L'Oréal - 2018 Registration Document

L’Oréal’s corporate social, environmental and societal responsibility POLICIES, PERFOR MANCE INDICATORS AND RESULTS

In 2018, as part of the Solidarity Sourcing programme, 56,842 economically or socially vulnerable people gained permanent employment.

The L’Oréal Foundation also supports the Médecins du Monde association’s reconstructive surgery operations (Opération Sourire) for children who suffer from congenital malformations and young women who have been victims of acid-throwing attacks. The L’Oréal Foundation allows these people to regain their integrity and return to their community.

A L'Oréal Foundation partnership with Médecins du Monde to put a smile on children’s faces

More than 700 children operated on in 2018 as part of Opération Sourire (Operation Smile)

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Measures for the promotion of women’s rights 3.3.3.5. As an active supporter of the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles, the Group is involved in numerous initiatives aimed not only at improving the situation of women in the private and public spheres, but also at recognising the contribution of women to the advancement of humanity.

The Group’s Code of Ethics and the principles of “Responsible Communication”, which are summarised in an operational brochure distributed worldwide, concern notably the prohibition of stereotypes and degrading images of women. Achieving real gender equality, up to the highest levels of responsibility, is a key challenge for the Company, both to promote a culture of inclusion and to increase L’Oréal’s ability to innovate. The Group therefore ensures that all jobs are accessible to women and men, both at the level of recruitment and with regard to career development possibilities. Special attention is given to pivotal periods such as parenthood. For more information, see under “Guaranteeing and achieving gender equality” in section 3.3.2.6 “Promoting diversity and inclusion”. During supplier audits, L’Oréal also seeks to ensure the absence of discrimination and sexual harassment. To fight against the under-representation of women in the scientific world, in conjunction with Unesco, the L’Oréal Foundation created the L’Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science programme in 1998. This international programme is born of one conviction: the world needs science, and science needs women. That is why the L’Oréal Foundation each year celebrates and promotes five eminent female researchers, one from each of the five continents, whose work exerts an international influence and who are selected on the basis of their world-changing discoveries. Since 1998, 102 prize-winners have been honoured for the excellence of their scientific work, including professors Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ada Yonath and Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard who also received Nobel Prizes. To mark the programme’s 20 th anniversary, the Foundation launched a new initiative, entitled “Men for Women in Science”. The goal is to call on men, who hold 89% of senior science-related positions, to join the fight for greater inclusiveness in science and society. Twenty-five male leaders in the world of science have undertaken, through a charter, to work more closely with their female colleagues to change the system and harness the potential of women scientists for the service of all. Every year, the L’Oréal Corporate Foundation also supports 275 young women scientists who will conduct tomorrow’s science by helping them during their thesis or post-doctoral studies, a pivotal moment. A L’Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science grant is awarded to them at national and regional ceremonies in more than 53 countries.

Responsible communication

Gender equality

Programmes of the L’Oréal Foundation

3,100 women in science from over 117 countries who have received awards and been rewarded since 1998

As part of its Beauty for a Better Life programme, in partnership with local NGOs, the L’Oréal Foundation trains women in very difficult social or economic situations about the beauty industry (hairdressing and make-up), in order to help them to find employment.

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