Gender Equality at Unilever Australia and New Zealand

We want to help create a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful norms and stereotypes. We believe a world where women are economically empowered will be a fairer, happier and more prosperous place to live for everybody – and that our business will flourish in it.

Changing the norms & closing the gender gap

At the current rate of progress, women will have to wait 108 years to close the gender gap with men. Despite advances in some areas over the last decade, this wait is showing few signs of shrinking fast. The annual World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report, published in December 2018, found that the most challenging gender gap remains in the economic sphere, which the report found will take 202 years to close.

This wait is unacceptable – for current and future generations of women and girls, and for the societies and economies of which they and our business are a part.

We want our business to be a leading force in closing the gender gap, and to challenge and change the harmful norms and stereotypes that are a barrier to women’s economic empowerment – and the norms and stereotypes of masculinity that confine men too.