Access Bank Initiates Strategies To Ensure Gender Parity

Access Bank Plc has inaugurated various strategies to ensure gender parity in its organisation adding that it has taken a decision to speed up the process and also pledged to make gender parity a priority. The financial institution noted that the move would help include and advance women in every society.

In commemoration of the 2016 International Women’s Day celebration recently, Access Bank also stated that it promoted gender empowerment and equality during a two-day programme which focused on advocacy and gender awareness.

This, it stated served as a demonstration of its commitment to gender equality, women empowerment and inclusiveness, to which its ‘W’ initiative is dedicated.

As part of the outlined programmes, the bank hosted a workshop on Gender Balance for its male staff and customers aligned with the theme for this years’ celebration ‘Pledge for Parity’ to elicit participants’ commitments on helping women and girls achieve their ambition, challenge conscious and unconscious bias and subscribe to the concept of gender balanced leadership.

The session was mainly targeted at male participants and leading organisations, would also encourage equal valuation of the contributions of women and men in the workplaces and the society at large.