BSR Insight Articles About Women & Sustainability
We found 16 BSR Insight articles on this topic; most recently published at the top.
The Other Women’s Movement: Factory Workers in the Developing World
Racheal Meiers (née Yeager), Director, HERproject
Note: This is part of a series of BSR articles on the tragedy in Bangladesh that will look at root causes, challenges, and how to prevent it from happening again. Read more
HERfinance: Empowering Workers in the Supply Chain Through Financial Inclusion
Chhavi Ghuliani, Manager, Advisory Services
A few months ago, my colleagues and I visited a number of factories in India to launch BSR’s new HERfinance initiative, which aims to bring low-income workers into the formal financial system and help them better manage their incomes. Read more
BSR Launches HERfinance to Improve Financial Literacy for Women in Global Supply Chains
Racheal Meiers (née Yeager), Director, HERproject
Today, BSR is launching HERfinance, an initiative that will create a financial literacy curriculum to educate female factory workers in global supply chains and help them access financial products. Read more
Anne-Marie Slaughter on Work-Life Balance
Julia Robinson, Communications Associate
"Unless you make it possible for the women who work for you to balance their work and family in the way they want to ... you're going to lose a huge amount of talent, and that's not going to be smart for you, for business, for the society." Read more
BSR’s HERproject Launches Open-Source Curriculum for Workplace Health Trainings
Elissa Goldenberg, Associate, Advisory Services
BSR's HERproject--a factory-based women's health education program--has launched a new curriculum for women's health trainings in the workplace. Developed with funding from the Levi Strauss Foundation, the HERproject curriculum covers topics ranging from nutrition and waterborne diseases to HIV/AIDS and family planning. For each topic, the curriculum provides unique resources for interactive, one-hour training sessions to address sensitive and critical issues in the work environment. Additionally, each health topic includes a health manual, additional training materials, and a post-training quiz. Based on HERproject best practices and in partnership with leading public health and development organizations, BSR developed the open-source curriculum for a wide group of users, including nonprofit organizations working on community-based health education, factory or farm human resources staff, and health clinic professionals. The language is clear and simple, and the directions for how to implement the training programs are thorough enough for less-experienced trainers to understand and implement. All materials are available for download on the HERproject website. For more information, contact Jennifer Schappert. Read more
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