Sustainability For Our For Our Creating Value For the For Our Managing Appendix at MetLife Workforce Customers as an Investor Environment Communities Responsibly EVERY ONE OF US PARTICIPATES IN SHAPING OUR INCLUSIVE CULTURE WE ARE COMMITTED TO CLOSING THE GENDER EQUITY GAP From the use of MetLife’s voice externally in the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act and our signature on the Business Statement on Anti-LGBTQ State Legislation, We focus on five areas to advance gender to our Inclusion Begins with Me training and our EXCELERATE program, we believe that the equity—leadership, workforce, marketplace, power of inclusive culture comes from our collective and individual actions. community and sustainability. Through the Gender Equity Initiative, we support our • The Human Rights Campaign’s Business • EXCELERATE, MetLife’s CEO-driven talent commitment to the UN Women’s Empowerment Coalition for the Equality Act supports federal sponsorship program, focuses on accelerating Principles, UN SDGs and the UNGC’s gender legislation that would provide the same basic the progression of ethnic-, racial- and gender- equality accelerator program. protections to LGBTQ+ people that are provided diverse leaders. MetLife joined the UNGC “Target Gender to other groups protected under federal law. • The program serves underrepresented groups Equality” initiative, giving the company access • The Business Statement on Anti-LGBTQ across 27 countries and increases visibility, to facilitated performance analysis, capacity State Legislation reinforces our opposition access and engagement with MetLife’s building workshops, peer-to-peer learning and to legislation aimed at restricting access Executive Leadership Team. multistakeholder dialogue at the country level. and rights for LGBTQ+ people. We are also members of the Gender and • 22% of participants have new or expanded Diversity KPI Alliance and partner with • Inclusion Begins with Me, our blueprint to responsibilities or have been promoted WEConnect International, a global supplier champion inclusion, expands our understanding thus far. network that provides members with greater of ourselves and each other. This key resource is access to women-owned businesses. the foundation for all employees to learn the role we each play in shaping our culture: • 93% of our global employees have completed the Inclusion Begins with Me three-part series; • 86% of people leaders completed inclusive AT METLIFE, WOMEN MAKE UP leadership development; and 52% 25% 41% 50% • 16 teams globally participated in INDEAVOR, a six-month interactive experience where teams of our workforce of our Executive of our managers of our strategic apply inclusive behaviors and build habits that Leadership Team advisory group foster greater trust and collaboration. 2021 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 20