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Looking Good and Feeling Good

Employees donated new or up-to-date and lightly-worn business attire, including interview-ready suits, blouses, and new or unworn shoes to benefit Dress for Success, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the economic independence of disadvantaged women.
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Funds to Fight Famine

For the 5th year in a row, BNP Paribas employees ran the Luxembourg Marathon to raise money for the non-governmental organization SOS Village d’Enfants. The bank pledged a certain donation per employee to cross the finish line, motivating some 200 staff members to get into shape to run the 42-km race.
SOS Village d’Enfants, a Luxembourg [...]

The 2nd Women and Leadership conference in Bahrain

The 2nd Women and Leadership conference will take place on January 17th, 2010 in Bahrain. BNP Paribas, present across five Gulf countries (Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia), organizes this event in partnership with United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) for the second consecutive year.

This conference is aimed at recognizing the [...]

Survey: female executives not so confident about their career

The French Institute LH2 conducted for a first time, a nation-wide survey, interviewing female executives from 43 different professional networks in France.
BNP Paribas enthusiastically took part in the survey, with the active participation of Mix City (a club of the female senior executives of the Group) and ADC (the association of executives directors of the [...]

Objectified Remuneration Promoting Equality

When BNP Paribas Assurance signed in Decenber 2007 a second agreement on gender equality in the workplace, the issue became a priority in s Human Resources policy.
Consequently, throughout 2008 the Human Resources Department implemented an ambitious action plan , part of which focused specifically on equal pay.
It is within this context that the [...]

TEB's Educated Girls on stage

Türk Ekonomi Bankası (TEB), BNP Paribas’ strategic partner in Turkey, received 1500 guests for TEB Innovation Summit TEB, on Monday, April 14th at the Maslak TIM Center in Istanbul. The Summit opened with a concert of the TEB Band.
The band is composed of girls participating in TEB’s social responsibility program, called “Educated Girls”.
“TEB’s Educated Girls” [...]

Promoting gender equality by supporting girls’ access to education

As part of its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) policy, BNP Paribas Assurance has recently formalised its commitment to diversity (the fight against all forms of discrimination together with the promotion of equal opportunities) by disseminating to all its employees and associates a document entitled “Our Commitment to Diversity“.
 
The objective is to apply these principles in [...]

Fighting against discrimination at work

BNP Paribas is the only bank among the first seven companies to  obtain the “Diversity” label awarded by Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR) for initiatives that foster non-discrimination at work.
AFNOR is a French state-authorised organisation  which  specializes in standardisation and certification of companies in line with the international norms in  management systems, products, services and [...]

Towards gender equality at work

BNP Paribas Assurance has been awarded the Equality at Work label. The label is awarded for initiatives to encourage equal opportunities and equal remuneration between men and women in the workplace. Such initiatives include training for management, parental leave for education, increase in paternity leave to 2 calendar weeks on full salary, support for maternity [...]