Six years after the creation of WAAG (Women At AccorHotels
Generation), AccorHotels is giving fresh impetus to its international network
promoting diversity, which already has more than 14,000 members globally, with
the launch of 'RiiSE'.
Last night, AccorHotels unveiled the new identity of the Group's
international network to promote diversity, with a double "ii"
symbolizing the men and women who are committed to sharing knowledge,
solidarity and stereotypes.
Six years after its creation, the WAAG network is taking a new step
by improving the Group's commitment to gender equality with a new goal:
diversity, as a key factor in collective performance.
This action is based on the sharing of knowledge through a
mentoring program with 900 pairs in some 20 countries. This network is active
across five continents through the mobilization of strong regional communities.
in 2018, is the promotion of especially female talent to positions of
responsibility, and in the fight against all forms of discrimination.
Maud Bailly, Chief Digital Officer of AccorHotels, and John Ozinga,
CEO of AccorInvest, the Joint Ambassadors of the network, reaffirmed the RiiSE
ambition by emphasizing the extent to which "diversity is a powerful
driver of collective performance: it is important to involve men, women , and
to set up an example for managers at the highest level. Promoting gender
diversity is everyone's duty regardless of their own gender.
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Another of RiiSE's core beliefs is that no progress can be made in
terms of gender equality, fairness and diversity without the support of men,
who currently represent 42% of the network's members.
Furthermore, in line with the commitment made by Sébastien Bazin to
the United Nations in 2015 as part of the #HeForShe program, RiiSE will pursue
the Group’s objective of combatting pay inequalities and actively promote the
recognition of all talents. In this way, AccorHotels, which has already made
tangible progress in relation to equal pay and female representation, has set
itself the goal of having more than 35% female hotel managers by 2020 within
its network of more than 4,600 hotels.
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