Management team representative
Gender equality checklist
Retention: Increased retention of women
Creating credibility that gender equality is something that the management team really owns and drives
- When I, as a management team representative , decide on the management team's objectives, they should include concrete gender equality objectives, such as gender and seniority balance.
- As the management team representative , I must ensure that a why-what-how plan for gender equality exists, among other things to emphasize that this is a central issue for management. The plan contains the purpose of what we want to achieve, what is to be done (policies, guidelines, programs, etc.) and how it will be done (events, blogs, checklists, etc.). The plan should be communicated internally, for example at induction training.
Create and support both formal and informal networks
- As a management team representative, I will ensure that the overall benefit to the company of employees participating in networks should be a management responsibility and not placed on the individual networking employees.
- As a management team representative , I create the conditions for internal networks by encouraging, supporting and budgeting for members to influence much of the content and format themselves, and by establishing cooperation between the networks and management.
Prevent employees from having to get used to exclusionary behaviors
- As a management team representative , I must communicate the company's culture, values and, above all, clarity about what behaviors are not acceptable.
Attract: Increase the number of female applicants for tech jobs
Ensure that all activities visible to the target group are gender balanced
- When communicating both internally and externally, for example in newsletters, presentations and meetings, as a management team representative , I actively highlight people from both genders in all aspects of communication. In any visual material used, both genders should be given equally active roles, so that one gender does not give the impression of being subordinate.
- When I, as a management team representative, prepare a presentation that potential candidates for the company (e.g. students) can be expected to attend, I check it with a function in the company, or a colleague, who can make suggestions on how to make the presentation more attractive to both genders in equal parts.
