The president of the CEOE Equality Commission has today announced the ISO World Project “Guidelines for promotion and implementation of gender equality and women’s empowerment” ).
This standard, promoted in Spain by the Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE) and developed by an international intersectoral group of more than 50 experts, including Val Díez, president of the CEOE’s Equality and Diversity Commission and general director of Stanpa, the National Association of Perfumery and Cosmetics, will pursue effective equality between women and men in organizations around the world, both public and private.
The future standard, which is currently in the development phase, will guide organizations on how to promote and apply gender equality and women’s empowerment. To do this, it will offer a series of guidelines that will include both the framework and the resources, policies, tools and good practices that allow contextualizing, promoting and establishing a culture of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Likewise, the document will focus on the inequality resulting from the specific gender roles assigned to women, girls, men and boys, and will be applicable to all types of organizations, public or private, regardless of their size, location and scope of activity.
As Val Díez herself has explained in the framework of the Commission, “The great advantage of ISO standards is that they are a tool for global communication”. This allows companies to better understand each other regarding certain issues. In the same way, the authorities recognize and legitimize actions and products that meet ISO standards, which, continuing with Díez’s explanation, de-ideologizes and strips the issue of cultural biases. “They are voluntary, but they constitute valid consensus references for everyone”, it is finished.
In this way, ISO standards allow companies to demonstrate compliance with different criteria to their customers. stakeholdersconsumers and society in general as it is an objective element on which to base their commitment.
“Equality is an indisputable right and one of the main Sustainable Development Goals, specifically the fifth. However, there is still a long way to go to make it a reality around the world. And this ISO was born with the vocation of being a useful and transformative tool that contributes to paving that path”, Val Díez has influenced.