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Every other manager in Nykredit must be a woman: "A long haul"

With its new objective, Nykredit aims to have 45 per cent female managers by 2030. In the long term, this ambition should lead to half of the bank's managers being women.

30. Dec 2022
1 min
English / Dansk

In future, more women will take the helm at Nykredit.

That is the statement posted by the bank's CEO, Michael Rasmussen, on LinkedIn.

Today, 33 per cent of the bank's managers are women. And, for the moment, Nykredit has set the objective that the share of female managers is to reach 45 per cent by 2030.

"This is a new initiative, and, in the long term, it will mean that we will have 50% female and 50% male managers," Michael Rasmussen writes in his post.

"If there is one thing we have learnt in our preliminary work on increasing diversity, it is that there are no easy solutions."
- Michael Rasmussen, CEO of Nykredit

It requires, among other things, that every other manager recruited by the bank from now on must be a woman, says the CEO, while also announcing new initiatives across the group in the time to come.

"It will be a long haul before we succeed. "If there is one thing we have learnt in our preliminary work on increasing diversity, it is that there are no easy solutions." But we believe that when we, across all of Nykredit, dare to commit to the target for women in leadership that we have set today, it will make a difference. Because in this context, too, we will only succeed if we do it together," Michael Rasmussen writes.

Nykredit is not the only bank to have set targets for the number of managerial positions to be held by women. Sydbank, for instance, previously announced that, by 2025, the bank intends to have 35 per cent women among its managers.

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