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Llanos Cuenca González, Ana Esteso, Elena Navarro Astor
Para mejorar la igualdad de género, reducir daños de reputación en las organizaciones y mejorar su resiliencia, es necesario analizar su situación real y participar en un diálogo constructivo. Sin embargo, a menudo éstas carecen de la formación necesaria para implementar políticas exitosas con ese fin. Este artículo trata de cubrir dicho vacío proponiendo una herramienta para evaluar la inclusión de género actual en las CS. Se evalúan tres objetivos: 1) garantizar negocios con organizaciones que respeten la igualdad de género, 2) promover el emprendimiento femenino y 3) divulgar políticas de igualdad de género a lo largo de la CS.Palabras clave: Cadena de Suministro; Resiliencia; Igualdad de Género.
As the world becomes more accessible and interconnected, the interest in improving social conditions and the sustainability of supply chains (SC) grows. Resilience is defined as the ability of a company to change, adapt and / or recover quickly by aligning its strategy, processes, technology and people. Previous studies of supply chain management have addressed the concept of sustainability from the economic and environmental point of view, while the social aspect has hardly been studied. However, there is a growing demand for supply chains to improve their social values, and strong pressures to avoid commercial and reputational damages related to discrimination, exploitation and bad work conditions. An important factor of social sustainability is precisely gender equality. Gender analysis allows knowing the positions, conditions and specific needs of women and men, their access to control of resources and the decision-making process. It is a tool that allows to understand women’s and men’s different needs, and to give more efficient, focused and participatory responses. To improve gender equality, reduce the risk of damage in organizations, and improve their resilience, it is necessary to be aware of the real situation of the gender perspective in the SC and participate in a constructive dialogue. However, organizations often lack the awareness, tools and training necessary to implement successful policies to that end. Monitoring gender performance throughout the companies’ SC has become an important factor of social sustainability. The organizations maintain relationships with different companies developing alliances and collaboration strategies. Incorporating gender equality does not only mean establishing actions in its internal organizational sphere, but also transferring this commitment to the companies with which they interact, either as competitors or suppliers or even public entities. The recognition of companies will facilitate the development of common strategies. In this work, SC is deepened as one of the key areas of a maturity model that allows to evaluate the gender perspective in organizations, without limiting their agility and resilience. It tries to cover this gap by proposing a tool that helps to evaluate the current presence of gender perspective in SC. This tool assesses three objectives: 1) guarantee business with organizations that respect gender equality: gender integration helps organizations to better understand their suppliers how to manage, measure and improve their performance in gender sustainability, improving relations with them and clients in turn., 2) promote women's entrepreneurship: to achieve this goal, we must invest in policies and programs that favour women’s advancement at all levels and in all economic sectors, and 3) disseminate gender equality policies throughout the SC:it implies transmitting the commitment towards gender equality of the entity itself. These objectives are evaluated through a set of questions. The first step will allow the definition of best practices to improve the gender perspective in the SC. In addition, an example of validation of the tool in a SC of the agricultural sector is presented. The tool is easy to use and the results are easy to interpret to obtain conclusions.Keywords: Supply Chain; Resilience; Gender Equality;
