Dubai Lynx
DDB DUBAI / UNILEVER / 2019
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Background
In spite of having the same qualifications and background, women in Egypt are half as likely to get a job and enter the workforce. This problem has gone unnoticed for years. And it's the reason why women make up just 20% of the workforce. A statistic that has remained stagnant for years. Unilever supports a gender equal workforce and it wanted to champion this cause and bring it to the fore. It wanted to show that women have as much right to be a part of the workforce as their male counterparts.
Idea
By using the left and right earphones/speakers we able to show how a woman and man with exactly the same background and qualifications applying for a job would face very different outcomes. The man lands the job while his female counterpart is denied. This simple creative device was a powerful way to showcase the problem of gender discrimination in the workforce.
Strategy
Our target audience for this radio spot was the average Egyptian citizen because the problem of gender discrimination in the workforce affects them. It was aired once on Egypt's most popular radio station. More importantly, the radio spot was shared across Unilever's social media channels so that employees were made of aware of the company's position on a gender-equal workforce. Our approach was to convey the problem of gender discrimination in a simple yet effective way so that people understood the barriers women seeking employment were facing.
Outcome
During the months of May and June of 2018, Unilever witnessed a spike in female job applicants for official jobs posted. Female candidates represented 81% and 72% of job applicants compared to their male counterparts. This was a sizeable increase in relation to figures from previous months that were skewed more men than women.
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