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SPARK provides a supportive forum for women across DAS UK to challenge gender bias and create a more inclusive culture.
It works closely with the senior team and other diversity networks to address issues affecting women and to deliver initiatives and activities aimed at helping them to develop their skills and capabilities, enabling them to succeed in their own way.
Our mission is to support and empower women at all levels within our business to achieve success in their own way, providing them with opportunities to learn and develop in a way that is right for them. Our exec sponsor is Matt Allam, the Director of Technology, Data & Strategic Change and we aim to:
We are proud signatories to the Women in Finance and Women in Law Pledge created by The Law Society, the Bar Council of England and Wales and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX).
The pledge expects firms to set high level targets to make a difference for gender equality either within their organisation, or as an advocate and champion for change.
We are really pleased to have submitted our three year action plan with key focus areas to improve gender diversity within DAS Law.
This is a step forward and positive change for equality and myself and the leadership team are pleased to support this work.
Brynley Case, Director of Legal Services
Women in Finance Charter
The Women in Finance Charter is owned by HM Treasury and commits firms to supporting the progression of women into senior roles in the financial services sector by focusing on the executive pipeline and the mid-tier level; each firm should set its own targets and implement the right strategy for their organisation.
It requires firms to publicly report on progress to deliver against these internal targets to support the transparency and accountability needed to drive change.
Our target is to reach 50% representation by the end of December 2025.
*As of 16th March 2021, when we signed the Women in Finance Charter.
We aim to achieve gender balance through the following initiatives and activities:
We’ve signed up the Women in Law Pledge and the Women in Finance Charter to support our goal of gender equality in our leadership population. Making these promises gives us the opportunity to benchmark our progress, learn from other signatories, and drive the change that we want to see.
We’ve started to develop our action plans using lots of different insights from the business, and have doubled down on our commitment to make DAS UK a place where everyone has the same opportunities to progress.
When we signed up to the Charter in March 2021, we had 32.25% female representation in senior management (defined as Exco-1). As of August 2022 we have 33.33% female representation in senior management. We believe we are on track to meet our Charter target of 50% by our deadline of 2025.
“Overall DAS UK has made positive progress in pursuing its agenda for equality in female representation in our management. Key foundational steps have been actioned and give us confidence we can meet our WIF Charter commitment of equality by 2025.” Matthew Allam, Accountable Executive for DAS Women in Finance
We know that simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute their best work and reach their full potential.
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