General News
24 March, 2024
GWMWater celebrates women
GWMWater has celebrated International Women’s Day with a community breakfast in May Park, Horsham.
GWMWater has celebrated International Women’s Day with a community breakfast in May Park, Horsham.
GWMWater executive manager of customer and employee experience Adele Rohde said the organisation has made significant progress toward gender equality, and values diversity and inclusion in all its forms.
“We thought 'what better way to demonstrate our commitment to inclusiveness than opening up our celebrations to the community',” Mrs Rohde said.
GWMWater’s representation of women in leadership roles grew by 18 per cent between 2021 and 2023.
Representation on the organisation’s board of directors rose by 14 per cent in the same period.
On average, men employed by GWMWater were paid 16 per cent more than women in 2021.
By 2023, this gap had been reduced to three per cent.
“GWMWater has worked hard to achieve these results through a range of initiatives and strategies,” Mrs Rohde said.
“We have women of all ages and many different professions at GWMWater who have different aspirations and have faced a range of challenges in their work, home and social lives.
"We’re also celebrating progress we’ve made towards gender equality, having recently submitted a report to the Commission for Gender Equality in the Public Sector."
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