How can all succeed if many are held back?

What do women want? Equal pay. Access to education. The eradication of forced marriages. To not have to teach their daughters how to walk home at night, keys clutched in hand. Think only women want to live this way? No. We can, and must make the world a better place for women – for everyone.

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How #TOGETHERBAND supports gender equality

With the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative (BJKLI)

#TOGETHERBAND supports charities and organizations such as the BJKLI by raising awareness around what they do, as well as funding through band sales.

What they do: The Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative is committed to promoting equality and inclusion and advocates equal pay for equal work. The foundation holds three pillars: Lift, Learn, and Lead, and collaborates with companies to increase diverse opportunities at all corporate levels.

Their aim: Achieve leadership that is inclusive and that leads to significant changes in how men and women operate in the world

Read about grantees working towards other goals

See who’s passionate about this goal

 

Billie Jean King

Sports icon, civil rights advocate, founder of BJK Leadership Initiative, #TOGETHERBAND ambassador for Goal 5

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Jameela Jamil

Activist and founder of I Weigh, #TOGETHERBAND ambassador for Goal 5

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Show your passion too with #TOGETHERBAND

17 Goals, 17 Bands. This one represents SDG 5 Gender equality. When you buy a pack you actually receive two bands - One to wear as a symbol of support, one to share to spread the word.

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Building a fairer world with every investment

Across the firm, we are seeing clients turn to us for advice on how they can finance the transition to a lower-carbon economy, support sustainable finance and better tackle twenty-first century risks.

That's why we've put together goal-specific insights from across our business divisions; Global Wealth Management, Asset Management and Investment Banking, to help you answer the question – Do your investments match your values?

Read from our UBS experts

  • Read in our Investor Watch how women worldwide engage with their finances.
  • Wonder how gender diversity could improve investor returns? Find out more

Insights from UBS Global Wealth Management

Insights from UBS Asset Management

Get to know the women in economics

The UBS Global Visionaries tackling this goal

WOMEN: New Portraits by Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz's most enduringly popular series of photographs WOMEN was published in 1999. The new series WOMEN: New Portraits, commissioned by UBS, features women of outstanding achievement including artists, musicians, politicians, writers and philanthropists. The new photographs were shown in 10 cities worldwide from January 2016 to February 2017 and joined the UBS Art Collection.

Relive the exhibition and discover tour highlights from all over the world in exclusive behind the scenes footage here.

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#WOMENxUBS by @AnnieLeibovitz

Stories from UBS in Society

1 https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/ visited in February 2020

2 https://www.ubs.com/global/en/ubs-society/our-stories/2019/gender-equality.html?UBSShomepage visited in February 2020

3 http://uis.unesco.org/en/blog/data-celebrate-50-years-progress-girls-education visited in February 2020

UBS joined forces with BOTTLETOP to create #TOGETHERBAND to raise money for selected charities. Bottletop and UBS Financial Services Inc. are not affiliated.

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