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Inclusion and diversity is integral to our culture, our values and the way we do business.
Understanding and responding to the needs of our customers is best accomplished when our people and leaders reflect the diversity of our customers and their diverse views are encouraged and valued.
To build tomorrow's bank today for our customers, we will continue our focus on creating an inclusive workplace anchored in our values of care, courage and commitment. Equality and respect are integral to how we live our values, meet the needs of our customers and deliver our strategy.
Our Inclusion and Diversity strategy has three key pillars:
Learn more about how we are supporting our customers and the communities that we serve.
Our goals support our commitment to advance gender and cultural representation across leadership roles, Indigenous employment parity and accessibility and inclusion for people with a disability. Our goals may be reviewed and changed from time to time. Our current goals are as follows:
As part of our commitment to transparency and disclosure around our Inclusion and Diversity activities, we report our progress against our key goals, initiatives and measures, including goals for the previous financial year in our annual report.
2021 Financial Year: Key Diversity Metrics
As at 30 June 2021:
As self-nominated in the Group’s FY2021 annual people and culture survey in September 2020*:
* Percentages prior to FY2021 are not comparable, as Bankwest was included from FY2021 and the format of some questions in the people and culture survey changed.
Refer to our 2021 CBA Annual Report for more information on our progress and diversity metrics.
1 Since 2019, rather than report separately, we have reported on our inclusion and diversity as part of non-financial reporting in the CBA Annual Report.
We are proud to be included in the global 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index which recognises our commitment to transparency in gender reporting and advancing women’s equality for our people, our customers and communities.
Gender equality – We are compliant with the Australian Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 for all of our relevant reporting entities for 2020.
We have submitted our 2021 reports to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency for the CBA submission group, and Colonial Services Pty Ltd. The CBA submission group includes Commonwealth Bank of Australia, BWA Group Services Pty Ltd (Bankwest), Commonwealth Securities Limited, and Commonwealth Insurance Limited.