AES Andes Receives Iguala Conciliation Seal from the Ministry of Women's Affairs

May 31, 2023 - The Ministry of Women's Affairs and Gender Equality, through SernamEG, has recognized the progress made by AES Andes in the areas of diversity, integrity and equity by officially awarding the Iguala Conciliación Seal. With this recognition, AES Andes is the first company in the energy sector to achieve this standard.

The award ceremony was led by Priscilla Carrasco, Director of the National Service for Women and Gender Equality (SernamEG), and AES Andes CEO Javier Dib. Also present were Paula Pizarro, National Coordinator of the Program of Good Labor Practices with Gender Equality of the company; the Human Resources Director of AES Chile, Carla Requena; the Commercial Manager of APPLUS Chile, Marcelo Sartori, along with executives, employees and collaborators of the Company.

The Iguala Conciliación Seal is the certification granted by the agency to organizations that implement integrated management systems for gender equality and equity, reconciliation of family, work and personal life and co-responsibility, as part of Chilean Standard 3262, under which AES Andes was recertified at the end of last year. During the activity, the Company also officially received the award certifying its recertification in the standard by APPLUS.

The director of SernamEG congratulated AES Andes for the award and highlighted the importance of having these spaces for public-private collaboration: "The awarding of the Iguala Conciliación seal is the final milestone of a complete process in which the organization has gone through the gender approach, identifying the existing gaps and then creating work plans that make it possible to reduce them".

The CEO of AES Andes, Javier Dib, thanked SernamEG for the award and said that "the Iguala Conciliación Seal confirms everything we have been working for and our conviction that the only way to transform the Company is to be open-minded. We need to be an integrated and diverse team in order to find new solutions and pursue the transformation we want as a Company: one that is 100% renewable, diverse, integrated, innovative and future-oriented".

Through its Diversity and Inclusion Policy, created in 2019, the Company adheres to the Gender Parity Index initiative promoted by the World Economic Forum and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in addition to being part of the Ministry of Energy's Energía +Mujer program, continuing its commitment to promoting women's development.

The results of this initiative can be seen in various indicators. While 21% of women held leadership positions at the end of 2021, this figure reached 27% at the end of 2022. Meanwhile, the presence of women in the Company's total workforce increased from 10% in 2019 to 16% today.