Advancing gender equality

Over the last four years, Swiss Re has made progress in increasing gender balance at senior management level. To accelerate this trend, we stepped up our commitment in 2015 by joining forces with EDGE, Economic Dividends for Gender Equality (www.edge-cert.org), to pursue a rigorous gender equality assessment. Based on our commitment to assess ourselves and act on the findings, in 2015 we received the first-level EDGE certification for our Switzerland-based operations. We are using the insights we gained from EDGE to develop a global gender equality strategy, with a special focus on women in leadership.