Women can also be ‘Peter’: the campaign on work gender inequality in Holland

EFE.- Cientos de mujeres en Holanda se rebautizan en la red social LinkedIn como “Peter” para denunciar la desigualdad de género en el mercado laboral, después de que un estudio mostrara que hay más directores ejecutivos (CEO) con ese mismo nombre en las grandes empresas neerlandesas que mujeres ocupando el cargo.

Women will keep this week - until 28 - their last name, their photo and all the details of the curriculum in their LinkedIn profile, a network oriented precisely to work use, but adopting Peter's male name.

They denounce that there are more men with the same name as women at the head of large companies that are quoted in the stock market;The female presence in its directors around 13%;Only 14% of managers within the 100 largest companies in Holland are women, and this amounts to 28% in the middle managers.

Outside the business world, the dynamics are not very different: less than 25% of university professors are women, only 37% of the seats of the Dutch Parliament occupy them.

The campaign was started by the Women Incan organizations.and Brandedu, based on these data that include information from 2020 from the Office of Social and Cultural Planning (SCP) - which prepares reports for the Government and Parliament - and the Central Statistics Office (CBS), as well as a supplier studyEquileap data.

“Such lack of diversity at the top of the company should not exist.Women are strongly underrepresented in decision -making positions, when it has been shown that diversity at top generates benefits, ”explain the organizers of the Mijnnaamispeter campaign.NL (‘My name is Peter’, in Dutch).

An analysis of a list of 94 executive directors of 93 companies that are traded in the stock market showed that five CEO are called Peter, and only four of the total executive directors are women, that is, a 4.3% of the total, said the campaign spokeswoman, Cécile Wansink.

According to the gender equality index (2021), Holland obtains the worst score in Europe in the representation of women in management positions.

“Gender stereotypes are an important barrier for women to reach the top.But the unequal distribution of work and care also plays an important role in the employment opportunities of women, who dedicate 1.5 times longer than men to unpaid care tasks ”, they underline.

A study published in September stressed that retired men in Holland receive an average pension of 34,000 euros per year ($ 38,000), while women obtain almost 20,000 euros ($ 22,000), a difference of more than 40%, placing the gapGender in the Dutch System as the worst in the European Union (EU), only behind Cyprus.

An advisory group on sociocultural matters last year warned that women are underrepresented in management roles in Holland because they are more likely to have to work part -time, and only those who work at least 28 hours per week has a possibility of ascending toMedium management positions.

When decisions are only made by homogeneous groups (sex, age and color), the quality and balance of these decisions and organizations falls cease to be “a reflection of society,” says Women Inc.and brandedu.

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The government is already trying to legislate in this field.This month a law entered into force that forces the 5,000 largest signatures in Holland to establish concrete objectives to guarantee a greater gender balance between the Board of Directors and Senior Management, a measure that has the support of business unions.

In addition, it establishes a mandatory gender quota in the supervision councils of the companies that are traded in the stock market, to ensure that at least 30% of its members are women.

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