Vattenfall has a long way to go in achieving its main diversity objective…

Vattenfall’s focused diversity objective is to increase the number of women in management positions and to obtain an equal ratio between the number of women employees and women managers within the organisation.

The figures clearly show a gap between the share of women in senior management positions versus women in the workforce. Today 25% of the Vattenfall’s employees are women, while only 17% of managers are women. The message from the most recent “My Opinion 2008” survey also points to the fact that more work needs to be done. One statement that scored low among women employees was “Men and Women have equal career opportunities at Vattenfall”. Only 65% women agreed with the statement, compared with 77% for men. For Vattenfall, this shows that promoting equal opportunity is more important now than ever before.