace, we spoke on this podcast with Arola Sacristán, an expert psychologist in organizations and human resources , and responsible for from the Department of People Management of the Official College of Psychology of Catalonia.
Those women and their careers will become benchmarks. They will inspire and awaken vocations in girls and young people because when you see them flying an airplane, playing soccer or on a board of directors, it is easier to imagine that they will do the same. Especially, in those cases where they were able to excel in fields where, traditionally, there has been a greater male presence. That happened to Alba Oliveros, the first woman to narrate LaLiga Santander and LaLiga SmartBank football matches every day on Movistar Plus+, and Inés Lucía Ovejero, an engineer by profession who was chosen as the tenth most influential engineer in under 35 in Spain. Girls today have two more examples.
Source: La Verdad
I am Shawn Partain, a journalist and content creator working for the Today Times Live. I specialize in sports journalism, writing articles that cover major sporting events and news stories. With a passion for storytelling and an eye for detail, I strive to be accurate and insightful in my work.
