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Our Vision: We will accelerate economic inclusion and support diverse voices to help shape the future of our business, communities and society.

Building on our work to establish ethical practices and generate positive outcomes for the people and environments where we operate, we also focus on creating equal opportunity for all, across the entire diamond value chain.  We recognise that it takes continuous focus on identifying and removing systemic barriers to social and economic inclusion and that equal opportunity will benefit us all. We are therefore implementing and continually strengthening our programmes to support equal opportunities – in our business, our communities and in the wider industry – across all forms of diversity including gender, race, age, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.

Our 2030 Goals for our Accelerating Equal Opportunity pillar focus in three key areas  – inclusive workplace, women in business and tech and diverse talent in the diamond jewellery sector.

 

Inclusive Workplace

By 2030, we will achieve equal opportunity, including gender parity, for employees across our workforce.

By 2025, we will achieve 30% women’s representation across our workforce and 40% women’s representation in senior roles.

By 2025, we will achieve 85% on both our Inclusion Index and employee Sustainable Engagement Score to demonstrate all teams are committed to inclusive leadership, innovation and wellbeing.

By 2025, we will identify and address the potential for bias in emerging technology throughout our business.1

Women in Business and Technology

By 2030, we will support 10,000 women entrepreneurs and engage 10,000 girls in STEM.

By 2025 we will have engaged 5,000 young women and girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities through school workshops, undergraduate fellowships, scholarships and mentoring. 

By 2025, through our enterprise development programmes, we will have supported 5,000 women entrepreneurs and increased the income of those in our EntreprenHER programme by an average of 25%.

We will continue to scale our partnerships with UN Women, local governments and NGOs on our southern African EntreprenHER programme for female micro-entrepreneurs.

 

Diverse Talent in Jewellery

By 2030, we will increase the diversity of creative talent in the diamond jewellery sector.

  • We will co-develop opportunities in the diamond jewellery sector for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) creative talent in the United States and understand barriers for under-represented communities in our other consumer markets. 
  • We will work with partners to develop a detailed approach to the diamond jewellery talent pipeline from education through to career.
  • We will continue to build skills and opportunities in diamond jewellery for creative talent from our producer countries, including expansion of our De Beers Designers Initiative.
 

Footnotes: 

1 New technology can embody current biases because algorithms can embody the assumptions of their creators (mostly men at the current time) and artificial intelligence (AI) reflects the historic data sources (or lack of) on which it is based.  This can impact technology such as AI based candidate recommendations during recruitment.  To avoid creating new barriers to inclusion it is important to understand the risk of bias and ensure the opportunities for technology to enable inclusion are realised.