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Beon, CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy

  • 1,000 - 50,000 employees

Gender Equality at Beon, CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy

We work hard to ensure our organisation is inclusive and diverse. This means everyone can feel equally valued, respected and bring their full self to work. To us, inclusion and diversity is about respecting the unique needs, perspectives and potential of everyone that’s a part of our team. In many ways, our people reflect the communities we operate in.

We create gender equality and diverse communities by empowering female career advancement.   Developing the next generation of female leaders and seeing more women take up leadership positions is vital. So we've set gender targets to ensure continuous improvement in representation of both women in leadership and women in each business unit.   In addition, we  work hard to ensure the process of paying and promotion is both fair and unbiased.

We are proud to be a WORK180 endorsed employer for women. Our commitment to helping all women thrive in the workplace includes initiatives such as our Women in Power network, Women in Engineering scholarships, Women studying Pre-Apprenticeships in Electrotechnology scholarships, a generous parental leave policy, embedded flexible working options and our extensive health and wellbeing program.

We’re investing for the future — ensuring diversity in field and trade roles; through the provision of apprenticeships, graduates and scholarship programs to support both.  Our Pre-apprenticeship scholarship program for women provides up to $2,000 in financial support to women undertaking a certificate II in electrotechnology course and the recipients are put on the candidate list for our apprenticeship program.  Since 2017, our University Scholarship program to support women studying electrical engineering has been providing recipients $10,000 in financial support a year over 3 years, 12 weeks of paid vacation work, a business mentor and inclusion as a shortlisted candidate for our graduate intake.

Our Women in Power network was also formed in 2017 and is a group of passionate women and men in the business who are working together to achieve our vision of “connecting women”. The network plans a calendar of events through the year such as International Women’s Day events, development sessions, volunteering and networking opportunities focused on development and retention of women in our business.

By the numbers

90% of our people state in their workgroup people treat each other with fairness, respect and consideration.

85% of our people feel the business encourages and promotes diversity of backgrounds, talents and perspectives.

83% of our people are satisfied with the flexibility of work arrangements.

0% pay gap in like-for-like roles.