Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Advancing gender equality

ARTE is committed to promoting gender equality in the workplace and to strengthening the visibility and role of women in society, both within the company and across its programming.

As a Franco-German media organization, ARTE operates across different legal and regulatory frameworks. Despite these different national contexts, the group shares a common commitment to equal opportunity and non-discrimination.

ARTE promotes a culture of equality by working to ensure fair pay, supporting access to professional development, encouraging a healthy work-life balance, and preventing sexual harassment as well as sexist or discriminatory behaviour.

Measuring pay equity

ARTE regularly monitors gender pay equality through recognized assessment frameworks used in France. These indicators help measure progress in key areas such as pay gaps, salary increases, promotions, maternity-related salary review, and gender balance among top earners.

AFNOR labels

ARTE France has received external recognition for its policies and actions supporting workplace equality and anti-discrimination.

Preventing harassment

ARTE raises awareness among its teams about the prevention of sexist and sexual violence and harassment.

A dedicated reporting platform is available across the ARTE group for internal and external reports relating to sexual harassment and sexist behaviour.

ARTE is committed to examining and responding to every situation reported to management, designated contacts, or human resources.

Women on screen and behind the scenes

ARTE works regularly with women writers, directors and producers, and seeks a balanced representation of women and men both on screen and behind the camera. Monitoring tools are in place to assess women’s representation in key creative roles across co-produced and broadcast programmes.

Women host many of ARTE’s flagship news and current affairs programmes, including ARTE Europe Weekly and ARTE Journal and they lead a wide range of other shows.

ARTE also supports initiatives that improve the visibility of women experts in public debate and in the media. Both the selection committee for cinema and the programme line-up of the ARTEKino Festival follow strict gender parity principles.

Diversity and inclusion

ARTE is committed to fighting all forms of discrimination and to reflecting as accurately as possible the diversity of French and German society in both its programmes and its organization. Leading by example in diversity is one of the strategic goals of the ARTE Group Project 2025–2028.

This commitment is supported by internal agreements and concrete actions relating to gender equality, diversity, inclusion, disability and intergenerational exchange. Since November 2024, ARTE has been a signatory to the Diversity Charter, supported by the French organisation Les Entreprises pour la Cité. Through this commitment, ARTE reaffirms its dedication to equal opportunities, the prevention of discrimination at every stage of working life, and the promotion of an inclusive corporate culture, in line with the measures already implemented across the Group.

ARTE promotes equal opportunity in professional life through partnerships with organisations that support young graduates from underrepresented backgrounds, refugees entering the workplace, and students from priority education networks. Through these initiatives, ARTE helps broaden access to professional experience and strengthens its contribution to social inclusion.

Inclusive recruitment

The three entities that make up ARTE aim to reflect the diversity of society in their workforce through inclusive recruitment practices.

Employees involved in recruitment receive training on diversity and unconscious bias in order to help ensure fairer hiring processes.

Disability inclusion

ARTE is committed to the employment and inclusion of people with disabilities. A dedicated disability contact person has been appointed in Strasbourg, and regular awareness-raising initiatives help employees better understand different forms of disability, including visible and invisible disabilities, and their impact in the workplace.

As a public service broadcaster, ARTE also works to make its programmes as accessible as possible, so that people with disabilities can access a wide range of content both on air and across its digital platforms.