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About the Women in Transport Equity Index Project

Welcome to the transformative Women in Transport Equity Index Project—a pioneering initiative reshaping the transport sector by championing diversity and equity. Our collaborative index establishes a vital baseline, recognising and rewarding best practices. This initiative extends beyond a mere index; it acts as a catalyst for continuous improvement, inspiring companies to drive positive change and foster a more equitable industry.

Project Lead

With over 35 years of experience, Sue Terpilowski OBE founded Image Line Communications, which has evolved into a premier PR, marketing, and visual event agency in the logistics, freight, ports, maritime and supply chain sectors. Sue is a proactive advocate for diversity and inclusion in maritime and logistics, earning the OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2014 for her impactful work and advocacy on behalf of micro and small businesses in London.

Project Partner

WORK180 is dedicated to establishing, reviewing, and driving global standards to create excellent workplaces for all women. Their commitment extends to positively impacting women of diverse backgrounds and experiences. Informed by their team of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) experts and guided by an intersectional lens, their standards reflect input from our global community of women and employers across various industries and align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Women in Transport Equity Index Report 2023

Women in Transport is proud to present the 2023 Women in Transport Equity Index Report. This comprehensive report serves as a crucial benchmarking tool, highlighting the pressing need for change within the transport sector. To delve into the findings and insights, download the full report using the button below.

The Merchant Navy Welfare Board, Bicycle Association, Kier and Mobility Lab are our 2023 report sponsors. The Women in Transport Equity Index was supported by CIHT, Diversity in Maritime, ITS UK, WISTA UK, Women in Boat Building, Women in Logistics UK, Women in Rail, and The Worshipful Company of Carmen.

Our partners were WORK180 and All Party Parliamentary Group for Women in Transport.

The Challenge and The Opportunities

The report reveals alarming statistics, emphasising the urgent need for gender equity in the industry:

  • Only 23% of the workforce identifies as women, with over half of them in non-transport roles.

  • Shockingly, 58% of organisations admit to a gender pay gap of 11% or more, surpassing the national average.

  • A staggering 54% of organisations lack formal targets, commitments, or quotas for gender diversity.

  • 59% offer no support to primary carers through paid parental leave.

  • While 94% of organisations claim openness to flexible working arrangements, challenges persist for women.

  • 88% offer flexible start and finish times, falling short of addressing deep-rooted gender disparities.

Celebrating Our 2023 Winners

We launched the Women in Transport Equity Index Report 2023 at Turner & Townsend in St Paul’s celebrating our overall index winners and highly commending our individual category winners. Our thanks to these trailblazing companies for leading in the way and helping us drive equity in transport by sharing data to support the sector as a whole.

Women in Transport Equity Index 2023 Highly Commended Award Winners

What’s Next?

In 2022, the Department for Transport established the Transport Employment and Skills Taskforce (TEST). TEST is a partnership between industry and Government, with external Chair, Rachel Skinner CBE, and comprises of leading transport industry figures who are best placed to reflect the sector’s concerns on skills and the transport labour market.    

TEST’s role is to act as a convenor of industry and share best practice in supporting the sector to:

  • Understand future sector skills needs

  • Attracting people to work in the transport sector

  • Developing people and strengthening the sector

In this capacity, TEST will be partnering with Women in Transport (and others) to deliver a series of events that highlight topics of importance where we can learn from others within and beyond the transport sector.  With Women in Transport, these events will focus on the findings from the Equity Index.

Look out for details of three webinars in 2024.

2024 Equity Index Report Launch

Excitingly, the 2024 Women in Transport Equity Index is on the horizon! This annual index is a comprehensive benchmarking tool to assess gender equity in the transport sector. The survey to participate will go live in June.

Join us in redefining the global standard for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the transport sector. Register now to shape a more diverse and equitable future for the industry!

Seeking Sponsors

To ensure the initiative's success, we are actively seeking sponsors dedicated to advancing gender equity in the transport industry. Become a sponsor to advocate for meaningful change within the sector. For sponsorship opportunities and more information, contact us at sue.terpilowski@womenintransport.com.

FAQs

  • Participating is free. The survey will officially open in June 2024. You can register your interest by emailing sue.terpilowski@womenintransport.com. Once we have verified your information and the survey is live, you will receive a link to take the survey. Please note that there may be a gap between registering and getting the link. Please bear with us, as we are all volunteers.

  • The data you provide allows us to create unique anonymous aggregated indexes, covering both the sub-sector of transport you have identified to be in and the overall Transport index.

    Your summary enables you to benchmark yourselves against others and the overall Transport index. It will help you understand where you are and learn what others are doing to drive forward diversity and inclusion. You can also access the relevant sheets from the hub to help you gain further insights into areas you may wish to improve on.

  • All data collected is anonymised and aggregated to ensure the privacy of participating organisations. The data we will be collecting includes a set of mandatory and optional questions. View the full list here.

  • The index survey typically takes around 10-15 minutes to complete. We have designed it to be efficient and user-friendly while capturing essential data for measuring diversity, equity, and inclusion in the transport industry.

  • The survey will run from 1 June to 30 September 2024. The headline data will be shared at the Women in Transport Winter Receptions and the full report will be released in March 2025.

  • WORK180, our partner in the survey, will send you a link to the survey platform. You will also get a link to the hub with fact sheets etc., from WORK180.

    You also have the unique opportunity to take their full survey for FREE, normally costing £2500. If you complete the full DEI assessment (over 150 questions), WORK180 will supply your company with your own report.

  • Registration form data. All information submitted will be held by Women in Transport in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and 2018 Data Protection Act and will be treated confidentially. Information will only be shared as necessary for the purposes of sending the survey link.

    All data collected is anonymised and aggregated to ensure the privacy of participating organisations. The insights and trends derived from the data empower us to provide valuable recommendations and solutions for fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. Your organisation’s data will be handled with the utmost care and used solely for the purpose of generating insights and driving positive industry-wide transformation.

    WORK180. All data collected is anonymised and aggregated to ensure the privacy of participating organisations. The insights and trends derived from the data empower us to provide valuable recommendations and solutions for fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. Your organisation’s data will be handled with the utmost care and used solely for the purpose of generating insights and driving positive industry-wide transformation. The link to the Privacy Policy can be found here.

  • The top five in the indexes will receive a 2024 badge and certificate they can use as they wish. You are free and we encourage you to share that you have participated in the survey. Don't forget to share on social hashtag #WomeninTransportEquityIndex #EquityinTransport

  • Reach out to Sue Terpilowski, Equity Index Project Lead: sue.terpilowski@womenintransport.com