At the Danske Bank Group, we want to be an attractive workplace for everyone with the right competencies regardless of gender, ethnic background and age. We believe that diversity is a strength that helps to ensure the Group's access to the most talented employees.
We therefore work deliberately to promote inclusion. For us, inclusiveness means that various groups of employees can pursue their careers without meeting cultural or organisational barriers. We have already achieved much in this regard, but we recognise that we still have some work ahead of us. For example, we want to have more women managers.
Women in management
In December 2010 we signed the Danish "Charter for Women in management" from the Danich Ministry of Equality, and in early 2011 we published a baseline report showing our specific goals for getting more women in management. One goal is to have 22% women in senior manangement in 2015 against 18% in 2010. We also have goals for the lower management levels.
To ensure that we achieve a higher percentage of female managers by appointing the most competent candidates, we have followed up on this initiative with targets for talent development.
More specificially, we have set targets for the percentages of women who are appointed successors for the Group's senior management positions as well as for female participation on the Group's leadership talent programmes.
These initiatives to increase the percentage of women in the pipeline are supported by a strengthened senior management focus. For example, in 2012 we will add a goal of increasing female managers to senior managers' performance agreements.
Read more about Danske Bank Group's goals for women in management
Last updated on 9 February 2011