Shanghai, March 8, 2024 (ots/PRNewswire) – Honored on the occasion of International Women’s Day 2024 Shanghai Electric (SEHK:2727, SSE:601727) the contributions of women in the industrial and energy equipment sectors over the past year and highlights initiatives to protect Rightto Life care and to Continuing education to create a more inclusive workplace for its 15,000 female employees, who make up 20% of the workforce.
Innovation and creativity are crucial in the manufacturing industry. According to HR World research data, women make up about a third of the manufacturing workforce, from assembly line workers to corporate executives. With their strong skills in mechanical research, their impressive skills in human-machine interaction, and their willingness to work hard and learn as much as possible, women have proven to be excellent collaborators in the machinery industry. At Shanghai Electric, women make up 20% of the total workforce, with female engineers making up 20.39% of all engineers and female managers making up 27% of all managers.
Over the last 12 months, the company has revised collective bargaining agreements to benefit the female workforce, shared stories about overcoming challenges faced by those working abroad, organized equality and empowerment workshops, and implemented women-led technical innovations through the Establishment of 14 innovation studios supported. This paved the way for the extraordinary development of around 1,200 female engineers in the industry.
Shanghai Electric is committed to creating an equal, diverse and inclusive workplace for female employees and implements its practice of inspiring inclusion with actions:
- Protection of rights: Optimization of collective agreement conditions to improve rights and benefits such as maternity protection, rest, vacation and convalescence; Preventing and ending harassment of female employees in the workplace; Ensuring radiation protection for pregnant workers; and ensuring fair employment opportunities before the statutory retirement age. In 2023, Shanghai Electric unions organized ten discussion and study sessions on contracts protecting special rights for female workers.
- Offers at and outside of work: Provision of rest rooms for women in the period before pregnancy, during pregnancy and during breastfeeding; Offering rights-preserving lectures and stress-reduction activities; promoting hobbies through reading activities; Organizing family visits and children’s summer camps to reduce pressure on the family.
- Promoting skills and professional abilities: Establishment of 14 technical studios, including six for female employees, to enable technical innovation, problem solving and technical exchange on important, current and difficult projects related to the company’s production and operations. National flagship worker Liu The innovation studios for female employees serve as talent centers that effectively improve the core competencies of top female talents, set a learning benchmark for technical skills and innovation, and promote comprehensive improvement in the enthusiasm and technical level of female employees, thereby optimizing the structure of high-quality professionals and improving the qualifications of female employees workforce is continuously improved.
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Jin Shen,
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Email: shenjin@shanghai-electric.com