Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000891478-25-000054
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Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
Chunk 113
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 VP, VP, Director, Manager, Expert and Branch Manager which account for 14% of our employees.

51 At year end, 38.4% of senior management positions (Senior Executives and Other Executives) are held by women. This ratio does not include joint ventures due to their temporary nature and joint management (they account for only 1.7% of our workforce).

52 When this programme or others were rolled out in a country where regulatory restrictions apply, the programmes are adjusted to comply with any required principles.

53 We have a growing proportion of employees performing STEM-related functions (Data and Services, Information Technology-IT Support, and Products), totalling 30,089 employees across the Group.

54 The gender pay gap measures differences in remuneration between all women and men, regardless of job type. For our management purposes, we use the gender pay gap as the difference between the median remuneration of men and women, expressed as a percentage of men's remuneration.

55 Comparable to 2.2% at the end of 2023. As in previous years, we follow local regulations for the calculation and recognition of employees with disabilities. In most countries, disabilities are recorded at the employee's request with the support of a certificate issued by social services (e.g., degree and date of disability). In the UK, disabilities are recorded at the employee's request and do not require a certificate.

56 The law in 12 of Grupo Santander’s markets (accounting for 69% of our total workforce) allow for the voluntary request of gender identity information from employees.

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or racial minority in these markets account for over 31.6% of the total workforce. We have employee inclusion networks such as: Reach, Bold and Talento não tem cor, which in 2023 had over 1,300 members. Anti-harassment protocol and training To reaffirm the Group’s ambition to combat discrimination 57 , 108,213 employees across the Group received specialized training in 2024, while 101,651 employees undertook a course on sexual harassment. These courses are part of our global anti-harassment protocol and General code of conduct as a common framework to establish guaranteed standards and fight against discrimination and behaviours that contravene fair treatment and moral integrity.

Moreover