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Gender
What does gender equity mean for business?
How does business create gender equality? And how do you create a gender equal business?
How can you prevent and tackle gender-based violence across the workforce and value chain? How can you mobilise men as allies to drive gender equity?
Find out the answers to your business and gender related questions here.
Resource Kits
Explore our issue-based resource kits with downloadable, co-created learning resources. Everything you need to inform your organisation’s social impact strategy and stay ahead of emerging social impact trends.
How can businesses ensure gender equity throughout value chains?
This Resource Kit focuses on how businesses can empower women within their workforces and ensure gender equity throughout their value chains.
Tools and examples on why, where and how companies can engage men as allies to advance gender equality across their value chains: Gender Equality is Everyone’s Business.
Three in depth case studies of action on gender equality: Gender Equality is Everyone’s Business - Case Studies
Hear from leading experts on how to achieve more gender equitable workplaces - including for example the role of parental leave: Podcast with Rani and Deepika from the International Finance Organisation (the IFC)
Learn from a panel of experts about a key barrier to achieving gender equality in this live webinar: How can business help strengthen the care economy?
Gain practical advice in this video: How Can Companies Ensure Gender Equality Through Value Chains?
More Gender Resources
The transition to a green economy offers the prospect of an improved environment and better livelihoods. But unlocking that opportunity requires understanding local markets and economic incentives.
- May 3, 2023
Women micro-entrepreneurs in Nairobi’s informal settlements struggle to get online and access the credit they need. Hand in Hand and Visa Inc.’s groundbreaking ‘acceleration’ programme tackled digital and financial exclusion, boosting participants’ profits by an average of 95%. Lucy Kerei, Programme Manager at Hand in Hand, Eastern Africa, shares how.
- April 28, 2023
Are you ready to learn from a young female entrepreneur from Ghana and an Africa and Middle East female finance leader from Pakistan who are passionate about the way we approach green tech solutions and improve incomes for smallholder farmers? Then buckle up and tune into this podcast featuring Social Impact Pioneers Audrey S-Darko and Khadija Hashimi
- April 24, 2023
Unlocking the power of female entrepreneurs from the inside – social impact pioneer Jenny Stojkovic, joins us to share her journey.
- April 18, 2023
With climate change having an outsize impact on women and girls, particularly those in developing countries, there must be a focus on the link between gender equity and climate as we consider climate solutions. This article highlights the role of carbon finance in channelling investment to projects impacting both, and the need to raise organisations’ climate ambitions.
- April 3, 2023
The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women’s latest research reveals the key challenges, motivations, and opportunities for women entrepreneurs. Here, the Foundation’s CEO, Helen McEachern, shares their key findings and calls on the private sector to take urgent action to support women entrepreneurs and help close the global gender gap in entrepreneurship.
- March 28, 2023
Coinciding with International Women’s Day, the Business Fights Poverty Gender Summit was the perfect opportunity to come together to share the latest thinking and action around gender equity. Together, we explored how to enhance the lives and livelihoods of women around the world, and empower them to thrive. This is your chance to gain access to the latest insights, with voices from across the globe.
- March 23, 2023
Listen in to explore the challenges and opportunities surrounding gender equality and women’s empowerment. The conversation goes beyond the standard gender equality rhetoric, peering deeper into some uncomfortable areas of why gender equality is in some cases stalling or reversing.
- March 21, 2023
A workshop on how to manage Scope 3 emissions and integrate a gender lens into your decarbonisation plans. Discover what other companies are trialling
- March 16, 2023
