Gender Balance

At BHP, we have been committed to improving female representation, and have been measuring our progress, for many years. But 2016 was a pivotal year. Female employee representation across the resources industry was around 16 per cent. At BHP, only 17.6 per cent of our employees were women. Extrapolating our rate of progress at the time, we calculated that it would have taken us decades to achieve gender balance. So, in order to stimulate greater focus and pace, we formally committed to an aspirational goal to achieve gender balance in 2025. We required leaders to develop specific plans and initiate actions to make this goal a reality. And we were mad