Gender
Our pursuit of gender equity in a traditionally male majority industry has continued since 2014 when female employee targets were first set. We monitor our Australian progress against global enterprise targets, outlined below. Executive (Enterprise target 25%) 30% Leader (Enterprise target ≥25%) 21.9% Snr Professional (Enterprise target ≥30%) 21.4% Professional (Enterprise target ≥30%) 40.2% Entry (Enterprise target ≥45%) 44.7% Championing breastfeeding in the workplace To help more of our women feel supported to breastfeed or express milk during working hours, in 2021 we received the Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace Accreditation from the Australian Breastfeeding Association, by addressing three key areas for our business: 1. Space: Provide a private space for employees to feed their baby or express milk 2. Time: Develop a policy to support lactation breaks and flexibility 3. Support: Set a comprehensive communication strategy to enable a culture of a truly supportive breastfeeding environment. Parental leave and return to work Our Parental Leave Policy supports our people before, during and after periods of parental leave by providing time off work to care for their child, and by encouraging them to return to work at GHD. Our policy includes entitlements for non-birth giving and same sex partners. We’ve seen, and encourage, an increase in males taking leave as a primary caregiver while their partner returns to work. And to make the return to work transition easier, our people are encouraged to adopt flexible working practices. We also offer 10 days paid leave for partners leave.
Women in GHD (WinG) Program Our WiNG group was established in 2007, in Australia, to provide a platform for our women to feel empowered and to network. In 2014, WinG became an ERG, and today, WinG is active globally, running local initiatives and events, providing a platform for our women to connect, inspire, grow and lead all of our people to foster a culture of gender equality inclusion. International Women’s Day We celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021 in line with the theme #ChooseToChallenge – we can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. Our people around the world celebrated the achievements of women and pledged what they challenged on IWD. We also profiled the many incredible women of GHD who are challenging some of humanity’s most urgent needs every day, in a video compilation. Pay equity We’re committed to achieving pay equity – this is central to our reward culture at GHD. We have tools that help us assess and maintain pay equity: our GHD People System, market-based salary ranges and our core job architecture framework. In 2021, we entered into a threeyear partnership with a company specialising in pay equity, which provides us with tools to quickly access our pay equity, as well as consulting to provide best practice guidance and third-party oversight. We also conduct annual gender pay equity reviews and completed our first ethnicity pay equity review in 2021. We focus on these review findings as part of our annual salary reviews. Jobs Academy: Helping women get back to work We’ve partnered with Future Women’s Jobs Academy program for 2022 to help women who are unemployed, underemployed or looking for a career change. This 12-month pilot aims to leverage connections with partner organisations to identify employment opportunities. As a partner to the program we’ll be presenting open roles with GHD in two webinars, promoting roles on the program’s website and assessing applicants.
Enterprise leadership programs at GHD
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of participants were female during FY 20/21
of 198 participants were female
Over the 20/21 financial year, 52 percent of all participants in our enterprise leadership programs were female. Programs include the emerging leader program (24 months), future leader program (nine months), business group leader program (seven weeks), coaching skills for senior leaders (six weeks), leading professional services firms – Harvard Business School (two days), and the global executive leader program (nine months).
