![A female Amazon employee smiles while handling a machine in a fulfilment centre](https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/cd3c42e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1200x800+0+0/resize/300x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2F44%2F5a%2Fbecf1f914f4abb6c2bda4972338b%2Funp-amazon-39762-naw-euk5-sunha-zulfiqar-013.JPG)

### Creating a workplace that is inclusive

Amazon’s ability to innovate on behalf of our customers relies on the perspectives and knowledge of people from all backgrounds.

We believe that building a culture that is welcoming and inclusive is integral to people doing their best work and is essential to what we can achieve as a company. We actively recruit people from diverse backgrounds to build a supportive and inclusive workplace. We take steps to ensure employees have a sense of belonging, value, and opportunity. This includes publishing our [Gender Pay Gap](https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/amazons-gender-pay-gap-results) for our total UK workforce each year.

Our partnerships with universities, institutions and colleges allow us to hire candidates from a range of educational and socio-economic backgrounds. We also have initiatives that focus on gender diversity and inclusion, building skills for tech leaders from diverse backgrounds, empowering the next generation with opportunities in STEM programmes, celebrating our LGBTQ+ community, military initiatives and more.

![A large diverse group posing together at the 'Together at Amazon' event](https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/6fe46bc/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6016x4011+0+3/resize/300x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2Fda%2F40%2Fb931965644dbbfa4888bd1fdec7e%2Ftogether-at-amazon-summit-58.jpg)

### Helping employees advocate for themselves and others

We have many employee-led groups with more than 87,000 employees across hundreds of chapters around the world. These include:

- AmazonPWD (People with disabilities)
- Amazon Women in Engineering
- Asians at Amazon
- BEN (Black Employee Network)
- Connect @ Amazon
- Families at Amazon
- Glamazon
- Inclusion Ambassadors
- Latinos at Amazon
- Mental Health and Well-Being
- Warriors at Amazon
- Women at Amazon

![Shipra Singh named Woman of the Year at the everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards](https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/a1d6165/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1000x667+0+0/resize/300x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2Fb2%2Fd5%2F64c1dc0843119d676522e348d846%2F53009759236-fb94ac4ddd-k1.jpg)

### Leading the way 

We partner with campaigns and charities, and are members of networks, that align with our vision to serve the diverse communities where we operate.

We are proud partners of [WISE](https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/), a high-profile campaign which aims to increase the participation, contribution and success of women in science, engineering and technology. As a member of [Business in the Community (BITC)](http://www.bitc.org.uk/), part of the Prince of Wales’ Responsible Business Network, Amazon supports the [gender equality campaign](http://gender.bitc.org.uk/about-opportunity-now) to maximise women’s success at work.

![UA Exhibition in Tilbury](https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/80be892/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1420x947+0+4/resize/300x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2F2f%2Fca%2F462ebcbc4456bd5c184e877724f4%2Fua-exhibition-in-tilbury.jpg)

- [How Amazon employees celebrated the 75th anniversary of Windrush Day](https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/how-employees-from-amazons-black-employee-network-came-together-to-mark-the-75th-anniversary-of-windrush-day)