Focus on equal opportunities: promoting women as a competitive advantage

Relevance of the advancement of women in companies

• The importance of women's professional development for the company's success.
• Current statistics on gender distribution and gender equality.
• Advantages of diversity.
• Recognizing, promoting and making targeted use of women's potential.

Disadvantages and obstacles

• Identification of actual and potential disadvantages for women in professional life.
• Exchange on professional and social obstacles.

Skills shortage and equal opportunities

• Equal opportunities as a strategic advantage in the competition for specialists and managers.
• Women as an indispensable resource for sustainable corporate success.

Strategies to promote equal opportunities and career development

• Measures for sustainable equal opportunities, e.g. childcare, reconciliation of family and career, reduction of gender stereotypes, transparent salary negotiations, flexible working models.
• HR instruments for the advancement of women, e.g. mentoring, gender pay gap analysis, unconscious bias training, parental leave and re-entry programs.
• Introduction and implementation of diversity and equality guidelines.

Best practices and worst practices

• Successful and less successful practical examples of promoting women in professional life.