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Question 3: Recruitment
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1: Does your company have leadership commitment and support for gender equality and women's empowerment?
2: Does your company have a non-discrimination and equal opportunity policy, either stand-alone or clearly included in a broader corporate policy?
3: Does your company have an approach to ensure non-discrimination and equal opportunity in recruitment processes?
4: Does your company have an approach to ensure non-discrimination and equal opportunity in professional development and promotion processes?
5: Does your company have an approach to ensure women and men are compensated equally?
6: Does your company offer and support paid maternity leave?
7: Does your company offer and support paid paternity leave?
8: Does your company have an approach to support employees as parents and caregivers?
9: Does your company have an approach to accommodate the work/life balance of all employees?
10: Does your company have an approach to ensure a world of work free from violence and harassment, including gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH)?
11: Does your company have an approach to address the specific health, safety, and hygiene needs of employees, with particular attention to those of women at work and while commuting to work?
12: Does your company have an approach to promote access to quality health services that meet the specific health needs of women employees?
13: Does your company have an approach to gender-responsive procurement (GRP) that expands relationships with women-owned and gender-responsive businesses?
14: Does your company encourage suppliers and vendors to advance performance on gender equality?
15: Does your company have an approach to responsible marketing that eradicates harmful stereotypes in all media and advertising content?
16: Does your company have an approach to assess differential impacts on women and men when developing products and/or services?
17: Does your company have policies and processes in place to ensure the responsibility to respect the rights of women and girls in the local communities in which it operates?
18: Does your company have an approach to embed gender equality in its sustainability strategy, community investment, public advocacy, and multi-stakeholder partnerships?
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Does your company have an approach to ensure
non-discrimination and equal opportunity
in recruitment processes?
Select an option:
Yes, our company has an approach to ensure
non-discrimination and equal opportunity
in recruitment processes.
No, our company currently does not have an approach, but:
Please select all that apply:
Commitment
Has a stand-alone policy or a commitment embedded in a broader corporate policy on
non-discrimination and equal opportunity
, that specifically addresses gender diversity in recruitment
Implementation
Forbids inquiring about the status or plans of the following in job applications or during interview processes: marriage, pregnancy or care responsibilities
Has due diligence and remediation processes in place to identify and address violations of recruitment policies that are based on gender discrimination
Takes
proactive steps
to recruit women at
all levels
Takes
proactive steps
to recruit women in traditionally
underrepresented roles
Ensures gender-balanced interview panels during hiring processes
Ensures that both women and men candidates are shortlisted for interviews
Ensures job descriptions use
gender neutral language
and images
Reviews AI-assisted or algorithmic recruitment tools for gender bias before deployment and on an ongoing basis, and ensures human oversight of automated shortlisting decisions
Measurement
Tracks number and rate of new employee hires and recruitment data, disaggregated by sex
Tracks rate of employee turnover, disaggregated by sex
Transparency
Reports publicly to company
stakeholders
on the number and rate of new employee hires and employee turnover, disaggregated by sex
Reports to the board on the number and rate of new employee hires and employee turnover, disaggregated by sex
We are interested in learning more.
We plan to take steps in the next year.
Some of our country offices or business units have taken steps.
None of the above.
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