The results have shown how far the Champions have come in making real, meaningful change over the seven-year period, including:
- 100% of Champion organisations’ board predicted to be gender-balanced by 2027
- Six organisations have completely closed their power gaps
- A further 22 organisations have achieved gender balance at board, executive leadership or management levels
- Of the 11 boards that have less than 40% representation of women, three have previously achieved gender balance and seven are within one appointment of doing so
- 15 more executive leadership teams have achieved gender balance (joining six which always had it), but women remain under-represented in 22 (just over half)
- Only five management teams that were not already gender-balanced when they started reporting have since achieved it
- Four organisations have closed their participation gaps
- Employees declaring diverse gender identities has grown by a factor of 8x
- The number of organisations with employees with diverse gender identities has grown by nearly 3x
- Progress on ethnic diversity has been slow, particularly at more senior levels but:
- Māori representation at board level has increased to 12%, up from 2% in 2020 and
- The number of employees declaring an Asian ethnicity has nearly doubled and exceeds the proportion of Asians in the working-age population, and
- The proportion of senior executives declaring more than one ethnicity had increased
You can download the full seven-year summary here and the 2024 Diversity and Impact Report here.
