📋 Tender Overview
Promoting the inclusion of women in the workplace is the main objective of the project recently approved unanimously by the Committee on Women and Gender Equality.The motion authored by Senators Isabel Allende Loreto Carvajal Claudia Pascual and Paulina Nez and Senator Gastn Saavedra proposes that companies with 200 or more workers prepare an annual report on the state of gender equity within the organization and the measures adopted in its favor.This as is clear from the proposal in order to promote the inclusion of women in the workplace especially in large and medium-sized enterprises in sectors of the economy where they have traditionally been excluded.During the session the president and co-founder of ChileMujeres Francisca Jnemann shared the experience of the Foundation that annually prepares a report on gender indicators in companies in Chile according to standards 386 and 461 of the Commission for the Financial Market CMF.Thus according to standard 461 the number of women in the company in front-line management in directories must be reported number of persons by sex nationality age range length of employment and disability pay equity postnatal workplace and sexual harassment among other indicators.With this experience the Commission agreed to reference the CMF gender indicators report according to standard 461 so that there is uniformity of data.In addition it was supported to change the date of delivery of the report proposed in the motion for the month of January so that each March the report is communicated to the Interministerial Committee for Equal Rights and Gender Equity and keep it permanently available to the public on the respective websites of the companies.Likewise the motion proposes that companies with 50 or more workers belonging to the mining research and development financial energy transport and construction sectors must prepare such a report.
