Presentation

In September 2015, the United Nations approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which contains 17 goals. Issue 5 is “achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls.” All signatory governments have stated that achieving the fifth goal will contribute decisively to the progress of the other goals.

Goal 5 sets six milestones in very different areas; from preventing any form of gender-based violence to ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health. At 50a50 we support all goals, but we focus our mission on achieving the following goal:

  • 50a50. Ensuring the full and effective participation of women, and equal leadership opportunities in all areas of decision-making in political, economic and public life

To achieve this goal and to implement the 2030 Agenda, governments are asking for the support of businesses and civil society as a whole. That is why this association was born, with the aim of extending support for SDG 5 to as many people, companies and institutions as possible.

Entering the economic and business institutions representing Catalonia is a women’s right contemplated by the Equality Law (17/2015) approved by the Parliament of Catalonia, and it is an obligation that all organizations must fulfill in order to be representative, democratic and have the right to access public subsidies.

Statutes of the Association 50a50 (in Catalan)

Decalogue of 50a50 members

The 50a50 Association is defined by the following decalogue, which is subscribed to by all members at the time of registration:

1. Values

We are committed to a fair and democratic society, we show a global, diverse and inclusive vision of society and we promote new organizational models that are governed by diversity, respect, honesty, responsibility, sustainability, ethics and transparency as values.

2. Feminism

We are feminists, which means that we defend the principle of equal rights for women and men, and in particular we work to advance towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 5 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda: gender equality.

3. Lobby

We are lobbyists: we are a group with a common interest that carries out actions aimed at influencing at all levels in order to promote decisions favorable to our goal, which is to promote equal opportunities between women and men mainly in the public, economic, business and labor spheres.

4. Parity

We seek a greater representation of women in decision-making positions, to move towards parity in the governing bodies of institutions, public and private entities and companies, based on the benefits that diversity brings to the world and the society.

5. Law

 We demand the application of Law 17/2015 on the effective equality of women and men, approved by the Parliament of Catalonia.

6. Quotas

We are in favor of quotas as a temporary measure to achieve parity in the decision-making positions of institutions, entities and companies. Therefore, in staff selection or promotion processes, we prioritize a female candidacy over a male one on an equal footing of conditions.

7. Empowerment

We work for the empowerment of women managers, pre managers, professionals and entrepreneurs, we support other women in their development and we help them become visible in the economic, business and institutional world, promoting sorority as a value.

8. Candidates

We promote and support women candidates in board and plenary elections of entities and institutions, and other processes for selecting and designating decision profiles.

9. Alliances

We recognize and ally ourselves with organizations and entities that meet the objective of parity in their governing bodies and with other associations that work for the same purpose.

10. Co-responsibility

We enact co-responsibility among all members of the household for domestic tasks and care, as the backbone of a parity, fair and democratic society.

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