Diversity and equality for employees

Topdanmark wants to be a diverse workplace where diversity is accepted and used as a strength. Therefore, we work to maintain and develop openness in our company culture to counter any form of discrimination, and for all employees to have equal opportunities.

Topdanmark wants to be a diverse workplace where diversity is accepted and used as a strength. Therefore, we work to maintain and develop openness in our company culture to counter any form of discrimination, and for all employees to have equal opportunities.

There are several reasons why it is important to secure a diverse and non-discriminating culture. We want to both ensure that our employees thrive and are not exposed to any form of abusive and unacceptable behaviour. Moreover, numerous Danish and foreign surveys show that companies with a diverse composition of people create more growth and more innovation.




Our overall approach

Diversity means many things. For us, however, an important focus is that no distinction is made in employment based on age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or health.

At the same time, it also means a focus on equal pay for equal work. It is a principle and a policy that remuneration depends solely on criteria such as experience, competence, effort, result, and the significance of the position.

To comply with our equal pay policy, we have implemented a job title and job position structure that ensures that people in the same position are employed under the same conditions. That way, we get consistency and ensure that the conditions are not about the person or the gender.




Balanced gender distribution among managers

We want the management team to be represented by the best qualified people, but we also want balance in the gender distribution. However, we want to challenge the binary gender understanding, and therefore we have set a goal that does not speak in favour of promoting one gender, but instead ensures a maximum limit for the representation of one gender. Thus, we speak to both current and future employees who do not profess to one of the two traditional genders, and diversity is truly seen as a strength in Topdanmark.

Our concrete objective for 2025 is a maximum of 60% of one gender at management levels 1 and 2 in 2025. However, due to new Danish law on diversity and the underrepresented gender in management, which have a binary understanding of gender, Topdanmark has also made the target of "minimum 40% of one gender (men/women) in management level 1&2. 




Diversity in Board of Directors

At Topdanmark we also have a target on diversity in Board of Directors. Due to dansih law, which works from a binary undersatndig of gender, we have set the following target for the board: "minimum 2 of each gender within the AGM elected members of Board of Directors". 

Currently, we have 2 AGM elected women and 4 AGM elected men in the borad of directors. All in all, we have 4 women and 5 men in our Board of Directors.   




Pernille Fogh Christensen
Senior Sustainability Consultant
Marie Uldall Thomsen
Sustainability Consultant