State companies will take care of parity. MAP boss: We will be strict

We will strictly demand from state -owned companies to collect data on women's situation in their structures and how parity is shaped – stressed by the minister of state assets Jakub Jaworowski on Wednesday. He added that in his ministry the wage gap between men and women is 3 percent.

Jaworowski reminded on Wednesday at the EFNI Spring 2025 conference that at the beginning of March his ministry implemented guidelines for companies with the participation of the State Treasury regarding the support of women's professional development. These recommendations include about 50 companies and assume, among others, that the management boards of companies have for management purposes – as the minister said at the time – entered “goals related to supporting the professional development of women”.

The head of the maps said at the conference that the developed guidelines were widely consulted. “At the moment a team is appointed in the ministry that implements them,” he said. He explained that actions to support women's professional development should be carried out on three levels.

“The first concerns the fact that we will strictly demand from companies to (…) collect data about women's situation in companies, as this equality is formed and and therefore also had certain goals (…) at the moment it is happening” – he said.

The second – as he explained – concerns the “modern HR area, which will be blind on gender and will be directed to competence.” In the opinion of the minister, this is to equalize women's chances in companies with the participation of the Treasury. “The third pillar we implement concerns family -friendly jobs” – he added.

“He undertakes that we will take the next steps (…) I am convinced that with time, in this way, we will come to great changes,” the minister declared.

He also informed that in the ministry he managed in 2023 there were 16 women in managerial positions, i.e. 37 percent. “Today, these women are 20, which is 46 percent. We also managed to reduce the pay gap, which was – if I remember correctly – 5.5 percent, now it is 3 percent.” – he said.

At the beginning of March, the head of the map reported that the guidelines introduced by the ministry were developed in cooperation with about 40 NGOs, and the first work in this matter started in July last year. In February this year. A team for equal treatment was established, which, based on the recommendations received by non -governmental organizations and comments on the part of State Treasury companies, developed guidelines regarding the support of women's professional development and practical tips on the implementation of the EU Directive “Woman on Boards”.

The guidelines are directed to companies listed on the WSE and legally defined large enterprises. The head of the maps asked in March how many companies will concern new recommendations on women. He replied that there are about 50 of them. Women on the boards of these companies constitute several percent, and in supervisory boards it is nearly 30 percent.

The Ministry of Justice is working on a bill to implement the solutions of the “Woman on Boards” directive. It assumes, among others The obligation to introduce sex balance in the bodies of larger listed companies. Pursuant to it, in the bodies of companies, the percentage of people less represented sex is to be between 33 and 49 percent.

The project is to cover companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, based in Poland, employing at least 250 people and having an annual turnover of over 50 million euros or a total annual balance of over EUR 43 million. (PAP)

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