Diversity, Inclusion and the Empowerment of Women at Shiseido

More than 80% of Shiseido Group employees are women, and 58.1% of women across our global organization are in leadership positions. Moreover, 40.0% (as of April 2023) of our directors and auditors are women, and the percentage of women in leadership positions in Japan is 37.6% (as of January 2023) . We believe that empowering women can help generate innovation and in turn promote further growth at Shiseido and allow employees to fulfil their potential. As such, we aim to increase this to 50% by 2030 to fairly represent gender equality.
For many years, in Japan we have offered and promoted a range of systems and support measures for women’s life events. Since the early 1990s, even before the introduction of childcare and family care laws, we implemented childcare leave and shortened working hour systems. Specifically, we have opened two in-office childcare facilities—Kangaroom Shiodome in 2003^*1 and Kangaroom Kakegawa in 2017—for Shiseido employees, as well as local businesses and residents. Further, to provide flexible childcare in line with diverse workstyles, in April 2023 we opened Kangaroom+, a comprehensive childcare service offering mainly babysitting services. In addition to ensuring more freedom of time and place by offering one-on-one childcare instead of group childcare, the scope of services will be extended to include elementary school students. The aim is to cater to the problems that parents face when their children enter grade one of elementary school.^*2
Moreover, in 2008 we introduced the Kangaroo Staff program to secure personnel as cover for Shiseido Personal Beauty Partners who are having to work shorter hours due to childcare. In 2022, 721 Kangaroo Staff helped to support the work-life balance of 1,510 Shiseido Beauty Consultants raising young children. As a result of initiatives like these, 94.9% of employees across the Shiseido Group in Japan return to work following childcare leave, and we continue to maintain this high percentage.