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    Banking On Women

    Empowering Women. Transforming Banking.

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Our commitment

At Standard Chartered, we believe that diverse teams build stronger banks and better futures. Women are at the heart of everything we do – as leaders, innovators, client champions, and change-makers across every market we serve. Our commitment to gender equality is not a policy on paper. It’s woven into our culture, our hiring, our leadership pipelines, and our daily decisions.

The numbers

Since signing the Women in Finance Charter in 2016, we have made meaningful progress in increasing the representation of women in senior leadership roles globally. As of December 2025, women represented 33 per cent of senior leadership, reflecting an increase of 8 percentage points since 2016.

We recognise that strengthening the pipeline of women into senior and higher paid roles requires sustained focus and structural change. To support long-term progress, we have extended our global senior women representation target by three years to 35 per cent by the end of 2028, allowing time for our actions to take effect and deliver sustainable outcomes.

At Standard Chartered we support you to:

  • Lead

    We develop women into the leaders they are meant to be. Through targeted development programmes, executive sponsorship, and mentoring from our most senior leaders.

  • Grow

    We invest in your career from day one. Our structured rotations, skills academies, and cross-border mobility programmes give women the experience and exposure needed to thrive.

  • Belong

    Employee networks, flexible working policies, enhanced parental leave, and a zero-tolerance stance on discrimination are core to who we are.

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    Gender Network

    Our global employee network, active in 30+ countries. Hosts events, career clinics, speaker series, and peer connections across borders and businesses.

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    Equal pay commitment

    We conduct annual pay equity reviews across all markets and publish our findings. We are committed to closing any identified gaps within 12 months.

Standard Chartered gave me the confidence to lead – not just a team, but a region. I never felt my ambition was a problem here.
Aisha M
Regional Head of Transaction Banking, Africa
What I value most is that inclusion is genuinely lived here – in meetings, in promotions, in the everyday conversations that shape a career.
Fatima K
Director, Retail Banking, UAE
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Awards & Recognition

  • Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index – Constituent member, multiple years
  • Euromoney – Best Bank for Diversity & Inclusion, Asia
  • Financial Times – Top 100 Employers for Women
  • UN Women’s Empowerment Principles – Signatory
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