Pledge for Inclusion and Wellbeing

Sign our Pledge to demonstrate your support for a profession that's inclusive, celebrates diversity, creates a culture of belonging, and supports pharmacy teams’ health and wellbeing.

SIGN OUR PLEDGE

Already signed our pledge, but don’t know how to put it into action? We can help!

Gender EqualityGender Equality

Over 60% of pharmacists are now women, but that’s not reflected at senior leadership level across the profession.

Supporting women in pharmacy to achieve their potential is part of our ambition to create a culture of belonging.

Challenging sexism for future generations

We need to challenge sexism in all areas of live to create a better world for the next generation of pharmacy colleagues.

- Charlotte Bell

Breaking barriers and fuelling equality

It’s important to acknowledge the barriers women face may look quite different depending on their intersecting identities such as race, class, religion, disability and so on. Achieving gender equality will fuel our ability to grow and thrive as a profession.

- Farzana Mohammed

What you can do

We want to listen, learn and create positive change, so the workplace becomes fairer and meets the needs and ambitions of pharmacists everywhere.

Gender microaggressions posterMicroaggressions

Gender based microaggressions are the everyday, subtle, intentional and unintentional interactions or behaviours that communicate bias based on gender. They can have a huge impact on how you feel about yourself, and your career prospects. Find out how to challenge gender microaggressions if you experience them, and how positive micro-affirmations can make all the difference to workplace culture.

Download our free posters on gender microaggressions for your workplace too!

Allyship

An ally is any person that actively promotes and aspires to advance the culture of inclusion through intentional, positive, and conscious efforts that benefit people as a whole. 

RPS President Professor Claire Anderson reflects on the need for allies and mentors, whilst RPS Fellow Ade Williams discusses the role of men as allies and RPS CEO Paul Bennett explains why being an ally is so important.

Breaking barriers

Watch our webinar where we discuss why confidence is key to achieving gender equality in Pharmacy. Hear personal stories and experiences from speakers and how they have built their confidence and perhaps have had to overcome difficult situations which built their confidence and helped them thrive within Pharmacy.

group picture of panel for driving equality for women in pharmacyCatch up with our premier event Driving Equality for Women in Pharmacy and find out how to enhance your skills to be an authentic leader and support your team to reach their potential.

Watch inspiring women in science, technology and digital health face up the challenges they’ve experienced as pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and leaders in our fantastic livestream panels. 

Take a look at a selection of truly outstanding Women to Watch, an initiative from our renowned Pharmaceutical Journal which profiles shining examples of female leadership every year.

Get a historical perspective on the struggles of early pharmacists from our brilliant Museum in their exhibition Celebrating Women in Pharmacy

Listen to some great podcasts on women and gender equality.

Pledge for Inclusion and Wellbeing

ABCD graphicSign our Pledge to demonstrate your support for a profession that's inclusive, celebrates diversity, creates a culture of belonging, and supports pharmacy teams’ health and wellbeing.

SIGN OUR PLEDGE

Already signed our pledge, but don’t know how to put it into action? We can help!

Join our Action in Belonging, Culture and Diversity (ABCD) Group

Our ABCD group is a place to talk through ideas, create change, and build networks across the profession.

At our meetings we hear from people with lived experience and create a culture of belonging, champion inclusive and authentic leadership and challenge barriers to inclusion and diversity:

If you share our passion for inclusion and diversity, get involved!

JOIN THE GROUP

RPS coat of armsWhat we're doing

  • We publish our gender pay gap every year and our action plan to improve this.
  • We’ve reviewed our processes for recruitment, national Board elections, awarding Fellowships and are committed to Equality Impact Assessments on all areas of our work.
  • We collect Equality, Diversity and Inclusion data for of our membership on a yearly basis to understand more about our members and ensure our services are inclusive.
  • We’re working to achieve real and lasting change for pharmacy through challenge, advocacy with our profession, partners and contributors within and outside of pharmacy.

Women’s health inequalities are top of our agenda. Our statement on women’s health outlines how pharmacists and their teams can help improve services provided to women and reduce women’s health inequalities. You can also catch up with our webinar on the menopause in the workplace. 

Our Blogs

You're not alone! Many RPS members have written about their experiences in promoting and fighting for Inclusion and Diversity in pharmacy.

Discover their stories and learn about how their experiences, background and culture have shaped who they are today.

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