Baxter Honored as a 2019 “Top Company for Executive Women” by the National Association for Female Executives
March 05 2019 - 9:15AM
Business Wire
From board representation to pay equity,
company promotes an ongoing commitment to advance women in
leadership
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a leading global medical
products company, announced today that it has been named one of the
2019 NAFE Top Companies for Executive Women by the National
Association for Female Executives (NAFE). This recognition
highlights the company’s efforts to advance women in leadership and
foster an inclusive and diverse culture.
“Driving initiatives that advance women in their careers is a
high priority for me personally, and is critical to our business
success,” said José (Joe) E. Almeida, chairman and chief executive
officer. “We are honored to be recognized by NAFE as a top company
for executive women, and will continue to prioritize our efforts to
support the recruitment, retention and advancement of women at
Baxter, as well as ensure strong representation on our board of
directors.”
The NAFE list recognizes U.S. companies with an emphasis on best
practices that demonstrate effectiveness in moving women to senior
positions, including mentorship and sponsorship programs,
employee-resource groups and leadership development training. The
recognition also highlights company benefits, including workplace
flexibility, company culture and CEO involvement in these efforts
and initiatives.
Baxter has a comprehensive approach to supporting women and
underrepresented minorities at all levels of the company. Since
July 2017, all new appointments to the company’s board of directors
were women, including the addition of two new female directors in
February. These appointments are consistent with Baxter’s
commitment to the diversification of its board, which is critical
to helping the company deliver sustainable top-quartile performance
for its stakeholders.
Baxter also completed a pay equity study last year with an
independent firm that found no significant pay differences among
men, women and ethnic minorities. The study, which included
Baxter’s U.S. salaried workforce, reinforced the company’s
equitable compensation practices -- regardless of gender or
ethnicity.
The company supports a wide range of initiatives geared towards
the recruitment, retention and advancement of women. These include
eight employee-led Business Resource Groups (BRGs), one of which is
the Baxter Women Leaders BRG – a global community that encourages
and empowers women to increase engagement and achieve career goals.
Employee benefits like workplace flexibility help enable employees
to succeed, both at home and in the workplace. Additionally, the
company’s Gender IQ leadership development program brings
senior-level men and women together to better understand gender
differences and biases that arise in the workplace, and how to
leverage those differences to work together more effectively.
“Not only are we passionate about advancing women in leadership
roles today, but we are also developing a pipeline of talented
women across the organization to serve as our future leaders,” said
Jeanne Mason, senior vice president, Human Resources. “Our
equitable pay practices reinforce our steadfast commitment to
attracting and retaining diverse employees interested in growing
their careers at Baxter.”
Diverse, high-performing teams boost innovation, accelerate
Baxter’s transformation and fuel its efforts to be recognized
globally as a Best Place to Work. Baxter is honored to have also
been recognized for its commitment to inclusion and diversity on
Working Mother’s ‘100 Best Companies’ list, Forbes’ ‘America’s Best
Employers for Diversity’ and ‘America’s Best Employers’ lists, as
well as the Diversity Best Practices Inclusion Index of U.S.
companies. The company has consistently received a top score of 100
percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate
Equality Index (CEI), and has been honored by Equal Opportunity
Publications as a ‘Top 50 Employer of Women Engineers’ and a ‘Top
50 Employer in STEM Workforce Diversity,’ among numerous other
regional and country-specific recognitions across the globe.
The NAFE Top Companies for Executive Women, released today, will
be featured in the April/May issue of Working Mother magazine. For
more information on Baxter’s global inclusion and diversity
efforts, please visit
https://www.baxter.com/careers/inclusion-diversity.
About Baxter
Every day, millions of patients and caregivers rely on Baxter’s
leading portfolio of critical care, nutrition, renal, hospital and
surgical products. For more than 85 years, we’ve been
operating at the critical intersection where innovations that save
and sustain lives meet the healthcare providers that make it
happen. With products, technologies and therapies available in
more than 100 countries, Baxter’s employees worldwide are now
building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs
to advance the next generation of transformative healthcare
innovations. To learn more, visit www.baxter.com and
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Baxter is a registered trademark of Baxter International
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