International Women's Day2021

For decades now, Recruit Group has been engaged in promoting equal opportunities throughout all our business operations. Long before the Equal Employment Opportunity Law was enacted in Japan, we had already been exploring new work styles by launching Travail, a recruiting magazine specializing in women's employment and career moves, and more recently, Jitan JOB for people with time constraints and ZIP WORK, which focuses on jobs that require extensive professional expertise.

In addition, our group companies around the world work toward closing the opportunity gaps through regularly publishing research reports on their respective progress in terms of achieving workplace diversity as well as reviewing the condition of wage gaps.

Today, women hold 40.2% of Recruit Group's management positions across the 60+ countries in which we operate. (See chart below)

However, this level of female representation in managerial roles is still not sufficient considering that roughly 50% of our employees are female, and further progress is essential.

We are also working to promote diversity within our Board of Directors by appointing individuals of different nationalities and backgrounds, while incorporating their various perspectives into our management work. For example, in June 2020, we appointed a female director after recognizing a lack of gender diversity.

Here at Recruit Group, we will continue to contribute to the realization of universal gender equality by bringing more diverse opportunities for lives worldwide.

^*1 International Labour Organization: The rising tide of non-standard employment
^*2 Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training: The Impact of Coronavirus on employment and unemployment

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