Our STUDIES

What FINANCI’ELLES OFFERS

Financi’Elles offers a simple and pragmatic approach, that suits the needs and particularities of each of its partners:

For networks : mutall support and enrichment through the pooling of actions benefiting their members and the sharing of best practices to accelerate change within their companies.

For female executives : offer a space for discussion, personal enrichment, and open cross-networking, highlight women’s achievements and concrete actions by companies, and actively contribute to making the sector more attractive to women.

For companies – HR departments : share a common repository for tracking progress in gender diversity. Make tools available that are supported and recognised by industry experts.

For companies – General Management and Communications Department : encourage commitments to promoting gender diversity in partner companies for the benefit of the sector as a whole.

OBSERVATORY

2017
Survey of more than 100 000 sector executives, women and men. The results will provide input to the work of the Observatory in 2017/2018.
2016
Gender diversity indicators : creation of a sectorial benchmark in partnership with Deloitte firm, and external communication in order to enhance the image of the sector, but also to contribute to the deconstruction of received ideas regarding gender equality in our sector.
Creation and publication of the first Financi’Elles / Ethics & Boards index regarding the percentage of women at managerial level in the sector in France, i.e. Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the TOP 100.
2015
Sharing of best practices and the development of proposals to HR departments on professional practices to generate trust and gender diversity.
2014
Survey of 91,000 executives.
2013
Co-creation of the working group on Trust, in partnership with the Montaigne Institute.
2012
Creation of working group sharing best practices with companies.
2011
Survey of 86,000 executives.

The purpose of the Financi’Elles Observatory is twofold:

To measure the level of gender diversity in our sector, from both a quantitative and a qualitative point of view.
To identify and share best practices implemented within our businesses and to propose new ones.

To accomplish this, the Observatory relies on two important tools:

A national survey among executives in our sector, held every 3 years, on the topic of gender diversity and trust.
A working group comprised of 30 HR departments from companies in the sector, sharing their practices and reflecting together on ways to advance the gender diversity agenda within our sector.

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The WHITE PAPER

Through the White Paper, Financi’Elles is seeking to encourage the virtuous cycle of change by targeting companies with a recognised, visible, and measurable commitment to gender diversity.

Five key dimensions characterise such companies:

They are committed to a proactive gender diversity policy.
Their general management is personally involved in the issue.
They communicate internally on their commitment and related actions.
They provide their support to existing networks and those currently under development, which themselves are members of Financi’Elles.
They facilitate the survey on trust among male and female executives in the finance sector and allow the sector’s overall results to be published.

The FINANCE DIRECTOR’S DINNER

The Finance Directors’ Dinner, held every two years under the patronage of the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, aims to help promote women’s access to the top level of organisations in the finance sector.

The financial sector can claim to be relatively at the forefront. After all, women account for over 25% of membership on boards of directors in finance, which is over and above the levels required by the law on quotas.

The sector’s challenge is to identify, mobilise, and prepare future generations at all levels of the company.