Carolina Castro

Carolina Castro (born 1979^[1]) is an Argentine businessperson and trade unionist. She was the first woman to join the Executive Committee of the Argentine Industrial Union and was named by the BBC as one its 100 Women in 2020.

Carolina Castro
Born	1979
Citizenship	Argentina
Education	University of Buenos Aires
Occupation(s)	Businessperson; trade unionist
Awards	100 Women (BBC) – 2020

Biography

Castro has a degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires.^[2] During the government of Mauricio Macri, she served as the undersecretary in the Ministry of Production, for small and medium-sized businesses.^[3][4] During G20 in 2018 she worked on the global business forum strand.^[5]

In 2019 she was elected by the Asociación de Fábricas Argentinas de Componentes (Association of Argentine Component Factories) or AFAC to represent the automotive sector on the Executive Committee of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA).^[1]  She is the first woman to get a managerial position in the UIA in its 130-year-history. Her activism has helped drive changes towards greater gender equality in the workplace.^[6]

Castro is the third generation to work in the family business, Industrias Guidi, which manufactures automotive components and supplies them to Toyota and General Motors.^[3] The company has broken stereotypes by employing women in the production area at a higher average than in the rest of the workforce. She recently published Rompimos el Cristal (We Broke the Glass), an anthology of conversations with 18 Argentine women who excel in business, arts, politics and science.^[6][7]

Awards

Castro was named as one of the BBC 100 Women of the Year, in 2020.^[8]

References

1. "Carolina Castro | Planeta de Libros". PlanetadeLibros (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 September 2021.
2. "Quién es Carolina Castro, la dirigente de la UIA que acompañó a Alberto Fernández en el Acto del día de la Independencia". www.cronista.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 September 2021.
3. Pradilla, Monica. "11 Latinas on the Global List of the Most Inspiring and Influential – LatinAmerican Post". latinamericanpost.com. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
4. Clarín.com (6 October 2020). "Carolina Castro, la única mujer en la cúpula de la UIA, criticó el impuesto a la riqueza y la Ley de Teletrabajo". www.clarin.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 September 2021.
5. "Due argentine tra le 100 donne più influenti al mondo nel 2020". Gaucho News (in Italian). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
6. "Quiénes son las 100 Mujeres elegidas por la BBC para 2020 (entre ellas 11 latinoamericanas)". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 September 2021.
7. Castro, Carolina (2 October 2020). Rompimos el cristal (in Spanish). Paidos Argentina. ISBN 978-950-12-9978-6.
8. "BBC 100 Women 2020: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2021.