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PRINCIPLES
WOMENS
EQUALITY MEANS BUSINESS
UN WOMEN
UNITED NATIONS
GLOBAL COMPACT
Equality
Means
Business
and advocacy.
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Measure and publicly report on progress
to achieve gender equality.
Acknowledgements
Publication Design: Kathi Rota
The Womens Empowerment Principles Equality Means Business initiative, launched in March 2010,
is grateful to many stakeholders from business, civil society, international organizations and governments
for their engagement enabling the effort to take root in many companies and constituencies.
The Womens Empowerment Principles partnership team consists of:
EMPOWERMENT
PRINCIPLES
WOMENS
UN WOMEN
UNITED NATIONS
GLOBAL COMPACT
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Provide equal opportunities
equality and inclusion.
for formal and informal Respect the dignity of women Transparency,
networking and mentoring. in all marketing and other
company materials.
Measuring and
Articulate the companys
business case for womens Ensure that company products, Reporting
empowerment and the services and facilities are not Make public the company
positive impact of inclusion used for human trafficking and/ policies and implementation
for men as well as women. or labour or sexual exploitation. plan for promoting gender
equality.
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Establish benchmarks that
Community quantify inclusion of women at
Leadership and all levels.
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education professionals to
Leadership Equal offer trainings to employees
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company reaches out to youth
through education projects to
running small and medium-
sized enterprises. Transparency,
break down the barriers that
traditionally limit women to
A Swedish manufacturer Measuring and
certain jobs in the industry and
helps women producers of
raw materials in developing
Reporting
men to others. A mid-sized Israeli fashion
countries to trade directly
A large financial services with the manufacturer, thus company became the first of
company in Australia offers improving their income by its size in Israel to voluntarily
numerous initiatives aimed at reducing the number of publicize a Social and
supporting women in business, intermediaries in the supply Environmental Responsibility
including an online platform chain. Report reflecting its
to help Australian women commitment to gender equality.
To make the scope of violence
connect with other women in A Spanish financial institution
against women visible to an
business internationally to share publicizes its commitment to
international public, a global
information, research and career equal opportunity and inclusion
advertising company partnered
advice. on its website and regularly
with a UN organization to
A Chinese international develop a public awareness undergoes external equality
transport company established campaign using television and diagnostics validated by an
special employee committees to the internet. autonomous government body.
identify and design programmes A South African mining
and information tailored to the
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company includes a detailed
distinct needs and interests of
female workers.
Community breakdown of employment
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Has the company designed flex-
Leadership Equal Opportunity, ible work options that incorporate
3 Health, Safety
Establish a high-level task force promotion, salaries and benefits.
to identify priority areas, establish Design recruitment initiatives that
benchmarks and monitor reach out to more women. and Freedom
company progress. Review and analyze remuneration from Violence
Include company-wide goals of all employees by gender,
Prominently publicize the
for progress towards gender employee category and job title.
company's zero tolerance policy
equality in job descriptions and Ensure equal opportunities for and provide ongoing training.
performance reviews. women to lead on important
Undertake a gender-sensitive
assignments and task forces.
Things to consider inventory of health and safety
Is the stated commitment to Survey employees to elicit conditions.
advancing equality and promoting the views of women and men
Survey employees to elicit the
nondiscrimination and fairness towards company policies on
views of women and men on
prominently featured on the equal opportunity, inclusion,
health, safety and security issues.
companys website, in company nondiscrimination and retention.
recruiting materials and corporate Tailor company health and safety
Establish and implement a
sustainability reports? policies to serve the distinctive
confidential grievance policy
concerns and needs of women
Is there a designated board-level and procedure for incidents of
and men, including pregnant
individual who champions the discrimination, sexual harassment
women, people with HIV/AIDs,
organizations gender equality and gender-based violence. people with disabilities and other
policies and plans? vulnerable groups and provide the
Things to consider
Are there trainings, including for Is there a gender breakdown of resources to implement them.
male leaders, on the importance the companys board of directors
of womens participation and Things to consider
and top management? Is safety and other equipment the
inclusion?
Does the company track and appropriate size for both women
Does the companys annual
analyze promotions by gender, and men?
report or sustainability report employee category and title?
include leadership statements on Are there separate toilets and, if
Are fair pay reviews conducted on necessary, changing facilities for
reaching gender equality goals?
a regular basis? both women and men?
Progress Are company grounds adequately
champion within the organization
to target women-owned enterpris-
es and help develop their capacity
to become quality suppliers.
Request information from current
Craft a community impact
analysis that marks the specific
impacts on women and girls
when establishing or expanding
presence in a community.
lit? and potential suppliers on their
Things to consider
Are female health care gender and diversity policies
What initiatives are supported by
professionals available in and include these in criteria for
the company to promote equality
company-provided health business selection.
in the community and how many
services? women and girls, men and boys
Things to consider
do they reach?
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Does the company perform
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Things to consider and other public materials, and how
What is the distribution between does it act on these concerns? Transparency,
women and men of training
and professional development Measuring and
6 Community Reporting
opportunities?
How many hours of training do
women and men participate Leadership and Report annually, by department,
on company gender equality plans
in annually, analyzed by job Engagement and policies, using established
category and title? benchmarks.
Define company community
Are the demands of employees engagement initiatives that Publicize findings on company
family roles considered when empower women and girls. efforts towards inclusion and
scheduling trainings and advancing women through all
Encourage company executives
education programmes? appropriate channels and pre-
to undertake community
consultations with local leaders existing reporting obligations.
We, business leaders from across the globe, express support for Global Compact. The Principles present seven steps that business
advancing equality between women and men to: and other sectors can take to advance and empower women.
Bring the broadest pool of talent to our endeavours; Equal treatment of women and men is not just the right thing to
do it is also good for business.
Further our companies competitiveness;
The full participation of women in our enterprises and in the larger
Meet our corporate responsibility and sustainability community makes sound business sense now and in the future. A
commitments; broad concept of sustainability and corporate responsibility that
Model behaviour within our companies that reflects the society embraces womens empowerment as a key goal will benefit us all.
we would like for our employees, fellow citizens and families; The seven steps of the Womens Empowerment Principles will help
Encourage economic and social conditions that provide us realize these opportunities.
opportunities for women and men, girls and boys; and We encourage business leaders to join us and use the Principles
as guidance for actions that we can all take in the workplace,
Foster sustainable development in the countries in which we
marketplace and community to empower women and benefit our
operate. companies and societies. We will strive to use sex-disaggregated
Therefore, we welcome the provisions of the Womens data in our sustainability reporting to communicate our progress to
Empowerment Principles Equality Means Business, produced and our own stakeholders.
disseminated by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and
Please join us.
the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the United Nations
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PRINCIPLES
WOMENS
EQUALITY MEANS BUSINESS
UN WOMEN
UNITED NATIONS
GLOBAL COMPACT
W e need all stakeholders, and in particular, we need solid linkages with the
private sector, as drivers of innovation, providers of essential capital, job creators
and employers. UN Women together with the UN Global Compact launched
the Womens Empowerment Principles to do just that providing a seven-
step blueprint to empower women in the workplace, the marketplace and the
community. They offer a tool for a results-based partnership with the global and
national business community, and they align with the evidence that empowering
women is a strategy for a healthier bottom line.
michellE Bachelet, Executive Director, UN Women
The Womens Empowerment Principles, the product of a partnership between UN Women and the UN Global Compact informed by an
international multi-stakeholder consultation, are adapted from the Calvert Womens Principles. The Calvert Womens Principles were
originally developed in partnership with UNIFEM (now a part of UN Women) and launched in 2004 as the first global corporate code of
conduct focused exclusively on empowering, advancing and investing in women worldwide.