WorldSkills backs HeForShe

WorldSkills is proud to formally endorse HeForShe – a solidarity movement for gender equality, led by the United Nations. WorldSkills is joined by Members of WorldSkills across the globe, in backing this vital push for gender equality in vocational education and skilled professions.

As a global movement that promotes access to vocational skills, WorldSkills believes that skills have no gender and that it is time that inequality in the workplace is eradicated.

WorldSkills also believes that governments around the world must do more to remove inequality in the workplace. Recent analysis by the World Economic Forum showed that there are considerable gaps between female and male access to economic resources and opportunities. The degree of these inequalities varies from country-to-country but wherever they live women consistently earn less, have fewer jobs, and are in less senior roles than men.

HeForShe is a global campaign that was launched by UN Women to engage men and boys as advocates and stakeholders, to break the silence, raise their voices, and take action for the achievement of gender equality. 

63 WorldSkills Members support HeForShe:

Armenia; Australia; Austria; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium; Bangladesh; Brazil; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; China; Chinese Taipei; Colombia; Costa Rica; Denmark; Egypt; Estonia; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Hong Kong, China; Kazakhstan; Croatia; Hungary; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Iran; Ireland; Jamaica; Japan; Kingdom of Bahrain; Korea; Latvia; Malaysia; Mongolia; Morocco; Namibia; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Oman; Palestine; Poland; Portugal; Principality of Liechtenstein; Romania; Russia; Singapore; South Africa; South Tyrol, Italy; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Thailand; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States of America; Vietnam; and Zambia