Action on equality

We continue to encourage more women into engineering through initiatives including recruitment campaigns, career encouragement and greater flexibility following parental leave. Specific initiatives in our offices during 2020 included:

GirlCode is a non-profit organisation that aims to empower girls through technology
GirlCode is a non-profit organisation that aims to empower girls through technology
  • Royal HaskoningDHV Southern Africa sponsored the first virtual GirlCode Hackathon 2020. The non-stop coding event focused on building solutions to overcome challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. GirlCode is a non-profit organisation aiming to empower girls through technology. It is an important initiative as South Africa’s small pool of female STEM talent is considered to be holding back the country’s technology sector, which in turn restricts economic growth. Within our offices in Southern Africa, we encourage open conversations around diversity, inclusion and representation and aim to be mindful of stereotyping and unconscious bias.

  • On behalf of HaskoningDHV Vietnam, Managing Director Bas van Dijk signed the Statement of Support for the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) developed by the UN Global Compact and UN Women. The seven principles are aimed at promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in businesses and communities.

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LinkedIn On behalf of HaskoningDHV Vietnam, Managing Director Bas van Dijk signed the Statement of Support for the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) developed by the UN Global Compact and UN Women.

  • Our first mentorship programme for female employees in the United Kingdom launches early in 2021. It strives to reduce our Gender Pay Gap and ensure representation of female colleagues is as equal as possible at all levels. We hope to replicate this programme in other countries where imbalances exist.

  • LinkedIn International woman in Engineering Day:

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Gender diversity data in the Netherlands

We have tracked our progress on gender diversity for the past four years in the Netherlands. Currently 26% of our employees in the Netherlands are female. 

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Our employees gender ratio

In the tables below we share more details on our gender diversity in the Netherlands.:

Table Gender diversity Male vs Female in the Netherlands

Male vs Female

Headcount

Male

2280

Female

796

Total

3076

Table Gender diversity Executive Board 

Executive Board

Headcount

Male

2

Erik Oostwegel

1

Jasper de Wit

1

Total

2

Table Gender diversity (Sub)Top in the Netherlands

(Sub)Top

Male

Female

Total

Sub top

709

115

824

Top

219

29

248

Total

928

144

1072

Table Gender diversity Supervisory Board

Supervisory Board

Headcount

Percentage

Male

3

60%

Daan Sperling

  

Peter Blauwhoff

  

Tjalling Tiemstra

  

Female

2

40%

Angelique Paulussen - Hoogakker

  

Francine Roelofsen - van Dierendonck

  

Total

5

100%