Emma Watson and HeForShe at Devon 2016

Yesterday, followers of Emma Watson’s Twitter would have received many phone notifications as Watson faithfully updated her Twitter with news from HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10’s first gender parity report, which was released at Devon 2016. A full report of yesterdays events at Devon have been uploaded to the new HeForShe website.

The Devon launch was for the first HeForShe IMPACT parity report, complied by 10 of the world’s leading business. The report gave diversity figures in the workforce, and stated goals that need to be altered and achieved. The report reflected the journey these companies have taken to implement gender equality, what they plan to do next, and encourage other companies to do the same. The entire report may be read here.

The ten CEOs of the companies that made this report are 10 of 30 HeForShe Champions the IMPACT 10x10x10 campaign have recruited. These 10 CEOs stand among 10 world heads of state, and 10 heads of the world’s leading universities.

At the Devon 2016 report launch, the 10 CEOs and 3 representatives from the university team made up a panel that discussed the report. The introductions, panel discussion, and Emma Watson’s speech can be seen below. Emma begins at time marker 18:07.

HeForShe.org reported:

“HeForShe launched the IMPACT 10x10x10 initiative at Davos in January 2015. Now one year later, we have built a cohort of dedicated gender equality leaders from ten of the world’s most prominent corporations – AccorHotels, Barclays, Koc? Holding, McKinsey & Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Schneider Electric, Tupperware Brands, Twitter, Unilever and Vodafone. This global team of champions has committed to real change within and beyond their own institutions, on an ambitious timeline. The transparency displayed in the HeForShe Parity Report will provide an important tool to Corporate IMPACT Champions to measure commitments and inspire action from other employers.

The report figures show that a gap remains between the representation of women in the workforce and in leadership positions. Overall representation of women averaged 39.7% across the ten firms, while senior leadership roles held by women ranged from 11.0% to 33.0%. While this outperforms global averages, UN Women has set parity as the goal of its Planet 50-50 drive for gender equality, and the IMPACT commitments put forward by these firms reflect a variety of pathways to achieve it.“

A short animated informational and promotional video of HeForShe’s plans for Devon 2016. It can be seen at the bottom of the HeForShe page.