MUMBAI: Hindustan Unilever Limited has achieved 44% gender diversity in 2021. The Company endeavours to build a diverse and inclusive organisation, in 2021 the Company’s approach to ED&I has been to raise a voice of allyship and advocacy, catalyse through progressive policies and support the evolving households and employee’s relationship with work, while sustaining the brilliant basics that have served well so far.
“We believe that until social justice and fairness become commonplace, it is our responsibility to drive equity and create a fairer, more socially inclusive society.”, the company said.
“We have achieved 44% gender diversity in 2021 across our managerial base and have a strong roadmap to be gender balanced by 2025.”, Company’s annual report revealed.
“Through several programmes we are striving to enhance women’s representation on the shop floor. Samavesh is our project to improve women’s participation in our factory shop floors.”
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With our Ahilya initiative, we are empowering women to become sales professionals.
“Our ambition is to achieve 5% of our workforce to be made up of people with disabilities by 2025.”, the company said.
“We are helping to build more resilient and equitable communities by raising living standards, advancing equity, diversity and inclusion.”, the report said.
As an organisation, your Company believes that flexibility will be a core feature of our new relationship with work. To build a balanced organisation, our objective has been to create a work life blend for women–which allows them to have thriving careers while having time carved out to refresh, recharge and re-energise.
The aim is to be gender balanced in managerial levels in the next few years and keeping with this view, in 2021 it have managed to improve gender balance from 41.78% in 2020 to 44.08% at managerial levels.
Another step in diversity step has also been the introduction of 250+ women in the sales outer core as a part of Project Ahilya and addition 57 women in Haldia and Kidderpore factories.
After the launch a gender-neutral policy to support the survivors of abuse in 2020, in March 2021, the Company launched campaign #UnMute: end the silence on domestic violence. With this initiative, it aimed to address the issues around women safety by not only enabling our employees and supporting our extended value chain, but also by becoming a voice of allyship on women’s safety and domestic violence.
Under this campaign, so far, it has managed to cover all our employees and over 100,000 women in our ecosystem and we aim to reach an additional 500,000 women by the end of 2022, the company said.
In 2021, the company also launched HUL ProUd network as an employee resource group for LGBTQI+ employees and allies. The HUL ProUd network is a channel within the Global Unilever ProUd Network and has more than 400 members in the group.
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