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Our roadmap to reaching gender equality takes into account corporate culture, career opportunities and community involvement.
OUR PATH TO PARITY
CULTURE
Embracing inclusion and equity as our cornerstone includes
Women’s Network Employee Resource Group (ERG) to support women in their careers and drive better business results through mentoring, work-life integration strategies and network building.
Strong encouragement to take the pledge for #EqualEverywhere
An integrity helpline and a virtually accessible library of resources on gender parity and mitigating bias for employee awareness
Regularly connecting with and engaging our employees in the discussion (via Workplace from Facebook and manufacturing facility digital billboards)
An Executive Sponsorship Program with 45% female representation that enables aspiring leaders to advance their careers
Culture
Culture
Culture
Career
Culture
Career
Making success that much more achievable includes
Benefits like LifeCare that provide personalized support using innovative technology to help employees successfully manage daily responsibilities and life challenges
Career
A Returner Pilot Program that offers mid-career, primarily female professionals (who’ve exited for two+ years) a paid 4-month assignment, with the goal of converting to full-time employee
Career
Community
Making the right connections for women includes
More STEAM education for girls through joint initiatives
Community
Partnerships with sports heroes leveling the playing field
Community
Ongoing support of world-renowned organizations advancing gender equity, including the UN Foundation and the #EqualEverywhere campaign
Community
OUR PATH TO PARITY
Our roadmap to reaching gender equality takes into account corporate culture, career opportunities and community involvement.
Culture
Embracing inclusion and equity as our cornerstone includes
Women’s Network Employee Resource Group (ERG) to support women in their careers and drive better business results through mentoring, work-life integration strategies and network building.
Regularly connecting with and engaging our employees in the discussion (e.g., via Workplace from Facebook and manufacturing facility digital billboards)
Strong encouragement to take the pledge for #EqualEverywhere
An integrity helpline and a virtually accessible library of resources on gender parity and mitigating bias for employee awareness
Career
Making success that much more achievable includes
An Executive Sponsorship Program with 45% female representation that enables aspiring leaders to advance their careers
Benefits like LifeCare that provide personalized support using innovative technology to help employees successfully manage daily responsibilities and life challenges
A Returner Pilot Program that offers mid-career, primarily female professionals (who’ve exited for two+ years) a paid 4-month assignment, with the goal of converting to full-time employee
Women’s Network ERG peer coaching; career development through Society for Women Engineers (SWE), Network of Executive Females (NEW), Industrial Supply Association (WISE).
COMMUNITY
Making the right connections for women includes
More STEAM education for girls through joint initiatives
Partnerships with sports heroes leveling the playing field
Ongoing support of world-renowned organizations advancing gender equity, including the UN Foundation and the #EqualEverywhere campaign
Deeper engagement with the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)
Women’s Network ERG peer coaching; career development through Society for Women Engineers (SWE), Network of Executive Females (NEW), Industrial Supply Association (WISE).
Career
Deeper engagement with the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)
Community
We joined Paradigm for Parity, coalition committed to achieving a new norm in corporate leadership by 2030; one in which women and men have equal power, status
and opportunity.
Equal Everywhere brings together the United Nations Foundation and partners committed to achieving the urgent systemic change that’s needed at all levels, in all countries.
CEO Jim Loree is a signatory of CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, committing to advance diversity and inclusion in the workforce.
Alone we can make progress, but together we can truly change the world.
OUR PARTNERSHIPS
We’re working with Girls for Technology and greenlight for girls to close the technology and engineering gender gap, encourage STEAM education and make learning fun.
By partnering with WBENC – the largest third-party certifier of owned, controlled and operated by women in the U.S. – we’ve made it our business to help women stay in business.
Things change quickly. By working with Path Forward, we’re exploring ways to make it easier for women to return to the workforce following a break to focus on family.
STEAM
Education
Our Partnerships
Alone we can make progress, but together we can truly change the world.
We joined Paradigm for Parity, coalition committed to achieving a new norm in corporate leadership by 2030; one in which women and men have equal power, status and opportunity.
Equal Everywhere brings together the United Nations Foundation and partners committed to achieving the urgent systemic change that’s needed at all levels, in all countries.
CEO Jim Loree is a signatory of
CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, committing to advance diversity and inclusion in the workforce.
We’re working with Girls for Technology and greenlight for girls to close the technology and engineering gender gap, encourage STEAM education and make learning fun.
By partnering with WBENC – the largest third-party certifier of owned, controlled and operated by women in the U.S. – we’ve made it our business to help women stay in business.
Things change quickly. By working with Path Forward, we’re exploring ways to make it easier for women to return to the workforce following a break to focus on family.