De Beers extends support with WomEng

As part of International Women’s Day celebration, De Beers Group has extended its partnership with WomEng for a further three years.

WomEng is a social enterprise developing women and girls for the engineering and tech industry.

Founded in 2006, it has worked across 24 countries to support partners delivering on diversity and inclusion mandates.

“Women remain significantly under-represented in engineering and technology fields globally.

We are delighted to be building on the success we have already achieved with WomEng, who have been an exceptional partner to work with as we seek to deliver our mutual goals.

“By extending our partnership, we will provide more talented women and girls’ access to opportunities, mentorship, and the confidence to pursue rewarding careers.

We have an ambitious commitment to achieve gender parity across our global workforce by 2030 and key to achieving this will be fostering greater diversity within the talent pipeline,” said Senior Vice President, Sustainable Impact, De Beers Group, Katie Fergusson.

De Beers will roll-out WomEng’s Emerging Leader Programme within its own business to help support, retain and promote women in technical roles as it works towards achieving gender parity across its global workforce as part of its UN Women HeForShe Alliance commitment.

In addition, De Beers will work with WomEng to support women-founded engineering and technology businesses in the company’s host countries that are focused on addressing critical sustainability challenges.

“We are ecstatic to continue building on the work we have done through our partnership with De Beers.

“It takes an ecosystem approach to support diversity, equity and inclusion within the engineering industry and it’s incredible to work with a partner who understands this, and who supports us in developing women and girls for bright futures in the sector,” said Co-Founder, WomEng, Naadiya Moosajee.