Or Betty Snyder Holberton? They are women who changed the world through technology. Women who transformed the traditionally masculine world of technology.  And these women are not the exception. Indeed, at Indra more than 13,000 women work with great determination to innovate and generate added value for our clients and the society we live in. Making the world a better place to live in through consulting and technology.

Companies have a duty to manage workforce diversity in order to extract every possible benefit. As I'm sure you already know, driving innovation means we can respond more robustly to the range of client demands. As a company we have a social responsibility to supporting diversity, but it is also a business imperative. Diversity ensures that companies are more sustainable and can grow. It is important that diversity is understood as a factor that can drive differentiation and improvement, and thus represents a competitive advantage. It would be a lie to claim that diversity is easy to manage, and it would also be ingenuous if we were to focus only on the positive aspects and fail to prepare action plans for potential hurdles.

International Women's Day offers the perfect opportunity to congratulate ourselves on how far we've come. For example, Indra has been awarded the Equality Emblem, a certificate of excellence in equality granted by the Spanish government's Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality. But we must also remember what still needs to be done. This year we made two very significant steps forward at the company: we published our corporate policy on gender diversity, which establishes minimum standards applicable to every country in which we operate. We also introduced a Women and Leadership program, which seeks to drive the professional development of women. And we must continue to promote reflection and work towards a future in which celebrating an International Women's Day is no longer necessary.

As we have seen, diversity management is a corporate responsibility, and any progress we make will benefit society as a whole. In this regard, we recently renewed our commitment to the Diversity Charter in Spain and became a signatory of the UN Women Panama Declaration, which seeks to help women, teenagers and girls with disabilities exercise their rights to social inclusion. I call on all companies that truly believe in equal opportunities to spearhead social change by committing to their employees, but also to the public as a whole.

One thing is clear: every internal policy or procedure, and every commitment and pledge will mean nothing if individuals do not truly believe in and engage with change. I would like to sign off by congratulating all those individuals, men and women, who demonstrate through hard work that we are better together. Congratulations for doing so each and every day.