In November 2022, Sodexo received the prize from the National Assembly for the most advanced company in terms of the feminization of management bodies among the 120 largest French companies. In particular, the company applies careful monitoring to recruitment, continually aiming
60%
Women on Board of Directors
41%
Women on Management Committee
41%
Women among senior managers
60%
2025 target: women on Board of Directors (2025)
40%
2025 target: women among staff (2025)
29%
2025 target: women on Management Committee (2025)
43%
2025 target: women in senior management (2025)
4 years
Consecutive years in Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index
Sodexo, a global Quality of Life Services company, pursues gender equality/diversity as a longstanding corporate priority ('in Sodexo's DNA'), applying monitoring to recruitment and diversity in candidate pools rather than acting purely from legal constraint.
Objectifs
2025 objective: women to represent at least 40% of staff, 60% of the board of directors, 29% of the management committee and 43% of senior management.
Activités
Recruitment monitoring and CV panels reflecting workforce diversity; internal mentoring networks for women employees.
Résultats
As of the report, women hold 60% of Board of Directors seats, 41% of Management Committee seats and 41% of senior management positions; Sodexo has been included in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for 4 consecutive years and received a French National Assembly prize (Nov 2022) as the most advanced of the 120 largest French companies on feminisation of management bodies.
Mise en œuvre
Coût indicatif
Medium (€50k–€500k) — No budget disclosed; treated as medium cost given company-wide recruitment monitoring and mentoring infrastructure across a large multinational.
Délai jusqu’aux résultats
Long (> 3 years) — Long-running, embedded corporate practice with a formal 2025 target horizon.
Personnel et compétences
Internal mentoring network for women employees, Recruitment teams applying diversity monitoring to candidate panels