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Gender equality

Our commitment

Learn how we’re engaging all genders in our continued support and progress towards gender equity.

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How we approach gender equality

We’re proud of the progress we’ve made on gender equality, but we know there’s more to do. As well as internal data, we use memberships and external frameworks to guide us.

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International Women’s Day 2024

We’re investing in women and girls to accelerate progress. Watch the video to hear from our colleagues about how we’re breaking down barriers and driving inclusion for employees, clients, and in our communities.

Our commitments

We signed the UK HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter, in 2016, to further progress the gender agenda and work together to build a more balanced and fair industry.

We have been included on the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index 2023, for the eighth year in a row.

We recently earned the EDGE certification for our work on Gender Equality. This globally recognised accreditation is a demonstration of our commitment to gender equality and we are really proud to be the first financial institution in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Sri Lanka to receive this.

The UN Empowerment Principles

Our CEO, Bill Winters, signed a statement of support for the United Nations Women Empowerment Principles, in April 2018. These seven principles underpin the work we are already committed to which supports women in the workplace, marketplace and community.

The Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) is a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact. They are a set of seven principles for business, offering guidance on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community:

We are proud to support the UN Women of Empowerment Principles as they reinforce our ongoing commitment to gender equality. We celebrate and champion diversity because an inclusive working environment is good for our colleagues and our clients.

Bill Winters | Group CEO

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Supporting all life stages

Enhanced parental leave, worldwide

New parents can access a minimum of 20 weeks paid leave, regardless of their gender, relationship status, or how a child comes to permanently join their family.

Making a difference

How our colleagues and programmes are helping women advance, in the workplace and beyond.

Women in Finance Charter

In 2016, we signed the UK HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter to further progress the gender agenda and work together to build a more balanced and fair industry.

The pledge includes:

1. Having one member of our senior executive team who is responsible and accountable for gender diversity and inclusion

2. Setting internal targets for gender diversity in our senior management

3. Publishing progress annually against these targets in reports on our website

4. Having an intention to ensure the pay of the senior executive team is linked to delivery against these internal targets on gender diversity

As part of our commitment to transparency, we have been publishing gender data annually for over 10 years. We will continue to publish progress annually against our gender targets as we believe this will help to increase accountability and drive the pace of change across the industry.

Since signing the UK HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter in 2016, we’ve seen a positive trend of women taking up senior leadership roles, increasing from 25% to 32.5% as of December 2023. This takes us closer towards our pledge of having women occupy 35% senior leadership roles in 2025.

We’re proud of the progress that we have made to date but recognise there is more work to do.

Podcast

Meet the women closing the gender gap in enterprise tech

Gender diversity is not just the right thing to do – it’s a must. That’s the unanimous message from these three women who’ve made it onto the Heroes top 100 female future leaders list by helping create a more diverse ecosystem in enterprise tech. Get inspired by their personal and professional stories, and their impact on women inside and outside the workplace.

Gender pay gap disclosure

Under legislation that came into force in April 2017, UK employers are required to publish their gender pay gap annually. We have published our gender pay gap for the UK under UK legislative requirements and have extended the disclosure to cover our hub locations in Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE and the US. Our latest Fair Pay Report sets out details of our gender pay gap and actions we are taking to increase the representation of women in senior or highly paid roles.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Impact Report 2023 (including our annual Fair Pay reporting)
2022 Gender Pay Gap Report

Read our gender pay gap results from our 2022 Fair Pay Report

2021 Gender Pay Gap Report
2020 Gender Pay Gap Report
2019 Gender Pay Gap Report
2018 Gender Pay Gap Report