International Women’s Day: Women and Sustainability
In the world today, women and girls face many of the greatest challenges, and yet they are critical partners and leaders in promoting sustainable development.
As many global leaders have attested, we believe investing in women carries huge returns for society and business. Moreover, we believe that promoting women’s empowerment is required for stable, just, and prosperous societies and economies.
Through HERproject, our global women’s empowerment initiative, BSR is promoting business engagement on this critical issue.
Beyond HERproject, we help our members create partnerships with women as employees, consumers, and community members. BSR has identified trends and best practices in women and sustainability including community investment, supply chain engagement, employee recruitment and retention, and stakeholder dialogue.
BSR believes that women’s empowerment must be a pillar of sustainability on a global scale, and that business must partner with the world’s women to help them overcome the challenges they face and realize the opportunities they promise.
Take our women’s empowerment poll on Facebook and let us know what you think are the most pressing issues of today.
Recent BSR Resources
- Blog: Notes from the Field: Lessons from HERfinance’s First Training
- Blog: Are Consumers Done with Fast Fashion?
- BSR Insight: The Other Women’s Movement: Factory Workers in the Developing World
- Blog: Lessons from Rana Plaza: Shocked, But Not Surprised
- Press Release: BSR Launches Online Platform to Create Training Materials on Women’s Health in Developing Countries
- Blog: Women’s World Banking: What Women’s Empowerment Means to Me
- Blog: Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council: What Women’s Empowerment Means to Me
- Press Release: BSR Wins US$1.77 Million Grant from Dutch Government
- Blog: Women Deliver President Jill Sheffield: What Women’s Empowerment Means to Me
More Women and Sustainability Resources →
Other Resources
- International Food Policy Research Institute Gender Page
- CARE
- Family Health International
- Global Business Coalition's "Healthy Women, Healthy Economies"
- International Center for Research on Women
- McKinsey Quarterly: Women & Leadership
- OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Database
- Pathways of Women’s Empowerment
- Population Reference Bureau: 2011 Women and Girls Data Sheet
- UN Women Watch
- Vital Voices
- Women Deliver
- Women for Women International
- Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace
- Women Thrive Worldwide
- Women’s World Banking
- World Bank Group/IFC: Global Private Sector Leaders Forum
- World Bank Group: Women, Business and the Law
