Dallas, United States:
Mary Kay Inc.,a long-standing champion and international advocate for ladies’s empowerment and gender equality, has launched a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) assertion celebrating Global Diversity Awareness Month and hosted a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summit together with World Inclusion Day.
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Julia A. Simon, Chief Legal and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Mary Kay (Photo: Mary Kay Inc.)
Through these efforts, Mary Kay is holding itself accountable to its DEI commitments that are centered round three elementary ideas: understanding by means of Knowledge, demanding Action, and guaranteeing sustainable transformative Change inside our firm, throughout our business companions and within the communities we serve.
“Mary Kay has operated with an intention to challenge the status quo since its inception, opening doors for women and diverse groups since 1963. We believe the private sector has a fundamental role to play in bringing about social change. Through our corporate actions, we are committed to advancing diversity and ensuring inclusivity in our company. We recognize the fight for equality stretches beyond our walls which is why we champion efforts in communities we touch around the globe,” stated Julia A. Simon, Chief Legal and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Mary Kay.
Company Statement on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Our Position
As a worldwide firm, we consider our range is a power which fosters innovation and progress. We try to guide by our founding values and function, celebrating range, and cultivating an inclusive office and society for practically 60 years.
Founded by a girl who defied her period’s gender norms and broke obstacles at a time when barely a 3rd of American girls have been within the workforce, DEI is on the coronary heart of Mary Kay’s mission to advance girls’s financial empowerment and gender equality.
Internally, we’re dedicated to advancing range and guaranteeing everybody has a voice in our firm. Present in practically 40 markets, we consider DEI is vital to how we function, and over time, we’ve taken concerted measures to combine DEI as a core technique to our business progress. We search to create an atmosphere the place people can specific and share completely different ideas, experiences and views guaranteeing they really feel seen, heard, and revered.
Our 10-year Sustainability Strategy, Enriching Lives Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow, pursues a holistic method to DEI and is centered round three elementary ideas: Knowledge, Action, and Change.
Through concrete steps and partnerships, we’re constantly working towards realizing a extra inclusive, various and equitable tradition in our firm and in our communities. We are dedicated to supporting DEI efforts and reaching our purpose to understanding by means of data, demanding motion, and guaranteeing sustainable long-lasting change by means of the next inner focus areas:
Advancing DEI at Mary Kay
- Employee Training & Engagement
- Diverse Product Portfolio
- Supplier Diversity & Inclusive Procurement
- Social Risks within the Supply Chain
Women’s Representation and Leadership
Leading by instance and reflecting our perception within the worth of elevated girls’s illustration and management within the office, Mary Kay is placing our values and commitments into motion:
(Data from August 2022)
- 62% Global Workforce are Women
- 54% Executive Team are Women; 38% are BIPOC
- 53% Vice Presidents and above are Women
- 57% Directors and above are Women
- 59% Managers and above are Women
- 70% Market Leaders are Women
- 60% of the management positions in our Top 10 Markets are held by Women
Gender-Responsive Procurement & Supplier Diversity
(U.S. solely provide chain knowledge from February 2021)
- 66% of our Procurement Team are Women
- 12% of our Indirect Suppliers are Women, Minority or Veteran-Owned
- 5% of our Direct Suppliers are Women, Minority or Veteran-Owned
Employee Retention
- 41% of Global Mary Kay staff have been with the corporate for over 10 years
- 47% of U.S. Mary Kay staff have been with the corporate for over 10 years
Alignment with Global Standards
In 2019, Mary Kay signed the Women’s Empowerment Principles and in 2021 the corporate grew to become a Commitment Maker to the Generation Equality Forum Action Coalitions to speed up progress on gender equality to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. Recognizing the necessity to preserve transferring ahead, Mary Kay is collaborating within the 2022-2023 UN Global Compact Target Gender Equality Accelerator Programme to proceed the implementation of formidable company targets for ladies’s illustration and management within the firm and in our provide chain.
Addressing Gender and Racial Disparities
We know the combat for equality stretches past our partitions which is why we assist efforts in our communities to fight racial and gender disparities. Through our exterior partnerships and collaborations, we’re dedicated to addressing racism and discrimination, and pursue an intersectional method centered on dismantling the obstacles to alternatives for ladies and women from minority backgrounds.
Impact Support by means of our External Partnerships
- Addressing gender-based violence
- Strengthening girls’s management and participation
- Promoting fairness in instructional alternatives
- Addressing bias in rising applied sciences
- Advancing entrepreneurial alternatives for ladies
We are increasing our partnerships to create an enabling ecosystem for ladies entrepreneurs, together with under-represented minority girls, by strengthening gender-responsive procurement, and bridging the gender digital divide by means of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator. With the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s World Series of Innovation, we’re supporting rising younger social entrepreneurs aged 13-24 to handle a selected SDG or twenty first century business problem. Joining forces with the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge, we’re advancing social and gender responsive entrepreneurship; and we’re contributing to localizing the Sustainable Development Goals by means of rural girls’s entrepreneurship in creating contexts in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme.
Through our partnership with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s National Racial Equity Initiative for Social Justice, we’re supporting racial fairness and human rights by means of analysis and public coverage within the context of legal justice reform. To tackle obstacles to instructional alternative, we yearly companion with the Society of Cosmetic Chemists in assist of under-represented minority college students pursuing larger schooling in STEM by means of their Madam C.J. Walker scholarships.
Recognizing the disproportionate influence of violence on girlsand women, we’re responding to the scourge of gender-based violence in conflicts and catastrophe settings by means of our international partnerships with CARE and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence in opposition to Women. We are additionally advancing girls’s illustration and management in public life and in local weather motion by means of our partnerships with the International Women’s Forum and The Nature Conservancy.
Finally, we’re addressing potential gender bias in new applied sciences with the Equal Rights Trust and working to make sure that AI expertise is designed to foster range and inclusion.
For Mary Kay, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion aren’t simply phrases – they’re how we’re capable of ship on our function to complement girls’s lives around the globe. Through our company efforts to attain our DEI commitments and by partnering with change-makers around the globe to handle gender and racial injustices, we’re taking motion and guaranteeing transformative change in our firm, throughout our business companions and within the communities we serve.
ABOUT MARY KAY
One of the unique glass ceiling breakers, Mary Kay Ash based her dream magnificence firm in 1963 with one purpose: enriching girls’s lives. That dream has blossomed right into a multibillion-dollar firm with thousands and thousands of unbiased gross sales drive members in practically 40 international locations. As an entrepreneurship improvement firm, Mary Kay is dedicated to empowering girls on their journey by means of schooling, mentorship, advocacy, networking, and innovation. Mary Kay is devoted to investing within the science behind magnificence and manufacturing cutting-edge skincare, colour cosmetics, dietary dietary supplements, and fragrances. Mary Kay believes in enriching lives as we speak for a sustainable tomorrow, partnering with organizations from around the globe focusing on selling business excellence, supporting most cancers analysis, advancing gender equality, defending survivors of home abuse, beautifying our communities, and encouraging kids to comply with their desires. Learn extra at marykayglobal.com, discover us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn, or comply with us on Twitter.
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