Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
“By the hiring choices we make and through development, sponsorship, allyship, and ensuring inclusivity, we have the ability to change the trajectory of someone’s life.”
Our five Global Employee Resource Groups, comprising over a 100 local ERG chapters across all countries, serve as a dynamic platform for driving our cultural transformation. Empowering employees to lead change, they champion diversity, foster inclusion, offer support, and amplify voices within the organization.
Each ERG’s first global webcast, co-hosted by an Executive sponsor, raised awareness and inspired connection among ~ 20,000 Sanofians. We highlighted real stories from people all over the world so people could see themselves in our global campaigns.
Engaging with five diversity strands
The Global ERGs engage Sanofians with the DE&I strategy we co-created to turn our collective differences into competitive advantage. We focus our efforts on five diversity strands: Gender, Culture and Origins, LGBTQ+, Disability, and Generations.
Gender
We’re dedicated to achieving gender balance. That’s why we introduced gender-neutral paid parental leave in 2022, offering 14 weeks of paid parental leave to all employees globally, regardless of gender or family composition. As of December 2023, over 5,000 employees have benefited from this leave (43% men, up 2% compared with 2022), and we’re encouraging more men to take their full leave.
We used data-driven tools to transform our hiring and development practices. With a gender pay gap of less than 5% in most of our countries, and with women globally making up 49% of our workforce, 44.1% of our senior leaders, and 40% of our executives, it’s no wonder we’re ranked in the top 25 companies globally for gender equality by Equileap.
43%of people using parental leave are men
Pay gap is less than 5% in most Sanofi countries
“The entire experience of being at the Paralympics was life changing for me.”
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