Gender - Corporate Responsibility

Gender

Women in Management: Our Approach

A key component of our diversity strategy is to enable our female employees to fully contribute, achieve outstanding business results, and build successful careers at ANZ.

Organisations that are employers of choice for women have access to a larger talent pool, are well positioned to represent the needs of customers and communities, and understand the direct link between a higher proportion of women in top management and increased profitability.

Currently, ANZ's managers and executives do not reflect the diversity of our internal population and customer base - particularly in terms of gender and cultural diversity. This limits our opportunities to break into new markets and maximise new business opportunities.

ANZ has a business imperative to attract, develop, promote and retain senior women. This will allow us to capitalise on the increasing importance of women in today's business environment, build business, and outperform.

How We Are Driving Change

Some of ANZ's key programs include:

The ANZ Women's Network: a global network to help ANZ women achieve greater performance, greater business success and greater
Mentoring and career development: coaching, mentoring and networking are offered through various ANZ programs to help women succeed.
Family friendly policies and flexible work arrangements designed to help women succeed in business. Find out more

Read about ANZ's approach to advancing women in the workplace (PDF 2.8MB)

Progress in 2008

Overall the percentage of women in management positions at ANZ remains the same as last year at 37%. We exceeded our three year targets for women at Executive and Senior Manager levels in New Zealand and while we have achieved year-on-year increased in Australia, we fell short of our targets.

Executives: 25% Australia / 21% (+18%) New Zealand
Senior Managers: 28% Australia / 23% (+6%) New Zealand
Managers: 41% (+1%) Australia / 33% New Zealand.

Significant developments included:

The appointment of three women as direct reports to our CEO. Susie Babani, Group General Manager, Human Resources; Margaret Payn, Group General Manager Strategy and Marketing; and Tania Motton, Head of the Office of the CEO.
Our inaugural Women's conference, attended by nearly 200 ANZ leaders, where ANZ's global priorities to advance women in leadership positions were agreed.
The ANZ Global Women's Network was established to help ANZ women achieve greater performance, business success and recognition for their achievements.

Employee head count by country and gender:

Country	% of males	% of females
Australia	41.70%	58.30%
New Zealand	35.63%	64.37%
Asia	38.60%	61.40%
Pacific	40.28%	59.72%
UK & Europe	63.90%	36.10%
Americas	57.90%	42.10%
Middle East & South Asia (inc India)	53.34%	46.66%
India	58.82%	41.18%
Dubai	100.00%	0.00%
South Asia	40.83%	59.17%
Total	43.33%	56.67%

Women in management

Australia

New Zealand

Women in management: New Zealand

Asia Pacific

Women in management: Asia Pacific

India

Women in management: India

Europe, Middle East & Americas

Women in management: Europe, Middle East & Americas

The future

Our focus is on accelerating female career progression, removing bias and ensuring there is a broad range of support tools and networks for women to help them build their careers at ANZ. This includes:

An internal 'SharePoint site' offering women information about services that may help them progress their careers such as career coaching, tips from successful ANZ women, relevant global research and discussion forums;
A new self-paced career development program specifically for females and career resilience training for female managers; and
Internal and external women's networking initiatives

We have committed to achieving a minimum 2-3% increase in women in management positions in all major geographies in 2009 as part of our Corporate Responsibility goals.

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