Trailblazer Pacesetter LATE BLOOMER
Company Narrative
Chevron, a dominant leader in the industry of petroleum refining, has been ranked as a LATE BLOOMER on the Women’s Power & Influence Index.
Chevron has achieved pay equity and pay parity. Chevron offers female employees mentorship opportunities through their Executive Women’s Forum. Chevron also actively seeks out the talent of women to attract them to their company. Chevron is dedicated to providing women employees with parental leave, free childcare support, and women-specific healthcare.
As of 2022, Chevron has 30% of women in their workforce and 29% of leadership is women.
Information regarding Chervon’s subsidized childcare offerings could not be found.
Workforce Profile
Equitable Pay
✓ Does the company demonstrate a clear and transparent commitment to equal pay?
“Chevron is committed to providing equal pay for equal work.”
✘ Does the company perform an annual analysis of gender pay equity and pay disparities?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
✓ Do female employees earn at least 95% of what their male counterparts earn?
“a 2018 study of U.S. employees found that women are paid 99.9 percent of what men are paid and that minorities are paid 99.9 percent of what non-minorities are paid.”
Career Growth
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to actively attracting, retaining, and/or promoting women within the organization?
“We continue to endorse affirmative action programs for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans as a tool to help eliminate potential barriers to equal employment opportunity and achieve a diverse and inclusive workforce.”
Ref: Pg. 1, EEO Policy
✓ Does the company provide professional development programs designed specifically for female employees?
“Global women’s leadership development program Promotes acceleration of women’s leadership development and experience.”
Ref: Chevron Diversity & Inclusion
✓ Does the company provide professional development programs designed specifically for diverse employees?
“Our employee networks bring essential value to the business. In 2018, more than 19,000 employees — more than 40 percent of our regular workforce — participated in our employee networks: Asian Employee Network, Black Employee Network, …, Women’s Employee Network, XYZ Employee Network (Early and Mid career).”
Ref: Chevron Diversity & Inclusion
✓ Does the company offer a formal mentoring program to support the career advancement of all female employees?
“We encourage participation in communities like the Executive Women’s Forum (EWF), whose mission is to engage, develop and advance all women in the information security, IT risk management and privacy industries through education, leadership development and relationship building. We believe the EWF’s cross-company mentoring and lessons sharing can benefit Chevron’s members, who in turn can inspire and empower women in our workforce to achieve leadership positions in cybersecurity.”
Ref: Pg. 58, 2022 Corporate Sustainability Report
✓ Does the company offer a formal mentoring program to support the career advancement of diverse employees?
“Chevron also offers multiple leadership development programs with a focus on self-refection, continuous learning and strategic networking. Specifically for women, the Transformational Leadership® for Multicultural Women Program addresses headwinds faced by multicultural women in their leadership journeys.”
Ref: Pg. 43, 2022 Corporate Sustainability Report
✓ Does the company have policies and programs in place to actively recruit female candidates?
“Chevron pursues the talent of underrepresented groups, including women and minority groups, through programs and partnerships. This includes developing strong relationships with universities and diversity associations. Our approach begins with our refreshed external careers website, including 21 country pages to highlight our diversity and inclusion efforts and attract multigenerational talent around the globe.”
Ref: Pg. 41, 2022 Corporate Sustainability Report
✓ Does the company have policies and programs in place to actively recruit diverse candidates?
Looking beyond traditional talent sourcing channels, such as specifc schools and universities, we’ve collaborated regionally with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.® and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® This expansion allows us to attract underrepresented candidates from historically African American organizations.”
Ref: Pg. 41, 2022 Corporate Sustainability Report
Work-Life Balance
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to providing support and/or time off for women with children?
“Becoming a parent or being a parent can be one of the most rewarding life events you’ll ever encounter. With it may come questions about taking time off, bonding benefits, child care programs, lactation support and resources for adjusting to new family relationships or everyday parenting concerns. Here, you’ll find information about parent-related resources, plans and programs that may be available to you through Chevron.”
Ref: Chevron Parents and Parents-to-be
✓ Does the company provide child care support for employees?
“Through Chevron, U.S.-payroll employees have access to a free, premium Sittercity account to find and screen caregivers, like nannies, sitters and eldercare professionals.”
Ref: Chevron Child Care Resources
✘ Does the company offer subsidized child care?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.
✓Does the company offer paid maternity leave for birthing parents?
“The Bonding benefit provides paid time off for mothers and fathers to bond with their child within one year of the birth, adoption or placement for adoption or foster care.”
✓Does the company provide paid parental leave that extends beyond birthing parents to include surrogacy, adoption, and paternity leave?
“The Bonding benefit provides paid time off for mothers and fathers to bond with their child within one year of the birth, adoption or placement for adoption or foster care.”
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to supporting the health benefits of its female employees?
“The plan helps pay covered charges for family planning and related services. These services include: • The diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions that result in infertility, including expenses related to surgery and drug therapy.”
Ref: Pg. 2, Chevron Family Planning and Infertility Services
✓ Does the company offer women-specific health benefits for female employees?
“[Charges] Included are physician-prescribed contraceptives that require insertion by a physician or significant physician follow-up, such as injectable contraceptives, morning-after pills, implants (such as Depo, Provera or Levonorgestrel), IUDs, diaphragms, other removable devices and related office visits.”
Ref: Pg. 2, Chevron Family Planning and Infertility Services
Workplace Standards
✓ Does the company have a policy listing prohibited behaviors, such as harassment and retaliation?
“Sexual harassment is an unlawful form of discrimination based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation. It includes unwelcome sexual advances or requests for sexual favors where (1) submission to such conduct is an explicit or implicit condition of employment; or (2) such conduct interferes with work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment.”
Ref: Pg. 1, Chevron Sexual Harassment Notice
✓ Does the company mandate all employees to undergo harassment and discrimination training?
“In 2021, to educate our workforce, we provided human rights training to more than 5,400 employees and contractors – including appropriate personnel who joined Chevron as part of the Noble Energy acquisition ‐ using our updated human rights computer-based training module.”
✓ Does the company have a defined harassment policy that includes promptly addressing reported incidents?
“Complaints will be promptly and effectively investigated, with prompt and effective corrective action for substantiated allegations.”
Ref: Pg. 2, Chevron Sexual Harassment Notice
Stakeholder Engagement
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to helping external stakeholders address gender equality issues?
“We have worked with our university partners to help them improve their diversity and inclusion efforts. We help develop programs to address diversity and inclusion issues and to improve opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities, the retention of students, and the inclusivity environment at their universities.”
Ref: Chevron Diversity & Inclusion Policies
✓ Does the company offer and support initiatives that promote gender equality in the community?
“To help improve opportunities in STEM education for young girls, we convened sessions with the National Science Foundation, NBC Learn, and more than 15 professional and diversity associations to develop the Women in Engineering Educational Outreach and Training curriculum to arm teachers with materials on engineering that will help expand the pipeline of talent.”
✓ Does the company demonstrate a commitment to helping internal stakeholders/employees address gender equality issues?
“A diverse workforce and inclusive culture help us strengthen areas that need improvement and inspire creative solutions. We believe the attention given to diversity and inclusion makes us more agile, trustworthy and innovative. Chevron’s diversity and inclusion programs aim to foster a truly inclusive workplace that encourages more meaningful engagement among all employees to strengthen our performance.”
Ref: Chevron Diversity & Inclusion Policies
✘ Does the company offer equity-focused trainings, speaker programs, or events for employees?
Information regarding this criterion was unavailable or incomplete.