Fundación Ronsel is a beneficent and educational institution located in Galicia (Spain) focused on improve employability, fostering wage employment and supporting self-employment.
They have been working for years on programs in which women are the protagonists of a fairer, more egalitarian and stable business leadership.
Why did you join this programme?
The daily work of the Fundación Ronsel is aimed at improving the employability of all people, facilitating access to the world of work for all types of people. This makes us aware of the reality that women live, the high rate of poverty they have and especially the barriers to access to positions of responsibility that they have, even though they are trained people with appropriate skills.
Furthermore, within the employment guidance programs, most of the people we attend to are women, and in the entrepreneurship programs, we are seeing more and more women entrepreneurs, whom we accompany throughout the process. For this reason, we consider it important to give a voice to all those women we work with day after day, who have their own projects and who lead incredible initiatives.
On the other hand, we also think it is important to identify the difficulties they face, such as work-life balance or the impostor syndrome, and that is why this program adds value and gives us the possibility of approaching them from a more enriching, constructive and mutual learning point of view.
What is your assessment of the work done so far? What do you highlight?
We are very positive about all the work done so far. The research part allowed us to get to know different projects, laws and realities in the form of Good Practices, allowing us to have a broad and formed vision of the subject. Even so, and taking advantage of the second question, what stands out most about this programme is the network that we have generated with different women and men, who have come to the activities and have made this programme possible, creating synergies between them, promoting joint empowerment and giving us such interesting and constructive moments that we will undoubtedly never forget.
What are the expected outcomes? What conclusions have you drawn?
The expected results are to continue with the network that has been generated in the program, to promote initiatives of this type where positive referents are generated and a voice is given to people who normally do not have one. We also hope that the work carried out will make visible all the barriers that women experience on a daily basis, not only in access to political and economic positions of responsibility, but also in their working life in general.
Therefore, this type of program should raise its voice to demand more effective measures for work-life balance, encourage female entrepreneurship through funding, promote spaces for exchange and generate tools to educate society in a less violent and more egalitarian communication where all people have a place.
