AXA : Accelerating on our path to gender equality

The AXA way to gender equality

AXA has adopted a comprehensive approach to gender equality that intends to redress the balance for all talent, in order to support the development of women and men throughout the company.

To this end, AXA has organized sponsorship efforts to support the development of high-potential employees, with a focus on talented women as a lever to increase the representation of women among our top executive population. Since 2016 AXA has a global parent policy encouraging both parents including same sex parents to take fully paid leave when a child comes into the family, while its flexible working policies are open to everyone. Such efforts enable each employee to contribute in the best way they can and take advantage of every available opportunity.

Shattering the glass ceiling

AXA is committed to gender parity at every level, including top management. At our most senior executive level (partners group), we have already increased the percentage of women from 15% in 2017 to 24% in 2019. Over the past year, women accounted for 55% of the new CEO appointments made across the Group. In our global leadership network of 300 people, we are committed to achieving full gender parity by 2023.