The fifth edition of the Barcelona Woman Acceleration Week (BWAW), a cycle of conferences dedicated to the representation of women in the business field, will begin this Tuesday. The opening ceremony will feature the participation of outstanding women in various disciplines of the economic, scientific or cultural world. Such as the Undersecretary of Finance, Lidia Sánchez; The president of the Diputación de Barcelona, Lluïsa Moret, the deputy mayor of the City Council of Barcelona, Maria Eugènia Gay or the General Secretary of Equality and Feminism of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Sonia Guerra. The BWAW will be held until Thursday at the Dfactory enclosure, in the Free Zone of Barcelona, and will bring together 71 speakers in 15 debate sessions. The event is promoted by the Consorci of the Free Zone of Barcelona (CZFB) and has the collaboration of the INCYDE Foundation of the Chambers of Commerce of Spain and RTVE Play. The last edition, the BWAW received more than 2,600 people. More information on the Closingop Index, the gender gap has closed 0.8% in the last year in Spain, which means that the country has placed 0.8 percentage points closer to parity in 2024. The BWAW organization has proposed to continue helping to advance in this direction and “propose solution parity, equal opportunities and promotion of women. ”According to Pere Navarro, special delegate of the State in the CZF,“ it is not enough to say that little by little the reality will be reflected that women are half of society; You have to put a time limit. You have to stimulate that representation to emerge something that already exists, the female talent. Many times it does not emerge because there is considered that there is no space or is not the right time. ”The company and the public sector will be protagonists of the first day, with conferences such as: policies for equality: the transforming role of administrations, with the presence of Marta Farrés, mayor of Sabadell; The legal talent does not understand gender with Laura de Rivera, director of Legal Advice of Caixabank; or connecting dreams: the power of young entrepreneurs. There will participate outstanding figures such as the athlete Noah Tamaral, Àngels Fitó, rector of the Oberta University of Catalonia, Marta Hernández, co -founder of Sorellas The Brand and several young entrepreneurs. Wednesday and Thursday, the conferences will be dedicated to the technological, cultural and scientific field. Some of the outstanding talks will be: culture as a great scenario to promote equality, in which Anna Cler, deputy director of RTVE Catalonia will be. and Judith Colell, president of the Catalan film academy; or them in science: inspiring generations. The talks will be held in the context of International Women's Day, with dozens of activities to raise awareness about sexism and discrimination.
