The Women in Finance Charter

In November 2016 AAT signed up to the Women in Finance Charter and was the first accountancy body to do so.

AAT's commitment

With women comprising approximately two-thirds of AAT's nearly 137,000 members worldwide, AAT has been a leading voice calling for the promotion of gender equality in business.

When we signed up to the Charter in November 2016 we had 30% female representation at senior management level. (This relates to the AAT leadership team, which is made up of the Executive team and Senior Management team.) Our original target was to have 40% women in senior management by March 2022. We met this target early.

Our current commitment is to ensure the percentage of women in senior management does not drop below 45% by March 2027 and as of September 2025 we have 81% female.

• The gender split on our Executive team as of September 2025 is 67% female.
• Our Diversity and Inclusion Champions have continued communications to the business to educate, raise awareness with, and engage colleagues around a whole variety of diversity and inclusion matters.
• We signed up to the Race at Work Charter in 2021 and we published our ethnicity pay gap figures for the fourth time in 2025.
• We continue to be members of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion and they've supported us with inclusivity training for all colleagues.