Sustainability reports have become more and more popular in recent years throughout the business world and they tend to report significantly more than just carbon emissions.
Lufthansa has this week published its 2016 Sustainability Report and one of the areas it covers is diversity in the workplace.
The company earlier this year came second in the Women-on-Board Index 100 II which is calculated according to the percentage share of women in supervisory and management board positions.
Two of the company's five-strong executive board are women but this high percentage does not extend to the company as a whole. The chart below left shows that the number of women in management positions has increased for the past five years and now stands at 14.9%. However the chart on the right shows that the proportion of women with staff responsibility has fallen.
The report also reveals that the average age of employees is now 42.3 years, up from 40.2 years ten years ago. It also shows that the trend for female employees to be younger than their male counterparts continues.
In 2015, the airline launched the Diversity@LHGroup project to improve gender balance in management, internationality and age. The company now limits management positions to five years and permits sabbaticals "to better accommodate the life situations of modern managers". There is also a cross-company mentoring programme for younger female managers.
There is a huge disparity in working hours. The number of female employees who are in part-time employment at the airline group is now 45.7% while the corresponding figure for male employees is 14.9%. The figures have barely changed in a decade.