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Women in finance

We’re building a culture where everyone is valued and rewarded fairly.

Creating an ever more inclusive and diverse workplace

We are committed to creating an ever more inclusive and diverse workplace. This includes fairer gender representation across all of our organisation.

Here, we'll explain how we are doing it and what we’ve achieved.

Our measure (target)

Women currently represent 60.3% of the workforce at Nationwide. However, we know this reduces at more senior levels.

Our diversity measures include increasing the percentage of women in senior leadership roles to 50% by 2028. This is also our Women in Finance Charter target.

To make sure we’re on track, we check progress regularly and report directly to our:

  • Executive Committee (monthly)
  • Nominations and Governance Committee (quarterly)
  • Board (annually).

Our progress

When we signed the Women in Finance Charter in 2016, representation of women in senior management was 32.6%. As of 31 August 2022, representation is 35.5%.

Our aim is to achieve 50% representation of women in senior management by 2028.

We acknowledge that we still have work to do to achieve gender balance so we are taking bolder, evidence-based and targeted action to accelerate progress and achieve sustainable impact. Our gender pay gap page highlights the activities we are taking to make progress.  

Our career families D and E cover our senior management and executive populations.

Society wide measures for executives and senior managers

Gender measures for Nationwide at Board level - August 2022

Gender measures for Nationwide at Board level - August 2022
Society gender measures and progression (August 2022) Measure 2028 Current Actual - Aug 2022
Board 50% total population 54.55%
Executive Committee 50% total population 60%
Table showing gender measures and progression at Board and Executive Committee level.

Gender measures for career families D to E - August 2022

Gender measures at levels 3-5 - August 2022
Society gender measures and progression (August 2022) Measure 2028 Current Actual - Aug 2022
Career families D to E 50% 35.5%
Table showing gender measures and progression for career families D to E.
(Nb. All figures rounded up or down.) (Source: Nationwide August 2022 HR People Metrics.)

Senior level support

A member of our Executive Committee, Lynn McManus is Nationwide's executive sponsor for Women in Finance.

We’re proud to be part of the Women in Finance Charter

By signing up to it, financial service organisations commit to supporting the progression of women into senior roles.

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