We need more women in public and private sector management – both because diversity generates returns for enterprises and also because it makes sense for society to utilise all its resources. This charter has been drawn up jointly with public and private sector companies as part of the Government’s efforts to encourage companies to inspire more women to take up management positions.

The aim of the charter is:

• to ensure that women and men have equal opportunities to pursue management careers


• to launch specific, measurable initiatives in companies and organisations to increase the proportion of women at all levels of management


• to make sure that public and private sector enterprises deploy all talents.

In endorsing this charter we undertake to make concrete efforts to bring more women into management positions. Efforts will be adapted to the particular company’s circumstances – sector conditions, for example – and current percentage of women managers.

We undertake:

1. to prepare a plan or strategy to attract more women into management positions or maintain an equal balance and to launch initiatives to this end.


2. to develop and set goals and/or target figures for the number of women in management, for the proportion of women at selected executive levels to be achieved within a fixed time period or for the proportion of women in talent pools or in the management pipeline.


3. to support a human resources policy that promotes equal career opportunities for women and men.


4. to ensure that appointment and recruitment procedures help identify women with leadership potential and thus attract both women and men candidates in internal and external recruitment drives.


5. to set a minimum number of women candidates if the companies uses head-hunters for management recruitment.


6. to create conditions for women to develop their careers through networks, mentoring programmes and other targeted initiatives.


7. to share experience and results of initiatives launched on the basis of the charter, for example, by submitting contributions to the Minister for Gender Equality’s theme page on women and management on the Internet.

We adopt the Minister for Gender Equality’s charter for more women in management.


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