Measures to promote women on the Management Board, the Supervisory Board and in executive positions
A community the size of ours at UNIQA lives and breathes through diversity. We value and respect each other, regardless of gender, age, origin, physical ability, sexual orientation, religion or ideology. Our employees are just as diverse as our customers. A diverse workforce helps us to better understand our customers and better serve their different needs. For us, the guiding principle “Living better together” is only fulfilled when equal rights and equal opportunities are given in their entirety.
UNIQA is convinced that diversity, equal opportunities and inclusion promote employee loyalty to the company as well as their innovative potential and productivity. Since they lead to higher customer satisfaction and better financial results, diversity and inclusion are also a decisive factor for economic success and growth. UNIQA has been honoured with the Diversity Leader Award 2025 from “weconomy” for a project that substantiates this stance with data.
There are now four women on the Supervisory Board of UNIQA Insurance Group AG including Marie-Valerie Brunner, Anna Maria D’Hulster, Jutta Kath and Monika Henzinger. This means that the proportion of female Supervisory Board members among the elected members (shareholder representatives) has reached 40 per cent and is therefore well above the quota required by law. With Sabine Andre and Sonja Haid, two more women have also been delegated to the group of employee representatives on the Supervisory Board, which means that there is now also a quota of 40 per cent female members here. In relation to the full Supervisory Board, this also results in a proportion of women of 40 per cent, which significantly exceeds the statutory quota of 30 per cent.
The Management Boards of UNIQA Insurance Group AG and UNIQA Österreich Versicherungen AG, which include the same seven members, now also include one woman, Sabine Pfeffer, which sends out an important signal on the way to the goal of “More women in executive roles”. In addition to its clear commitment to this goal, the UNIQA Group will of course continue to implement various accompanying measures. A clear expression of this stance is the inclusion of a target for gender balance – and therefore for increasing the proportion of women in management positions – in the long-term variable management remuneration of this body.
Other measures include, for example, revising the policies for filling management positions. These now enable greater transparency and thereby increase awareness among decision-makers, while also providing starting points for effective measures. As part of the “WeInspire” executive leadership programme, an above-average proportion of women (30 per cent) was deliberately taken into account. The new programme “UNIQAlnie być kobietą” (“UNIQly to be a Woman”) from UNIQA Poland is a development-oriented initiative and is aimed specifically at women in management positions. In Austria, a mentoring programme has been held annually since 2021, with women currently making up 87 per cent of participants. In the successful cross-border mentoring pilot project in the six-country SEE6 region, which aims to promote international contacts and careers, 71 per cent of the mentees and 52 per cent of the mentors were female.
The objective is to change the framework conditions and prerequisites in such a way that the organisation becomes more permeable overall for women’s careers and to attract more female managers to the labour market. As of the end of 2025, women made up 56.3 per cent of the total workforce in the UNIQA Group, up from 55.6 per cent in 2024. This high proportion is primarily driven by the international insurance companies (63.9 per cent); however, it also rose in Austria in 2025 (from 42.8 per cent to 43.8 per cent).
The proportion of women on the Group’s Management Board is 30.2 per cent, which is slightly lower than in 2024 (2024: 32.1 per cent). Of the 1,463 managers across the Group, 620 are women, which equates to 42.4 per cent and is therefore higher than the figure of 40.9 per cent from 2024. There is a clear difference between the international and Austrian companies of the UNIQA Group (proportion of women 48.9 per cent compared to 25.1 per cent).