L'Oréal's chief responsibility officer on why women should help design the world

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L'Oréal's chief responsibility officer shares how she's making sure women have more of a say in designing the world

In a world where men often dominate, Alexandra Palt has had no trouble finding her place and her role.This society was built by men for men — and even in fields that we considered neutral or objective, such as science. So that led, of course, to a world that was invented by male scientists for men, by male governance, for [an average] population," Palt told Insider.

When you look even in the United States, you know, in the beginning, computer science — programming computers was considered a not very interesting job. So in this not-very-interesting job, you had a lot of women, and you had a lot of African American women. And as soon as it became clear that computers might be the future and an interesting job, women were kicked out of these jobs, and they left the jobs in the '60s and '70s.

I think that criticism was very justified and very relevant. But then a lot of work has been done and is going on in order to serve the needs of everybody. I think the most interesting thing is that you have to understand that you are always in movement, always in a new crisis, and that it never stops and so that you cannot have the time to sit down and say,"Oh, I've overcome a challenge. Now I'm fine."I think it's more a state of mind than one challenge overcome — and I'm the woman I am.

How do you work to make sure that the initiatives L'Oréal launches aren't just performative or only focused on key performance indicators? How do you make sure there's more behind them and that they're lasting? We have science-based targets. And we always work based on science-based targets related to carbon, related to water, related to biodiversity, and resource utilization.

 

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