We pledge to: 

• help women and girls achieve their ambitions 

• value all women and men’s contributions equally 

• create inclusive and flexible culture 

• call for gender-balanced leadership 

• challenge conscious or unconscious bias 

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Help women and girls achieve their ambitions 

• Give development opportunities to women (client engagements, roles, training) 

• Take an active step to help a junior colleague extend her professional network 

• Coach / Mentor women 

• Help women to identify and express their goals and ambitions 

• Help my daughters and nieces believe that anything is possible 

• Support a non-profit organization focusing on the education of girls 

• Coach and support young mothers 

• Telling my daughter every day that there is strictly nothing she can't do just because she's a girl 

Challenge conscious and unconscious bias 

• Keep in mind that biases exist and can influence me 

• Take an implicit association test to identify where I have biases 

• Identify situations in which biases may enter and think twice before acting 

• Challenge preconceptions of what it takes to be a successful leader 

• Ignore rumours when assessing performance and rely on my own experience of the appraisee 

• Think before I give an opinion on someone 

• Challenge my ideas and base my assessments on facts 

Call for gender-balanced leadership 

• Reflect on who I am providing opportunities to (such as networking event, client introductions, client engagements, roles, training) 

• Make sure that the teams/committees I am creating are gender balanced 

• Identify opportunities to take on different responsibilities, and volunteer to do so (for women) 

• Ensure that networking events or strategic meetings that I organise are planned for times that are most convenient to all 

• Ensure equal team composition 

• Take an active step to help junior colleague extend her professional network 

• Provide same opportunities to achieve own objectives for mums and dads 

Value women and men's contributions equally 

• Review the criteria I use for assessing performance/potential and check whether they are gender neutral 

• Make sure that women and men of equal talent are equally positioned 

• Challenge my ideas and base my assessments on facts  

• Ensure that both men and women are included on the teams where appropriate 

• Reflect on who I am providing opportunities to (such as networking event, client introductions, client engagements, roles, training) 

• Include people with a different profile than mine in discussion, decision process, team 

• Allow my husband to be an equal partner at home 

• Make sure that women and men of equal talent are equally positioned 

Create inclusive, flexible cultures 

• Talk to someone whom I don’t normally interact with 

• Ask someone from a different culture/gender/background/business unit out for lunch 

• When working on an issue, seek views from a diverse range of people 

• Reflect on whom I am allocating work to and give it to someone different than my usual choice 

• Support and promote new measures regarding flexibility 

• Expose all team members based on their strengths 

• Make effort to interact with different people 

• Educate my kids with equality and respect values