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In September 2017, we partnered with UN Women to become a HeForShe Thematic Champion and pledged to make a tangible difference. We committed to invest US$3 million in programmes that support women and girls in our partner communities; to achieve parity in our leadership appointment rate by 2020 and to ensure that we were a positive force for gender equality through our marketing campaigns.

Our colleagues across world and at every level of leadership united behind these commitments. Driven by their energy we reached our goals by the end of 2020. In March 2021, we extended our partnership with UN Women for a further five-years, joining the HeForShe Alliance and expanding our commitments as part of our journey towards our Building Forever 2030 goals.  

This included committing to increase the representation of women in technical roles and leadership and promoting a culture that enables our journey to achieving gender parity by 2030; as well as investing US$3 million to expand our EntreprenHER programme as part of our goal of supporting 10,000 women entrepreneurs by 2030.

#HeForShe

Initiated by UN Women, HeForShe is a global movement that invites people around the world to stand together as equal partners to speed up the pace of change around gender equality.

Within De Beers, we launched #CountMeIn on International Women’s Day 2017, to encourage our colleagues to commit to HeForShe and work together across the business to find solutions to support gender equality for the benefit of all. Since then, we have also been raising awareness of HeForShe through the communities in which we work, with our customers and within the diamond industry.

In March 2021, we joined the HeForShe Alliance, which brings together ambitious leaders across government, the corporate world and civil society to develop the largest set of scalable and shareable solutions for gender equality’s most pressing challenges.

We have also joined the UN Women convened Unstereotype Alliance, which seeks to eradicate harmful stereotypes in media and advertising content. In coalition with partners across many industries, we are working to use advertising as a force for good to drive positive change all over the world.

 

Find out more below:

EntreprenHER

The EntrenprenHER programme supports women around our operations in southern Africa to develop their own businesses

STEM

Providing opportunities for future generations to pursue studies in science, technology, engineering and maths

Inclusion and Diversity

Our business, like our product, is reliant on many unique facets working together