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After many marks and infinite struggles against patriarchy, female work life has been evolving positive. Today, there are already several women who run retail chains, banks, media companies, insurance, pharmaceutical products, construction, carpentry, agriculture, energy and transportation. Every day, the change is more palpable.

Despite the progress that have been achieved, there is still a long way to go to eliminate the glass roof for women and achieve true equal opportunities and access to jobs.

As official statistics of the past 2020 show, the proportion of women in the IBEX-35 councils is of scarce 27.7%, but it supposes an increase of 3 percentage points over the previous year.

The fight follows, and we continue to demonstrate that we are worth a lot. To motivate towards this necessary change, we want to present you to 10 successful companies created by Spanish entrepreneurs.

1.Baby Friendly Companies and Paris Baby. Elena Gómez del Pozuelo

The project is to accompany and help employees who decide to be parents. In general, the human resources departments and corporate social responsibility decide whether the company participates in this important movement.

Its creator, also Baby co-founder in Paris and Womenalia, believes that the biggest challenge facing women who undertake and promote projects is funding and trust. Specifically, Gómez del Pozuelo has always been in favor of creating a solid commercial loan environment for interesting projects created by women.

2.Ideas4all.. Ana María Llopis.

Ideas4all is a project that leads in the Start-UPS market, generating opportunities for digital and technological transformation.

Llopis has received awards and prizes such as International Internet Day by the Association of Spaniard Users in 2013 or the International Forum Prize for Women "women who make a difference" 2007, in Chicago. Likewise, she was selected as one of the Top100 Women Leaders from Spain in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

3.Fintonic. Lupine Iturriaga.

It is a leading financial platform in Spain that resolves the main financial needs of more than one million users by allowing them to make payments around the world and control their finances from the same application. It was released in 2012, at the height of the financial crisis, and has raised more than 50 million dollars in sponsorship financing such as Atresmedia.

Lupine left her banking career in 2004 when she realized that she wanted to undertake and build an own company. She then noticed that she had the opportunity to launch a platform that will help her friends and relatives to organize her assets, identify savings opportunities and analyze her finance.

4.Socialphilia.. Gaby Castellanos.

Socialphilia is a project that is responsible for marketing strategies through an authentic and innovative strategy developed over many years. The company has collaboration contracts with companies such as Netflix, Coca-Cola or LogoTV.

The founder is an entrepreneur, expert in marketing and a reputed specialist in social networks in the field of advertising and marketing.

5.WE ARE KNITTERS.. Pepita Marín.

It's ae-commerce Centered in the world of wool and much more. It has become a multinational company that sells 95% of its products outside of Spain.

Pepita and the co-founder of her, Alberto Bravo, were inspired by a great woman who woven up in the New York City subway, turning a simple hobby in an international business.

6. Genengine..Ana Medina

The purpose of the project is to help doctors to complete their diagnoses in the shortest possible time and design personalized and accurate treatment methods.

Ana studied a health engineering career and specialized in bioinformatics based on medical and genomic genetics, an area of ​​knowledge that has been acquiring more and more importance in the world.

7.Dietx.. Virginie Rogé.

Dietx is a company that integrates nutrition, health and food sale. It is a branch increasingly in vogue, because its goal is to promote health care by integrating all kinds of trends. Products and services are developed that not only nourish the body, but also offer a wellness program to the final consumer.

Virginie Rogé is a degree in Business Administration and MBA for IESE. She worked in Deloitte and lived in New York, where she saw the emergence of juice-based detox diets. Thus Dietx was born, a company specialized in the joint sale of nutrition, health and cosmetics.

8. Socialcar. Sea Alarcón

Social Car is a P2P platform where car owners can rent their car safely from their neighbors. It is the first operator ofCarsharing P2P in Spain.

Mar Alarcón, the founder and CEO, can boast of full international training (a law degree at the UAB, an LLM at the University of London, a business program at the University of Beijing and Ceibs & PDD in IESE). She says she is cycling every day at the socialcar headquarters to work and enjoy her team.

9.Ten. Eva Martín.

It is a platform that has developed its own geoperfire engine and automatic learning to profile to users according to their behavioron-line andOffline., offering retailers digital marketing campaigns with high profitability.

Eva she obtained a double diploma in Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the École Centrale Paris in 2003. She then completed the MBA of her at the College des Ingenieurs. Before he found a tendency, she worked for seven years in Nestlé, where she occupied different managerial positions in logistics. She has always had an entrepreneurial spirit.

10.Social Nest.. Margarita Albors

Social Nest Foundation is the pioneer impact accelerator in Spain. Founded in 2010, the company supports people and organizations that seek to have a positive social and environmental impact through technology.

The Founder, Margarita Albors, is a specialist in impact and investment entrepreneurship. Margarita works and makes changes at the exact point where the business, investment and impact coincide.