BSR Insight | Embedding Gender in Sustainability Reporting: A Practitioner’s Guide
The International Finance Corporation and Global Reporting Initiative's practitioner's guide covers trends, stakeholder perspectives, and recommendations for how companies can embed gender in sustainability measurement, policies, and reporting in the following areas:
- Organizational governance and values: Promote and measure gender equality, board member diversity, and management diversity and equality.
- Workplace: Create a fair and equal work environment, especially related to wages, job opportunities, human resources, health and safety, and grievance mechanisms.
- Supply chain: Require suppliers to comply with basic standards of gender equality, and seek opportunities to promote women's entrepreneurship in your sourcing practices.
- Community: Contribute to the well-being of women and families in communities where company production, marketing, and sales practices have impacts.
- Consumers: Create advertising that speaks equally to men and women, and ensure equality for customer service and complaint procedures.
- Investment: Leverage gender reporting among sustainability and mainstream investors and promote shareholder diversity.
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