Integrating Gender Equality into Sustainability Standards: A Strategic Approach
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by Zahid Torres-Rahman
1w ago
Tackling gender inequalities in supply chains through sustainability systems The world won’t meet its sustainability goals without addressing gender issues – and sustainability standards and similar systems have an important role to play by setting gender responsive standards. The world won’t meet its sustainability goals without addressing gender issues – and sustainability standards and similar systems have an important role to play by setting gender responsive standards. Gender equality is one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, and is crucial to achieving many of the goals: f ..read more
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Redefining Women’s Leadership in the Garment Industry
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by Zahid Torres-Rahman
1w ago
RISE: A Reflection on Women’s Advancement Beyond Supervisory Roles in the Garment Industry Key Points Women workers are underrepresented in leadership roles within factories in the Ready-made-Garment (RGM) supply chains Existing activities focused on workers’ and supervisors’ capacity building to promote women to supervisory roles don’t fully match the expectations of workers or address their concerns There is an opportunity to explore a broader approach to supporting women’s advancement, beyond supervisory roles, that can get the buy-in of women and support longer term business needs. Despi ..read more
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Investing in Women Entrepreneurs: Nepali Childcare Center Gives Mothers More time
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by Zahid Torres-Rahman
1w ago
Two-year-old Hanvi Rana giggles as she pushes herself forward on a plastic motorcycle, weaving between the other toys scattered across the playroom. As one of 15 small children dropped off at this Nepali childcare center, the cheerful toddler is developing important cognition and social skills as she busies herself with playthings and educational games. Just as important, her mother now has time for other responsibilities. For three hours each weekday, Bimala Saru can turn her attention to household chores and tending her vegetable garden, while Hanvi attends free childcare. “Since the esta ..read more
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Mainstreaming Gender to Power Sustainable Business Growth
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by Zahid Torres-Rahman
2w ago
Gender equality is one of the essential pieces of the global prosperity puzzle. Women represent almost half of the global population and thus, also possess half of its potential. Yet inequalities faced by women are so deeply rooted and persistent, that we are lagging behind in our progress towards the gender equality targets set out in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There are 2.4 billion women globally who are deprived of equal economic rights. This is despite evidence pointing to a strong business case for gender equality. In fact, if the lifetime earnings gap between women an ..read more
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The Global Pursuit of Equity: A New Stanford Social Innovation Review Article Series
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by Zahid Torres-Rahman
2w ago
Social and environmental inequities exist in every pocket of the world, without exception. They often form across familiar lines, including race, gender, or physical ability, and manifest in familiar ways, including greater or less access to education, employment, technology, security, and a healthy environment. However, the severity, entrenchment, and complexity of these inequities are unique from region to region and community to community. So are their origins, their evolution, and how people define them. Solving them therefore requires a strong sense of context, including what perpetuates ..read more
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New Research Sheds Light on the Digital Gender Gap
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by Zahid Torres-Rahman
3w ago
Digital inclusion is crucial for economic justice, but women lack connectivity The complex issue of women’s economic justice is often reduced to conversations on equal pay or boardroom representation. As a woman leader, I of course see the value in these topics. However, the intersections of patriarchal structures, systemic inequalities, sexist attitudes, and access to digital tools are key drivers in the economic gender gap that remain largely under-discussed. In failing to explore and seek solutions to these challenges, we’re leaving half the population behind. This is a mistake we simply ca ..read more
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Delivering Healthier Futures for Women, Children and Young People
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by Zahid Torres-Rahman
3w ago
The Future  DOWNLOAD PAPER Imagine for a moment a world in which every woman, child and young person enjoyed their right to the highest attainable standard of health, regardless of where in the world they lived. Pregnant women in the poorest communities are cared for by qualified midwives and healthcare professionals, with access via digital apps to the latest in diagnostic technologies. Women living in remote areas who suffer labour complications are treated with NASA-inspired technology, and the life-saving drugs needed to stem postpartum haemorrhage are always on hand thanks to cutting ..read more
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Safer Workplaces – How Companies Can Support Survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse
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by Zahid Torres-Rahman
1M ago
A few years ago, companies wouldn’t want to talk about domestic violence and abuse. What’s changed, andwhy are companies increasingly looking at this issue? It’s broadly three things. First, companies have more awareness of the workplace impacts of domestic violence and abuse, which increased dramatically during COVID-19. We know that as many as 90% of survivors report that the harm caused by domestic violence affected their participation in and productivity at work. Companies are also seeing the links between domestic abuse and their broader equity goals, such as closing the gender pay gap an ..read more
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Stop Talking and Start Listening: Women Respond in Crisis
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by Zahid Torres-Rahman
1M ago
There are few certainties in life, but one I have come to recognize, is that women in crisis will always take incredible action – whether there is outside intervention or not. As we release the latest findings of our Women Respond survey – a major listening exercise with thousands of women in our Village Savings & Loan Associations (VSLAs) – another fact has become clear. Constantly listening to women is critical. And I don’t mean a baseline and an endline survey and a few check boxes along the way. We need to be constantly talking with women to create solutions with them that support thei ..read more
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Can Training Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace?
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by Zahid Torres-Rahman
1M ago
It’s rarely big news when companies make commitments to greater diversity and a higher representation of women in leadership teams. They do so for various reasons. Some believe diversity and inclusion (D&I) is a corporate performance driver and boosts financial performance, allows companies to choose from a wider swath of talent to solve problems and spark innovation or mirror a company’s customer base. Others believe inclusive workplaces are simply a question of fairness and a valid objective in its own right. Regardless of the motivation, companies are quick to adapt training programmes ..read more
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