A pledge for gender balance across defence
The UK's defence sector is making a commitment to work together
to build a more gender balanced environment by launching a
Charter for Women. The Ministry of Defence welcomes the
initiative that recognises more needs to be done to enhance the
gender balance in the sector. Organisations that sign up to this
Charter are committing to be the very best at driving equity,
inclusion and diversity within their organisations and providing
fair opportunities for women to succeed at all levels.
The Charter reflects the aspiration to see women represented and
succeeding at all levels across the defence enterprise. A
balanced workforce is good for government and good for business,
good for customers and consumers, for profitability and workplace
culture, for promoting prosperity and stability, and for showing
everyone matters in building stronger and more peaceful
communities.
The Charter:
- recognises the diversity of the sector and that organisations
will have different starting points - each organisation should
therefore set its own targets, where appropriate, and implement
the right strategy for them.
- aims to enable women to thrive, enhancing the individual and
collective impact of women across defence and in doing so,
improving the diversity of thought in decision making and overall
output of defence.
My organisation commits to promote gender diversity and inclusion
by:
- having an empowered member of the senior executive team who
is responsible for signing the charter
- setting internal targets, where appropriate, for gender
diversity in all levels of our organisation and in all functional
areas
- having an intention to ensure the pay or the objectives of a
senior executive are linked to delivery of any internal targets
on gender inclusion and diversity
- supporting the progression of women into senior roles in the
defence sector by focusing on the executive pipeline and the mid
and lower-tier levels across the full spectrum of roles within my
organisation
- providing data annually to the Women in Defence UK Charter
for anonymised use in the Women in Defence UK Charter Annual
Report.
