November 24, 2022
Sekisui House, Ltd.

Awarded first place at WEPs AWARDS 2022
Sekisui House, Ltd. was awarded first place in the Community Engagement and Partnerships
category of the WEPs (The Women's Empowerment Principles) AWARDS (hosted by UN Women
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific) on November 23, 2022.
The WEPs AWARDS encourage as many companies as possible in the Asian region to take action topromote gender equality and women's empowerment. Examples of companies and organizations
across 6 categories* actually taking action are evaluated by the We EMPOWER Asia program andexperts working in the region, with the top three companies in each category selected for awards.
The Community Engagement and Partnerships category recognizes
companies and actions that promote gender equality through community
engagement and partnerships, as well as transformative action andsystemic change through partnerships beyond the community.
Major initiatives of the Sekisui House Group that were subject to evaluation
 Initiatives to encourage male employees to take paternity leave
The Sekisui House Group has a global vision to make home the happiest place in the world.
We are promoting our business with the desire to make the homes we provide to our customers
the happiest places in the world. To realize this vision, we first want our employees and theirfamilies to be happy, so in July 2018, we declared that all male employees should take at least
one month of paternity leave, with programs to encourage this starting in September 2018. Thesystem was fully deployed from February 2019 onwards and by the end of October 2022, all of
the 1,479 male employees whose children had reached their third birthday (the deadline fortaking leave) had taken at least one month of paternity leave, achieving a 100% take rate.

 Holding a Male Paternity Leave ForumThe Sekisui House Group has established September 19 as a company day to think aboutpaternity leave. This is not only to commemorate the promotion of men taking paternity leave,
but also to make paternity leave an opportunity to think about creating a better society. Inaddition, we have hosted a collaborative industry, government and academia forum focused on
paternity leave since 2019. In conjunction with the Forum, we also conduct a web-based surveyof 9,400 people across Japan to find out the actual status of men's participation in child raisingduties throughout Japan, and have been issuing an annual white paper on paternity leave since
2019.

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The Sekisui House Group will continue to lead society in the promotion of diversity and inclusion
based on our global vision to make home the happiest place in the world.
*The six WEPs categories are: Leadership Commitment, Gender-Inclusive Workplace, GenderResponsive Marketplace, Community Engagement and Partnerships, Transparency and Reporting andYouth Leadership (for leaders under 35)
WEPs AWARDS HP (English):https://www.asiapacificwepsawards.org/
Sekisui House Diversity & Inclusion homepage (Japanese):https://www.sekisuihouse.co.jp/diversity_inclusion/

About Sekisui House
Founded in 1960, Sekisui House, Ltd. is one of world’s largest homebuilders and an international
diversified developer, with cumulative sales of over 2.5 million homes1. Based in Osaka, Sekisui

House has over 300 consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates2, over 29,000 employees3 and is listed on
the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Nagoya Stock Exchange.
Sekisui House aims to create homes and communities that improve with time and last forgenerations. With “Love of Humanity” as its Corporate Philosophy, Sekisui House believes that homes
should offer comfort, security and peace of mind for residents, while maintaining harmony with theenvironment and its surroundings. Sekisui House has sustainability as a core corporate target and is

now the global leader in the construction of net-zero-energy houses with more than sixty-thousand4of them built since the product was launched in 2013. In 2009, Sekisui House expanded into several
new international markets and now operates in the United States, China, Singapore, Australia andthe United Kingdom.
*1: 2,544,849 homes delivered (As of January 31, 2022)*2: 340 consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates (As of July 31, 2022)*3: 29,868 employees (As of July 31, 2022)*4: 69,163 net-zero-energy houses (As of March 31, 2022)

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