Women in defence charter
Updated 11 June 2025
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A pledge for gender balance across defence
The UK바카라 사이트™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, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the 바카라 사이트 Equalities Office welcome the initiative that recognises more needs to be done to improve gender balance in the sector.
Organisations that sign up to this charter are committing to be the very best at driving 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, business, 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 for Women:
- commits organisations to supporting the progression of women into senior roles in the defence sector by focusing on the executive pipeline and the mid-tier level
- 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
- requires organisations to publicly report on progress to deliver against any internal targets to support the transparency and accountability needed to drive change
- aims to enable women to thrive, enhancing the individual and collective impact of women across defence and in doing so, improving the 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 objectives of a senior executive are linked to the 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