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.
Our Group Diversity and Inclusion strategy aims to foster an inclusive culture where our people have a sense of connection and belonging. It has three key pillars:
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.
2020 Financial Year: Key Diversity Metrics
As at 30 June 2020:
As self-nominated in the Group’s FY2020 annual people and culture survey in October 2019:
Refer to our 2020 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 2020 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 our relevant reporting entities, namely: Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Colonial Services Pty Ltd, Commonwealth Securities Limited, and BWA Group Services Pty Ltd.