Vice, August 10, 2020: Argentina’s Largest Bank Just Made a ‘Historic’ Pledge to Hire More Transgender People
Argentina’s largest and state-owned bank has instituted a quota for hiring transgender people, a “historic” move that will ultimately result in a workforce that is at least one percent transgender.
Argentina is a leader on LGBTQ freedoms in Latin America, and the decision by the state-owned Banco de la Nación sets a strong example for the industry to follow.
“The time of exclusion, of a biased gaze and discrimination is over,” Santiago Cafiero, chief of cabinet ministers under President Alberto Fernández, said at the official signing on Wednesday of the agreement between Banco Nación and Asociación Bancaria, the union of bank workers in Argentina. The decision is an industry first, according to Sergio Palacio, the head of Asociación Bancaria.
