Inclusion and Diversity

Inclusion, Equity & Diversity

Kimberly-Clark believes each person should be treated with respect and dignity and valued for their unique talents and experiences. Supported by an ongoing commitment from our leaders, we have crafted an intentional, global strategy for inclusion, equity and diversity. Our vision is to use our strength to combat inequities and biases and to help make lives better today and tomorrow—for our people, our consumers, and our communities around the world.

Kimberly-Clark regularly reviews its practices and works to be a more inclusive workplace that reflects a wide range of experiences and perspectives. Kimberly-Clark provides training and activities that are relevant and meaningful to our employees, and our operating regions implement inclusion, equity and diversity programs that we believe are relevant for the local context.

Aspirations and Goals

We believe that creating a sense of belonging is core to our mission of caring and brings more value to our organization as a whole. To better deliver on our mission, we are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion through sustainable practices and programs that encourage recruitment, development, and retention of a diverse workforce (e.g., employee engagement, training and development, and culture building), and by seeking to make progress towards an inclusive and diverse workforce that encompasses the wide variety of diverse experiences and perspectives reflected in the consumers we serve. We remain steadfast in our commitment to cultivate a culture where all are included and empowered to do their best work and where differences are valued and essential for success.

Learn more about our inclusion and diversity performance in our latest Sustainability Report.

Strategy & Approach

At Kimberly-Clark, we approach inclusion, equity and diversity as business strategy to solve for business imperatives and organization challenges. We have one global framework with three strategic focus areas: Workforce, Workplace, and Marketplace. Each business unit and region is empowered to design specific programs aligned to these pillars and to the business needs that are meaningful to accelerate action.

Our Workforce focus area is centered on attracting, retaining, and growing the best talent to progress K-C's strategies, business results, and employer brand. K-C is seeking to make progress towards an inclusive and diverse workforce that encompasses the wide variety of diverse experiences and perspectives reflected in the consumers we serve.

Our Workplace focus area is centered on embedding inclusion, equity and diversity at the frontline, and consciously promoting inclusion to foster a sense of belonging for all. We believe that inclusion is a choice - one that we must make every day to make our winning culture of Purpose Led, Performance Driven stronger, foster the full potential of each person, enable our ways of working, and reflect our consumer needs across our business.

Our Marketplace focus area is centered on promoting and supporting a responsibility agenda that creates community, leverages leadership, empowers employee involvement, and accelerates action. We believe that the benefits of an inclusion, equity, and diversity strategy attract the best talent, drive innovation with our products, amplify our corporate brand, and demonstrate our social impact to help us deliver on our purpose.

See our inclusion & diversity data here.

See our statement on affirmative action and equal opportunity policy here