Gender

Women around the world are transforming society. Here are just two examples:

Women control 32% of the world's wealth and are increasing their wealth faster than before - adding $5 trillion to the wealth pool globally every year (Boston Consulting Group: Managing the Next Decade of Women's Wealth, April 09, 2020)
85% of women manage day-to-day expenses equally or more than their partners / spouses (UBS Investor Watch Global Insights / 2019 Volume 1)

At UBS, increasing our gender diversity is a strategic priority. We want to support and enable more women to build long and satisfying careers here, and we're especially working to increase the representation of women at senior management levels. Here we take a multi-pronged approach, examining the process, culture and organization design elements around hiring, promoting and retaining women at all levels and we have aspirations to grow our senior representation of women to 30% by 2025 across the firm.

For country-specific information, see the UK Gender & Ethnicity Pay Gap Report (PDF, 278 KB) , or the French gender equality index for the latest available year of reference.

Women in Economics

In partnership with the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Women in Economics is a global initiative focusing on economists who are making a major impact in their fields. With fresh thinking and diverse perspectives, they are paving the way to influence the current and next generation of leaders and economists.

International Women’s Day (IWD)

At UBS, we celebrate International Women’s Day each year, and strongly believe that a gender diverse world is a better world. Explore what we’re doing to actively support women and to make a change for the better. #choosetochallenge

Discover the ways that we #choosetochallenge

The funding gap: Investors and female entrepreneurs

Female entrepreneurs, globally, receive less funding than their male counterparts. This results in a lack of equal opportunities to innovate and build successful companies. We look here at the reasons behind this and illustrate how to narrow the funding gap.

Read the Report

Women’s health

Menopause

Menopause can be a time of great change and we want to support our employees during this transition. Our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers menopause support globally.

In the UK, we recently launched a Menopause clinic delivered by specialist GPs who offer the opportunity to discuss concerns in detail. These appointments can be to discuss anything from symptoms to managing menopause and treatment options.

We run quarterly workshops aimed at demystifying the transition, hormones, how to support yourself and medical and non-medical treatment.

Support groups also arrange regular check-ins to share experiences and stories with others who have similar experiences.

Recognition & commitment

Women in Finance Charter - UBS signed up to the UK Women in Finance Charter in 2018 as the aims of the charter mirror our global strategy for gender progress. This is part of a broader cultural transformation agenda at UBS. We first set aspirations to increase our senior representation of women to 25% by spring 2020, which we are proud to have met in the UK. To build on this progress, we have set new aspirations to grow our representation of women at Director level and above to 30% by 2025.

As of August 2023, we have 28.6% female representation in senior management globally, and in the UK, we have reached 29.3% for August. We believe we are on track to meet our Charter target of 30.0% ahead of our deadline of 2025 in the UK.

UBS is committed to hiring, retaining, and promoting more women at all levels across the firm, and this is reflected directly in our strategic plan to "hire, develop, create belonging and accountability” and in turn enable us to hire more, promote more and retain more women, focusing particularly on our senior levels. In our 2015 Group Annual Report, we first publicly committed to increasing the ratio of women in management roles, and since then UBS continues to focus on this aspiration globally. UBS has embedded management accountability for supporting this goal and continues to develop career support, HR processes and technology solutions to help better attract, develop, and retain women at all stages of their careers.

Other awards & recognition:

Equal Salary Certification: UBS in Switzerland, the UK, the US, Hong Kong and Singapore earned their Equal Salary Certification in 2020 and 2021 after an external audit by PWC investigated our equal pay practices.
Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (Bloomberg 2016-2021)
Best Returner Program (Working Families, 2020)

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Women around the world are transforming society. Here are just two examples:

Discover the ways that we #choosetochallenge

The funding gap: Investors and female entrepreneurs

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