Gender Equality Plan · Our commitment to an inclusive workplace

A safe, equitable
and inclusive workplace.

Energy Web is committed to providing a safe, equitable and inclusive working environment for people of all genders. We achieve this by embedding gender-sensitive and diversity-promotion policies in both company operations and product development, and by ensuring ongoing team awareness-raising and training.

Our commitments What we do
How we get there

Equality by design,
not by exception.

Gender equality is not a one-off statement. It is built into how we operate, what we build, and how our team learns, together forming a workplace culture that is inclusive and safe for everyone.

Operations & product
Gender-sensitive policies
Diversity-promotion and gender-sensitive policies are embedded in both company operations and product development, so equality is a design principle rather than an afterthought.
Culture
Ongoing awareness-raising
Continuous team awareness-raising keeps unconscious bias, dignity at work, and inclusive practice front of mind for every team member.
Capability
Training for everyone
Gender equality training is provided to all team members, turning shared commitments into everyday, practised behaviour across the organisation.
Our commitments

What we hold ourselves to.

Five commitments guide how we protect and promote gender equality across every part of Energy Web, from the language we use to the international goals we align with.

Commitment 01
Inclusive, gender-sensitive language.
Using inclusive and gender-sensitive language across all internal and external company communication.
Commitment 02
Dignity at work, understood and practised.
Ensuring unconscious-bias awareness and dignity at work are understood and practised by all team members.
Commitment 03
Support through parental leave.
Supporting team members during parental leave and upon their return from leave.
Commitment 04
Effective delivery of the GEP.
Ensuring effective implementation of the Gender Equality Plan (GEP), with dedicated internal resources and gender-equality expertise relevant to company size.
Commitment 05
Aligned with the UN SDGs.
Aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 5 on gender equality and SDG 7 on affordable, sustainable energy for all.
Our actions

Commitments,
put into practice.

These are the concrete measures we take to make the workplace culture inclusive and safe for people of all genders, and to hold ourselves accountable over time.

Action 01
Gender-proofed recruitment & promotion.
Gender-proofing and sensitising recruitment and promotional activities, striving for gender parity at both team and management level.
Action 02
Evidence-based awareness-raising.
Implementing evidence-based awareness-raising on gender equality, and integrating and sharing this plan with all team members through the internal policy handbook and onboarding.
Action 03
Training for all team members.
Providing gender equality training for every team member, so shared principles become everyday practice.
Action 04
Zero tolerance for gender-based violence.
Zero tolerance for gender-based violence, including sexual harassment and offensive statements, with due process set out in the internal policy handbook.
Action 05
Transparent, disaggregated data.
Collecting and publishing relevant disaggregated data on the sex and/or gender of all team members.
Action 06
Parental leave & flexible working.
Parental-leave policies and flexible working arrangements support caring responsibilities, with health insurance covered during any unpaid leave and paid leave regulated by law; flexible hours can be negotiated individually.
Global alignment

Anchored in the
UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Our gender-equality work supports two goals in particular, connecting an inclusive workplace to a fairer, cleaner energy future for all.

5Goal
SDG 5
Gender equality
Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls in all their diversity, reflected in how we recruit, promote, and support our team.
7Goal
SDG 7
Affordable & clean energy
Ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all, the mission our inclusive team works towards every day.