Promotion of the Active Participation of Women

SuMi TRUST Group promotes the placement of the right person in the right position in accordance with abilities so that each individual can make the most of their abilities. Employees are promoted to managerial positions based on their capabilites without regard for gender.

We assign its employees to a variety of different positions so that they can take on new challenges and widen their fields of expertise. Through training programs, transfers, and reassignments, we provide all employees with opportunities for growth.

SuMi TRUST Bank set above-mentioned goals as an Employers Action Plan based on the Act on Promotion of Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace, with the aim of increasing the number of women in decision-making lines.

At the same time, the bank must create an environment where its employees, regardless of sex, can strike a balance between their careers and household duties, including childcare. Therefore, the bank set goals to lift an average of childcare leaves, etc. taken by male employees to 30 days or more and an average of paid leaves taken by its employees in a year to 21 days or more as part of efforts to improve employment practices.

SuMi TRUST Bank conducts detailed training sessions for women at turning points in their careers meant to provide them with opportunities to think about their own career development and build networks. Based on lectures by external speakers and senior employees, we offer career design training for employees in their sixth year of employment to think about their mid-and long-term careers autonomously. We also provide opportunities for female employees, whose careers are often susceptible to life events, to share their concerns and design their careers as part of their life planning. In addition, a leadership training course with women directors as lecturers was held for Course A employees who are near promotion to section manager. We are supporting employee growth by helping to eliminate concerns and pressure associated with becoming a manager so that they can develop their own image of a career in management and aim for further improvement.

SuMi TRUST Bank is working on various initiatives that aim to promote women to management positions by building a pipeline of talents for a systematic growth in each business, providing seminars for female managers and training programs for self-directed career development, etc.

We also introduced a system where officers support next-generation female officers in 2021, Under this system, active officers use their wide-ranging experience, broad-based knowledge, and wide range of personal contacts to help female candidates for executive positions accumulate various experiences and promote the latter’s growth through a mentorship program.

Furthermore, we give female employees chances to broaden their sphere of activities and chances to engage in diverse business operations. We give them growth opportunities not only through training but also through internal transfers, reassignments and the delegation of jobs.

※Female ratio is shown in parentheses ① includes executive officers, and ⑤ includes female managers at the unit chief level and above.

We dispatch employees to joint events with other companies as opportunities to broaden their perspectives through cross-industry exchanges and to help them objectively reevaluate their careers.

We are taking a bottom-up approach to the promotion of women's involvement in the workplace and in addition to company-sponsored events and training programs, our branch offices are also taking action in such forms as holding events with women employees at client companies and providing opportunities for staff to consider their own careers.

Furthermore, executives are actively involved in the training of women employees, and hold executive seminars to communicate management perspectives and expectations of women employees through direct dialogue. Some executive seminars are designed to make it easier for women employees taking care of children to participate by holding the sessions during lunchtime. We provide a variety of opportunities to help women employees grow in their careers.

In order to change the awareness of management, which is the key to creating an environment in which women can play an active role, SuMi TRUST Bank incorporates the topics of unconscious bias and women's health issues into its manager training programs.

Provides opportunities for young　employees, female managers from Group companies,and outside experts with experience in diversity promotion at other companies to make proposals on women's careers from their own perspectives. Through these and other means, the committee is working to deepen the understanding of ⅾiversity, equity and inclusion among executives.