CaixaBank organizes a talk with Laia Palau and Ainhoa López as part of Women's Day
Spar Girona |
Tuesday, 04 March 2025
During the meeting, Laia Palau and Ainhoa López shared their experiences as elite players, emphasizing values such as effort, teamwork and the spirit of improvement.
As part of the celebration of International Women’s Day, the CaixaBank Auditorium in Girona was the setting for a very special meeting between Uni Girona players, Laia Palau and Ainhoa López, and users of social entities such as the Oncolliga, the Iris Group of Figueres, as well as CaixaBank clients and employees. The event was moderated by Rosó Feliu.
The attendees had the opportunity to get to know two leading figures in women’s basketball, share experiences and talk about the importance of sport as a tool for self-improvement and social cohesion. The meeting highlighted the role of women in sport and society, in a month that is especially significant for the female community.
During the day, Laia Palau and Ainhoa López shared their testimony as elite athletes, addressing aspects such as teamwork, emotional management, effort and the importance of sport in personal and collective development. Attendees had the opportunity to interact with them in a close and relaxed atmosphere, in an activity that reaffirms CaixaBank’s commitment to gender equality and female empowerment through sport.
With these types of initiatives, CaixaBank and Uni Girona, a club sponsored by the financial institution, continue to work together to bring women’s sports closer to society and highlight its importance as a driver of change and inspiration.
CaixaBank and its commitment to women in sports
CaixaBank is a pioneer in supporting women in sport and in recognizing and promoting women’s sport as an elite sport. It currently has around a hundred strategic agreements focused on promoting equality and making women visible in sport, championing elite women’s sport and raising awareness about the importance of diversity and equality in companies and in society.
A clear example is basketball. For more than 13 years, CaixaBank has been a sponsoring partner of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB) and an official sponsor of the Spanish national team, both women’s and men’s, in all its categories. It is also the main sponsor of the Spanish Federation of Sports for People with Physical Disabilities, with the aim of promoting wheelchair basketball.
Through its links with teams, CaixaBank drives the development of clubs and promotes the practice and promotion of basketball for its training teams and basketball schools. Through these agreements, it encourages participation in official competitions, as well as the organization of campuses, granting scholarships to young athletes and training coaches.
Wengage, CaixaBank’s commitment to equality
CaixaBank has the Wengage diversity program, a cross-functional project developed by people from all areas of the entity based on meritocracy and promotion in equal opportunities. Wengage includes internal measures to involve and raise awareness of all people about the value of diversity, promote flexibility and work-life balance, and strengthen the role of women.
Externally, Wengage also develops initiatives for clients and society, based on promoting diversity in four areas of action: leadership and entrepreneurship, innovation and education, sports and the rural environment.
