Women in Finance Charter
Empowering women in financial services
Diversity is celebrated, valued, and recognised as a key driver of our success and innovation at BW – creating benefits for both our people and our clients.
We’re committed to cultivating an even more inclusive culture, to help power this we are delighted to now be a signatory of HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter; a government-led initiative to improve gender diversity across the financial services industry.
As signatories, we have pledged to:
- appointing gender champions within the senior executive team who are responsible and accountable for gender diversity and inclusion.
- setting internal diversity targets for our senior management team;
- publicly reporting on our progress each year against these targets; and
- an intention to ensure that the renumeration of the senior executive team is based on the achievement of our gender diversity targets.
Our aim is for 35% of our senior executive team to be female by 1 June 2029.
Progressing our Gender Action Plan
Our target is underpinned by our Gender Action Plan, which drives and measures the success of the many programmes and initiatives we are undertaking to make our business more gender diverse. You can read more about our Gender Action Plan in our latest Gender Pay Gap Report.
In our second year as a signatory to the Women in Finance Charter, female representation within our senior executive team remained at 28% as of 1 June 2026.
Our gender champion
"Advancing women into senior positions is not only the right thing to do but also strengthens our leadership team with diverse viewpoints. Using gender targeted initiatives to accelerate action across the firm benefits everyone, by supporting a thriving and progressive work environment"
Find out more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Barnett Waddingham.
