Food and facilities management company Sodexo has been recognised as ‘one of the 2019 Best Companies for Multicultural Women’ for 11 consecutive years by Working Mother.
The ‘Working Mother Best Companies for Multicultural Women’ application is open to companies that have at least 500 US employees, and winners are selected based on their hiring; attrition and promotion rates; recruitment, retention and advancement programmes; as well as company culture. Sodexo attributes the award to its “best practices in hiring, retaining and promoting women of colour”.
“We are honoured to be recognised yet again by Working Mother, for our commitment to developing and advancing multicultural women at Sodexo,” commented Rohini Anand, PhD, SVP, Corporate Responsibility & Global Chief Diversity Officer of Sodexo. “Although there’s still work to be done, we continue to see improvements in representation within leadership roles.”
SUCCESSFUL INITIATIVES
Currently, 36.5% of Sodexo executives are female, and 9.6% of them are ‘women of colour’, according to the company. Thanks to the company’s global ‘Women of Color Initiative’, which promotes the development, engagement and visibility of high-potential women of colour, the percentage of minority women in executive positions at Sodexo is “expected to grow”, says the company.
Sodexo is consistently recognised for its commitment to diversity and inclusion. In January, it was recognised on Bloomberg’s ‘2019 Gender Equality Index’ and FORTUNE’S 2019 list of the ‘World’s Most Admired Companies’. In 2018, it was also ranked in the top 10 of DiversityInc magazine’s ‘Top 50 Companies for Diversity’ list for the 9th consecutive year, as well as inducted into DiversityInc’s ‘Top 50 Hall of Fame’.
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