EqualVoice United 2025: 10 companies sign charter
Ringier's EqualVoice initiative for more visibility of women in the media aims to advance equality in the world of work. Ten Swiss companies sign a charter and become part of the "EqualVoice United 2025" network.
The fifth of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals calls for gender equality and the advancement of girls and women to be achieved by 2030. Ringier also believes it is time to close the gender gap, as the media company wrote in a statement on Monday.
The "EqualVoice United 2025" alliance aims to consistently address this goal in the Swiss workplace and achieve it as early as 2025. In cooperation with EDGE, the global certification standard for gender equality in business, Ringier is embarking on this path together with the nine other Swiss companies Bank Cler, Ebay, the Insel Group, ISS, Mastercard, Migros, Oerlikon, Swiss Post, Sunrise UPC and Ringier Axel Springer Switzerland.
As part of their commitment, the ten companies sign a charter that sets out the four most important areas for action. The companies are to commit to these by 2025:
- Anchoring equal opportunities and equal rights in the organizations
- Promoting a mentality of equality and integration
- Communicating the benefits of equality to other companies and society
- Create contemporary working conditions for all employees
"According to the Global Gender Gap Report of 2020, it will take 99.5 years until gender equality is achieved worldwide. We don't want to wait that long," holds Annabella Bassler, initiator of the EqualVoice initiative and CFO of Ringier. "We are pleased to join nine companies in forming the EqualVoice United network to work together to achieve the goal in the Swiss workplace in 2025. With EDGE at our side, we have the necessary expertise."
The following people have signed the charter: Mariateresia Vacalli, CEO Bank Cler, Valérie Schelker, Head of Human Resources Swiss Post, Severina Pascu, Deputy CEO / COO Sunrise UPC, Sarah Kreienbühl, Member of the Directorate General of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives MGB, Roland Fischer, CEO OC Oerlikon, Simona Scarpaleggia, Board Member EDGE Strategy, Daniela Massaro, Country Manager Switzerland Mastercard, Fritz von Hardenberg, CFO Central and Southern Europe eBay Marketplaces, Julia Braun, Chief People & Culture Officer and Member of the Management Board ISS Switzerland, Marc Walder, CEO Ringier, Michèle Bürgi-Hadorn, Head of HR "Development & Recruiting" and Diversity Insel Group (in picture, from left to right).l.t.r.).
