Women & Orano
NADÈGE G. - What is Orano doing to foster female employment?
PHILIPPE KNOCHE - Team diversity and professional gender equality are key issues for Orano. This starts with gender equality in the workplace, which is enshrined in agreements signed with all of our labor representatives.
As such, we have reduced the average pay gap, for equivalent responsibility, between women and men to 1.1% versus a national average of 9% to the detriment of women.
Our aim is to promote women’s access to all management roles, the development of their careers and a positive work-life balance. And I personally want to continue to improve our track record in this area!
Nadège Gimenez
Training Engineering Officer at Training SSC South-East, Tricastin, Chemistry-Enrichment BU
MARION D. - What are your hiring targets for women?
PHILIPPE KNOCHE - Orano’s workforce is 23% women, 31% of whom are managers, while women accounted for 25% of permanent hires in 2022, 32% of these entered in management positions. We need to do better. We aim to increase this proportion to 31% of new hires and 39% managers. Like many industrial employers, we have a problem with the recruitment pool. We need to attract more women to the scientific and technical sectors, and this needs to start at primary school level. Young girls are reluctant to choose subjects regarded as “masculine” and, without doubt, have a tendency to underestimate themselves.
LUCINE S. - How can we attract more women to Orano?
PHILIPPE KNOCHE - By giving them meaning! To the generations of women entering the labor market, I say that Orano offers meaningful careers and that the world of industry is open to them. While men are still predominant in key positions, women are making their way at Orano and are determined to move the goalposts. You are an example of this! We encourage talent development through our “Femmes de Talents” [Women of Talent] program, which has provided support to over 270 female managers and engineers. Orano also regularly visits educational establishments from junior high school up to university level. In 2022, over 240 initiatives were carried out in these establishments in the form of job forums. The Group also conducts social media campaigns to raise awareness around the growing proportion of women in industry jobs, break down stereotypes and attract new female hires across all our business sectors at all levels of the organization.
Lucine Seeleuthner
Technical Shutdown Manager, Malvési, Chemistry-Enrichment BU
« To the generations of women entering the labor market, I say that Orano offers meaningful careers and that the world of industry is open to them. »