HeForShe transcript

HeForShe is a fantastic initiative that was launched by the UN. Basically it’s encouraging boys and men to support girls and women, to have fantastic careers, a fair crack at education and opportunity.

Why is gender equality important? Because why would anyone want gender inequality. Why would you want something so dumb?

I’ve never been accepting of or understanding why a man can do something and I can’t.

Literally

You know that’s how I’ve lived my life, and I want the generations after us and any children I may have to believe that’s the case as well.

As a junior employee, it’s so important to feel supported, to feel valued and to feel like you’re able to thrive and reach your full potential.

It’s not easy to operate in life, when there is a sense of imbalance or a sense of unfairness.

This is about saying, let’s have a level playing field and let everybody have choice, being inclusive in diverse teams and being the best that we can be.

This helps us in every part of our work to get the best people, doing the coolest stuff, with the best ideas.

I have challenged double standards within internal meetings and meetings with the client and also especially in my social environment.

I feel like we need role models in the top level, to guide us, to help us.

It is good to have women in these positions, and have them being role models to younger women.

You’ve got to make people understand, or help people understand what they can achieve, paint the picture for them so they’ve got something to be inspired about.

I’m trying to get as many of my peers, my team members and senior leaders that I work with to make their own HeForShe commitment.

My HeForShe commitment is to make sure that men are welcome and included in the debate…

To keep the conversation going…

I’m committed to change the gender balance ratio...

To make diversity the number one strategic priority...

To challenge double standards….

To challenge the stereotypes and to help mobilise men to support the HeForShe movement…

My commitment is I will really support men being way more open about their emotions…

To be brave, to continue the conversation and call out bad behaviour…

To help people understand that gender equality is good for everyone.

I am HeForShe