More Male Hosts at Santander Meeting Show Spain's Culture Change
- Santander AGM will have almost as many male as female ushers
- Spanish banks gradually making progress in gender equality
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When Santander shareholders descend on the bank’s home town for its annual general meeting, the red-liveried staff showing them to their seats will be both men and women.
Of the staff welcoming investors to the event in the seaside town of Santander on Friday, 60 percent will be female and the rest male, the lender said. It’s one way of showing how the bank’s attitudes to gender roles have evolved: a decade ago, 85 percent would have been hostesses, Santander said.