with the Women’s Forum, Orange continues rolling out its policy for gender equality in the workplace
October 15, 2009 - Orange is partnering the new Diversity Club in connection with the Women’s Forum, for which it has been a “founding partner” for five years now and which will be taking place in Deauville from October 15 to 17. For this occasion, Orange is also presenting an exclusive study into women engineers in France – Mutationnelles 09 – confirming the strength of its commitment to a policy for gender equality in the workplace.
The Diversity Club brings together the businesses that are most committed to promoting diversity. Its ambition is to showcase market best practices and identify their key success factors in order to distribute them as widely as possible for the benefit of all society.
This last action ties in naturally with the Group’s strong policy for gender equality in the workplace, one of the highlights of which saw the signing on March 3 this year in Brussels of the Code of Best Practices to encourage women scientists to pursue a career in the information and communication technologies sector.
Sponsored by the European Union and backed by five companies from the new technologies sector, this document aims to encourage women to study sciences, embark on a career as engineers and increase the feminization rate for technical professions. To achieve this, the businesses that have signed up to the Code are looking to showcase effective initiatives for all European companies. These initiatives cover all the stages in a career, starting from guidance at school, and are built around several programs:
shadowing
Orange is committed to developing a shadowing program at European level, as already deployed in France since March 2009. The principle is simple: a school girl “shadows” a woman engineer during one day at work, enabling her to imagine herself with and plan for a scientific career. With these shadowing actions, one of the objectives over the short term is to break away from any preconceived ideas in terms of how young women see the technological sector and its professions, in this way encouraging them to study sciences.
“H/F Management” program
This educational program in schools and universities aims to promote a gender mix and provide girls with insight into the key success factors for careers as woman engineers. The program draws on women role models, and also includes male students in the schools.
and more…
The Group is taking part in several communication actions in schools and colleges, in partnership with the Femmes Ingénieurs association for the Les 10000 ambassadrices des Sciences program, once again paving the way for women engineers to get involved in schools and colleges.
Orange is firmly convinced that gender mix, in all functions and at all levels within the business, is a guarantee of success for its economic performance, and has for several years been rolling out a policy for gender equality in the workplace, aiming to be outstanding across all its businesses and professions.
find out more
Women's Forum official websiteOrange at the Women’s Forum and the MutationnElles09 studyshadowingdiversity within the Groupdownload the Code of Best Practices to encourage women scientists to pursue a career in the ICT sector
