SkyCity is proud to announce it has signed up to 40:40 Vision, pledging a commitment to achieve gender balance across
its executive leadership by 2023.
40:40 Vision is an investor and business-lead initiative to achieve 40% women, 40% men and 20% any gender across the
executive leadership teams of all ASX200 companies by 2030.
SkyCity Entertainment Group Chief People and Culture Officer Claire Walker says around half of SkyCity’s workforce is
women.
“Over the past 12 months SkyCity has constantly challenged itself to increase female representation, particularly in
senior leadership roles and has maintained a gender balance across the top four levels of the organisation.
“This has been driven by initiatives which support the development of our female talent pipeline and by ensuring strong
female candidates are identified in the recruitment process for all executive roles and any systemic bias in
recruitment, development and promotion processes are removed.
“SkyCity is also working to understand intersectionality and its impact on women from ethnic minorities, starting by
measuring and understanding our ethnic pay gap,” says Walker.
Chief Executive Michael Ahearne says he is committed to building the capability of SkyCity’s leaders in understanding
and leveraging diversity of thought.
“There is clear evidence that having women in leadership roles is not only fairer but leads to better profits, and
better corporate governance.
“We’ve taken the 40:40 Vision pledge and we’re calling on Australasia’s biggest companies to do the same, drive real
change and reap the benefits of having fairer, more inclusive workplaces and stronger business performance,” says
Ahearne.
SkyCity is also a member of Women in Gaming and Hospitality Australasia, Champions for Change New Zealand, and Global
Women NZ.
In 2020 SkyCity was awarded the Gender tick for the second year in a row in recognition of its commitment to and ongoing
work in providing an equitable workplace for all employees.