Today, we join the rest of the world to celebrate International Women’s Day. This year’s campaign theme #InspireInclusion promotes a gender equal world, free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. At Tiger Brands, we embrace an organisation that is diverse, equitable, inclusive and nurtures a sense of belonging for all our people. We nurture a Tiger where our differences are valued and celebrated and where the tapestry of our diversity is a great catalyst for winning performance and innovation.
Our commitment to inspire inclusion by igniting, growing, and nurturing our female talent is demonstrated in our gender representation figures:
45% Females represented at Senior Leadership
42% Females represented at Mid-level Leadership
52% Females represented on Leadership Development Programmes
42% Leadership moves (internal, promotions, external appointments)
80% Apprenticeships
68% Interns
65% Workplace Experience Students (WES)
90% Future Leaders
As of February, the female representation among the 168 Young Talent Tigers demonstrated above shows our talent pipeline and the commitment to nurture and grow our own people.
While IWD amplifies awareness and action over March, at Tiger Brands we maintain a deep and continuous focus on equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging all year round.
To date, we have implemented progressive policies, practices, benefits, and enabling mechanisms to transform our culture and ignite talent to ensure women's careers can thrive through mechanisms that:
• Value and support flexible working arrangements
• Provide formal avenues to address any concerns of bias
• Ensure women's inclusion from supply chain through to decision-making
• Ensure marketing and communications are free of stereotyping
• Monitor progress and outcomes from our diversity, equity and inclusion actions
• Create engagement through our Tiger Women’s Network, which aims to raise awareness about discrimination and helps drive gender parity
• Promote gender equity through our commitment to achieving our Employment Equity goals
• Recognise and celebrate our own Inspiring women across Tiger Brands
We love celebrating the work and achievements of Tiger women, who inspire and ignite others to achieve their full potential. In line with our purpose of “nurturing and nourishing lives” our leaders are committed to our continuous growth and transformation as a fit-for-future organisation.
Together we can ignite gender parity. Collectively we can all #InspireInclusion.