GENDER EQUALITY IN SWEDEN & DENMARK Assessing leading companies on workplace equality
BRIEFING MAY 2020
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This Report is part of a project funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the Eu- ropean Union (2014-2020). CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...... 5 Key Findings...... 5 Recommendations...... 6 Heatmap OMX Stockholm 30 / OMX Copenhagen 20...... 7
SWEDEN / OMXS 30...... 8 Key Findings...... 8 Case Study, Tele2...... 9 Recommendations...... 9
DENMARK / OMXC 20...... 10 Key Findings...... 10 Case Study, Chr. Hansen...... 11 Recommendations...... 11
APPENDIX...... 12
EQUILEAP GENDER EQUALITY SCORECARDTM...... 13
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...... 14 INTRODUCTION
This briefing presents an overview and com- Four Swedish companies and only one Da- parison of the performance of the companies nish company have published gender-segre- in the Swedish OMXS 30 and Danish OMXC 20 gated pay information, while across Europe indices on gender equality. It is part of a lar- an average of 28% of companies are publi- ger European project assessing gender equa- shing this information. lity in 255 public companies listed on ten Danish and Swedish companies are lag- national indices across the European Union. ging behind the rest of Europe on having an- Any European findings mentioned in this brie- ti-sexual harassment policies in place. Only fing refer to the overall findings for these 255 41% of OMXS 30 companies and 30% of OMXC companies. 20 companies publish anti-sexual harass- KEY FINDINGS ment policies, both of which are significantly below the European average of 48%. The average gender equality score of com- AstraZeneca is the only company across panies on the Swedish OMXS 30 index is 49%, these two indices to have all eight policies markedly higher than the 38% average score that promote gender equality in the work- of companies on the Danish OMXC 20. place, making it one of the five European The companies on the Swedish OMXS 30 companies out of 255 to achieve this. hold nine out of the top ten spots in this com- parison of the two indices, including the hi- GRAPH 1 / FEMALE EMPLOYEES BY COMPANY ghest (Tele2). The best performing company LEVEL (IN %) on the Danish OMXC 20 is Chr. Hansen, hol- 0 ding the 3rd spot in this comparison.