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Women’s equity

Deloitte is focused on increasing representation of women across all levels of our business and in all parts of our organization and is delivering on a global strategy to enable this.

Working toward women’s equity at Deloitte

 

We have set goals through 2025 against which our global leadership monitors progress and are currently establishing future goals. We have developed consistent global standards spanning the entire career life cycle—from recruitment, promotion and succession processes to development, mentoring, sponsorship, and agile/flexible working.

International Women’s Day 2024

It’s 2024, but millions of women and girls are still not able to realize their full potential. At Deloitte, we know that our focus on women’s equality and empowerment cannot end at our own walls.

Through our WorldClass social impact programs we are committed to building #BetterFutures. That includes helping enable access to quality education and training, economic empowerment, and business and #STEM skills for women and girls, like the ones featured in this film. In 2023 alone, we supported over 1200 programs across more than 90 countries. Learn more about how we are forging a more inclusive world for women and girls.

Deloitte’s focus on representation does not end with our own organization. We believe that we have a responsibility to be a force for good and to lead the way on the complex challenges that stand in the way of women’s equity in wider society. As part of our WorldClass societal impact agenda, we are empowering women and girls around the world, as brought to life in Deloitte’s first Global Gender Impact Report, launched on International Women’s Day in 2020. This included stories showing the power and impact of education, sponsorship and mentorship and the ‘butterfly effect’ that takes place as a result—a theme we continued to highlight for International Women’s Day in 2021 and concluded in 2022 when we focused on the simple everyday acts we can all take to Be the Butterfly and make an impact. The 2023 IWD campaign, “I’m a woman and…” was a call to action for each of us to commit playing our part in stopping the assumptions that are still too often made about women.

We also collaborate with like-minded organizations and as such we are a proud strategic partner of the Women’s Forum—a global platform for action to highlight women’s voices and vision and build a more inclusive economy and society. We are also a global supporter and expert community member of Catalyst, a global non-profit that helps build workplaces that work for women through the development of thought leadership, end-to-end solutions and by bringing together 500+ supporter companies that share leading practices and build positive change.

Deloitte also conducts research into critical gender equality-related issues. Building on its 2020 survey exploring the impact of the pandemic on working women, in May 2021, Deloitte Global published its inaugural Women @ Work: A global outlook report. Now in its fourth year, the report is built on a survey of 5,000 working women (outside Deloitte) across 10 countries to hear directly from them about their experiences in the workplace and factors that can impact that.

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

 

Deloitte stands against violence against women. As part of the United Nations’ “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” campaign we are advocating for a world free of gender-based violence and promoting education to drive change. With 1 in 3 women worldwide experiencing violence, it’s imperative that we take action to prevent violence and advance women’s equity at work and in our communities. The video below shares some of the statistics around violence against women and serves as a call to action to us all to take a stand and commit to taking steps to combatting this violence.