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Promoting Women
Equal opportunities for all
IG Metall—a men’s club? This statement shows once again just how inaccurate prejudices can be. After all, more than half of our workforce is female.
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IG Metall is a modern organization in which women and men are represented on an equal footing—at all levels. Today, women lead both large and small teams, head administrative offices, serve on supervisory boards, and, as executive board members, are responsible for major areas of responsibility.
Support Starting with Training
To offer women good opportunities for a strong start and professional development, even in political roles, IG Metall actively seeks out female applicants when selecting trainees. More than one-third of our trainees for full-time union work are women. And women already make up nearly 30 percent of political union secretaries today.
Well-prepared for future roles
IG Metall is committed to gender equality in the public sphere. But that’s not all. As an employer, it goes without saying that the union must also fulfill its commitment to gender equality within its own workforce. The goal is to achieve a 30 percent representation of women in full-time leadership positions by 2019. Currently, this figure stands at 17 percent. The same applies to members of supervisory boards, where the current proportion is 20.5 percent.
This initiative is supported by a leadership development program for emerging leaders and other personnel development measures that promote networking and knowledge exchange.
Regular monitoring, an annual report to the IG Metall Advisory Board, and a comprehensive gender report every four years provide updates on the progress of women’s advancement at IG Metall. For our commitment to increasing the proportion of women in specialized and leadership positions, IG Metall took third place at the 2012 diversity Award ceremony hosted by the Federal Association of Human Resources Managers.
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