UN Women HeForShe Alliance

About HeForShe

HeForShe is the United Nations global solidarity movement for Gender Equality. HeForShe is an invitation for men and people of all genders to stand in solidarity with women to create a bold, visible and united force for gender equality. The men of HeForShe aren’t on the sidelines. They’re working with women and with each other to build businesses, raise families, and give back to their communities.

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Antonio Guterres: “Power is as the heart of the matter as we still live in a male dominated world with a male dominated culture”

Text: According to the World Economic Forum, it will take 136 years to close the gender gap worldwide.

Text:  Globally, more than 90% of all Heads of Government and Fortune 500 CEOs are male.

Text: 1 in 3 women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime

So what do we want?

Emma Watson: “We want to end gender inequality, and to do this we need everyone involved”

Text: We started a global movement to engage men to change male dominated cultures

So together we can achieve gender equality!

Winston Duke: “We men must play an active role in ensuring a more just world”

Emma Watson: “It’s about engaging governments, businesses, and universities, and having them make concrete commitments to gender equality”

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Leaders of countries

Companies

Campuses

And Communities

Text: This movement has created over 3 billion conversations each year

Text: Our HeForShe Alliance includes over 600 million citizens committed to gender equality

With each member committing to specific change.

Anne Hathaway: “Why is it always women who have to break through the glass ceiling? Where are the men willing to throw boulders down through it?”

Howard University President: “And so, you do need men to partner in terms of undoing those injustices, when you look at things like pay equality.”

DP World Chairman: “Gender equality and gender equity make 100% business sense.”

Text: Men across the world have shown that with concerted effort and targeted action, issues of gender-based violence can be addressed

Malawi Chief: “We shall commit ourselves to ensuring that there is no gender-based violence, there will be no child abuse, no forced early child marriages. Men must also take a stand”

Text: Through the activism of Champions, HeForShe has enabled change through groundbreaking advocacy campaigns.

Video: Central Asia campaign video interview – Teach your children that violence is wrong. It should not exist in any form.

Text: These Champions and the HeForShe movement show that change is possible.

Text: But let’s not forget, global gender equality is still over 100 years away.

With the actions of individuals and institutions like you, we can make it happen this decade, together.

Simon Pegg video: “We have the opportunity to change something now. That’s what HeForShe is about. Gender equality is good for everyone. Are you with us?”


How we partnered with HeForShe

At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2015, PwC became an IMPACT 10x10x10 champion – making PwC one of the first ten corporations around the world committing to take bold, game-changing action to achieve gender equality within and beyond their institutions. Skip forward to March 2021, and we were excited to renew our pledge to the HeForShe movement by becoming one of the inaugural HeForShe Alliance partners and making two PwC HeForShe Alliance commitments. The HeForShe Alliance is an intimate group of the most ambitious leaders from across government, the corporate world and third sector with the aim of accelerating progress towards gender equality.

We graduated from the HeForShe Alliance partnership December 2023, but as former partners, we continue to be ambassadors for the HeForShe solidarity movement. At PwC, we are aware of the critical role that the private sector has in advancing gender equality, and partnering with UN Women HeForShe provided us a platform to act as role models in our industry but also join forces with HeForShe to truly accelerate the pace of change. In combination with our wider I&D strategy and efforts, our HeForShe commitments have had a positive impact both within and beyond PwC. Here are some of the highlights of the progress we’ve made under both partnerships:

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HeForShe 10x10x10 Impact Champion

  • 102,574 PwC solvers personally made the HeForShe pledge
  • We released a global Building Gender IQ eLearn module to raise awareness of the impact of gender norms and stereotypes, the costs of gender inequality, and the benefits of gender equality for individuals and societies. This learning was completed by tens of thousands of people within and beyond PwC
  • We adopted the Inclusion Index, our Inclusion & Diversity accountability framework, and have since built on this initial mechanism with the evolution to our seven Network I&D Key Performance Indicators

HeForShe Alliance Partnership

We enhanced our global annual diversity reporting efforts, find out how we are doing here.

We committed to extensive upskilling in Inclusive Leadership through the development and release of our Inclusive Mindset learning path/knowledge badge and the development of a subsequent Inclusive Culture skill badge. Find out more about how we are doing here.

“Engaging men to be activists, disruptors, to make a change for the benefit of others is hugely important”

Bob Moritz, Former PwC Global Chairman and HeForShe Alliance CEO Champion

Key Resources

  • HeForShe Summit (September 2022), PwC Global Chairman Bob Moritz was part of the fireside conversation focused on The Compondounding Effects of Crisis and Gender. View it here
  • HeForShe Summit (September 2021), PwC Global Chairman Bob Moritz discusses PwC’s HeForShe Alliance commitments along with how PwC have moved into action when it comes to gender equality. View it here

Key Resources

  • HeForShe Summit (September 2022), PwC Global Chairman Bob Moritz was part of the fireside conversation focused on The Compondounding Effects of Crisis and Gender. View it here
  • HeForShe Summit (September 2021), PwC Global Chairman Bob Moritz discusses PwC’s HeForShe Alliance commitments along with how PwC have moved into action when it comes to gender equality. View it here
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Aoife Flood

Aoife Flood

Senior Manager, Global Inclusion and Diversity, PwC Ireland (Republic of)

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