At The Estée Lauder Companies we are committed to advancing women both within our organization and around the world. At ELC, we now see a workforce of 80 percent women with over 50 percent of women at leadership levels. Almost half of our Board of Directors are women. We believe all genders should have equal access to job opportunities and positions of leadership, including access to the tools and support to help them achieve their goals, and believe that all genders deserve equal access to health, education and economic participation, and should be presented an equal playing field. We are committed to giving women and girls access to the proper tools and skills needed to become successful and create lasting change.

To that end, we are part of the United Nations Foundation’s Five for 5 Initiative and developed a set of commitments aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goal 5, centered around achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls, with an end goal of 2025. Through the Five for 5 initiatives, we plan to address three specific goals: equality of leadership, equality of opportunity and equality of access to health and education. Additionally, we have centered our 2021 strategy around our new initiative “Opening Doors: Women’s Advancement and Gender Equality.” This initiative will allow ELC to not only honor our history but also level the playing field for all genders by furthering our strong culture rooted in inclusion and diversity, advocacy, flexibility and engagement.

In the UK & Ireland, alongside our brand social investments, we are committed to championing breast health via our Breast Cancer Campaign, addressing hygiene poverty through donating tens of thousands of personal care and hygiene essentials to Beauty Banks, promoting children’s literacy co-created programmes with the National Literacy Trust, and empowering young women via our Young Women’s Trust and Prince’s Trust grants.