Endnotes 1. World Economic Forum, Chief Economist Outlook, 2024, https://www.weforum.org/publications/chief-economists- outlook-september-2024/. 2. World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2024 3. World Health Organization (WHO), Ageing and health, 2024. 4. This includes proprietary datasets such as the World Economic Forum’s Executive Opinion Survey and Future of Jobs Survey, as well as external sources such as Seramount’s Inclusion Index 5. World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report, 2023. 6. Dobbin Frank and Alexandra Kalev, Getting to Diversity, Harvard University Press 7. E.g. Global Gender Gap Report 2024, Figure 2.7 and Table 2.1. 8. These numbers reflect Accenture and excludes Avanade and recent acquisitions during fiscal 2024, ended 31 August 2024. 9. Ziegler, Marco and Christine Rauh, Visible Growth, Invisible Fears, Accenture, 2020. 10. World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report 2024, 2024. 11. International Labor Organization (ILO), Statistics in the Americas, November, 2024 12. This is calculated by dividing the total number of women hired in a year by the total number of women trained in the same year. 13. The ratio of people hired after the programme to the total number of people trained in the programme. 14. CHANGE refers to Changinging Healthcare for people of African ancestry through an InterNational Genomics and Equity. 15. This is trending towards a utilization of 12–13 weeks (60-65%), considering that new parents have up to one year to use their full entitlement. 16. Takes into account some markets having statutory maternity provisions that are higher than the 20-week parental leave minimum. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lighthouses 2025 43

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