How is ABN AMRO promoting gender equality?

In Richard Reporting, Richard Kooloos, who heads up Group Sustainability, drops in on colleagues to find out how they personally are making sustainability a reality. In this episode, he talks to Lisendy, Moenty and Marco about their commitment to greater gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Gender lens

Last year, ABN AMRO signed the Women’s Empowerment Principles, an initiative of the United Nations. The principles focus not just on things like promoting female leadership, but also on health and safety issues, for instance. As a signatory, the bank has committed to assessing all its activities from a new perspective – through a gender lens. Much is happening in this area, but it’s important to see where the bank still needs to play catch-up. This may potentially involve its internal organisation, but the services it provides to clients and the financing policy will also come under review.

ABN AMRO is also holding frequent discussions with clients, NGOs and other stakeholders to jointly seek opportunities for improvement, with a concrete social impact. In the video, Lisendy, Moenty and Marco talk about how they’re contributing to greater equality between women and men through campaigns, the financing policy and sponsorship.

Read more about the bank-wide ‘Banking through a gender lens’ programme in ABN AMRO’s Social Impact publication and the research on equal pay at the bank.