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Question 4: Professional Development and Promotion
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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
professional development
and promotion processes?
Select an option:
Yes, our company has an approach to equal opportunities diversity in
professional development
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 that includes
professional development
opportunities for women and supports the building of a pipeline of qualified women for management/ senior leadership level positions
Implementation
Offer leadership coaching to ensure that talented women employees have equal opportunites to advance
Offers leadership coaching with
specific support for women
Offers access to
professional networks
(internal and/or external) with
specific support for women
Offers development trainings, rotational programmes, and educational opportunities with
specific support for women
Offers specific programmes to build the pipeline of qualified women for management/ senior leadership level positions
Has measures in place to ensure
professional development
programmes are scheduled at times that accomodate the scheduling needs of both men and women (taking into consideration care responsibilities)
Identifies and addresses structural barriers to promotion for women (ex. sponsorship gaps, performance review bias, criteria that disadvantage primary caregivers)
Offers formal sponsorship programmes in which senior leaders actively advocate for women's career advancement
Measurement
Has time-bound and measurable goals and targets to build a pipeline of qualified women for management level positions
Transparency
Reports to the board and/or management on the average number of training hours, disaggregated by sex and employee level
Reports to the board and/or management on the total number of women, as compared to men, in management and senior leadership level positions
Reports to the board and/or management on the total number of employees promoted in the last year, disaggregated by sex
Reports publicly on the percentage of women in management and senior leadership positions, disaggregated by level
Reports publicly to company
stakeholders
on the total number of women, as compared to men, in management and senior leadership level positions
Reports publicly to company
stakeholders
on the total number of employees promoted in the last year, 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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