Indra confirms its commitment to gender equality and adheres to women's empowerment principles

As a proof of commitment to gender equality, Indra, the premier IT company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe, has signed the Women’s Empowerment Principles, an initiative conceived by the United Nations Global Compact and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

With the slogan “Equality means Business”, the principles gives guidance on the empowerment of women in the workplace, marketplace and community while guaranteeing inclusion of their talent and experience. The principles offer a vision for companies to assess and analyze ongoing initiatives, reference values and current evaluation practices. 138 companies across the globe have signed this initiative.

Adherence to these principles proves Indra’s commitment to gender equality as stated in the company’s Code of Ethics. Besides this, Indra’s policies deal with diversity management, balance measures and above all they include an Equality Plan prior to the Organic Law 3/2007 of March 23, 2007, for the effective equality of women and men which was renovated in 2009.

Indra’s Equality Plan consists of initiatives about access to employment, selection and promotion, training, work-life balance, pay, specific measures to prevent sexual harassment/gender discrimination and communication.

Indra occupies the first position in the Ibex-35 in terms of amount of women on Boards. From 2005 on, Indra’s Board of Directors has observed this aspect carefully for a wider gender diversity within its corporate governance.

As a global company with over 30,000 professionals from 40 different countries, gender and age, for Indra diversity management is a must, a sort of a propeller to innovation contributing to future sustainability and a key element to promote thorough social responsibility policies.

Principles to promote equality

Indra’s adhesion to the Women’s Empowerment Principles implies that the company endorses its seven principles:

1. Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality.
2. Treat all women and men fairly at work –respect and support human rights and nondiscrimination.
3. Ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers.
4. Promote education, training and professional development for women.
5. Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women.
6. Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy.
7. Measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality.

Leadership in sustainability

Indra’s commitment to sustainability reflects in its response to challenges and opportunities present in its target sectors: shareholders, staff, clients, suppliers, environment and society by mean of innovation which is the core of the company’s activity and corporate responsibility.

An example of such commitment is the inclusion of the company in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes with continuous presence for five consecutive years and its leadership in the IT services and Internet subsector.

The company’s policy is focused on sustainability related issues, corporate responsibility and corporate governance in order to align itself with best practices and both national and international guidelines. For this purpose, the company’s regulations and procedures are continuously supervised and improved.

Indra is the premier Information Technology company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America. It is ranked as the second European company in its sector according to investment in R&D with nearly € 500 M during the last three years. In 2010 revenues reached € 2,557 M of which a 40% came from the international market. The company employs more than 30,000 professionals and has clients in more than 100 countries.