The president of the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC), Cani Fernandez, lamented on Tuesday the lack of women in a forum on gas organized by the Spanish Gas Association (Sedigas). “Preparing my speech, I reviewed today’s program, a very interesting and timely program (…), if I can make a small recommendation for next year, that it be a little more diverse, it will not be that think that here what is fossil is not only gaslet’s see if with that we can make it a little more diverse in terms of female talentthat the sector has it, and a lot”, Fernández has disfigured.
Between the five discussion tables and the conferences held within the framework of the annual meeting of SedigasAccording to the event’s own agenda, a total of 17 speakers participated, of which only two were women. To this we must add the participation of the president of the CNMC herself, in charge of the closing speech of the day, and the secretary of state for energySara Aagesen, who spoke at the opening of the meeting.
The President of SedigasJoan Batalla, spoke after Fernández’s speech and did not refer to the subject. In this sense, it should be remembered that the general secretary of Sedigas is Naiara Ortiz, who participated in a press conference together with Batalla before the start of the day, but in the same framework of the meeting.
Calviño and his refusal to appear in photos without women
The reproach of the president of the CNMC in the face of the lack of women in this forum is reminiscent of the refusal made this month by the first vice president of the Government and Minister of Economic AffairsNadia Calviño, to pose for a photo at a meeting on business leadership due to the absence of women.
“Women not only have to be there, we have to be seen and we have to be heard and whenever I have had the opportunity I have influenced and tried to improve the visibility of women at the national level, but also in international events and forums,” Calviño said about that situation in an interview on Antena 3 collected by Europa Press.
As Calviño explained, what happened was not “an isolated gesture”, but rather forms part of “a deeply feminist conviction“which, as he assured, he has been deploying throughout his career.