Women and Child Empowerment

Women's empowerment is a movement involving respect, honour and recognition toward all Women. It is the way or a social action in which women elaborate and recreate what it is to be in a circumstance that they previously were denied. There are several principles defining women's empowerment such as, for one to be empowered, they must come from a position of disempowerment.

Women’s Empowerment Principles

• Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality.
• Treat all women and men fairly at work – respect and support human rights and non-discrimination.
• Ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers.
• Promote education, training and professional development for women.
• Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women.
• Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy.
• Measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality.

Gender Equality

• Affirm high-level support and direct top-level policies for gender equality and human rights.
• Establish company-wide goals and targets for gender equality and include progress as a factor in managers’ performance reviews.
• Engage internal and external stakeholders in the development of company policies, programmes and implementation plans that advance equality.
• Ensure that all policies are gender-sensitive – identifying factors that impact women and men differently – and that corporate culture advances equality and inclusion

Equal Opportunity, Inclusion and Non-discrimination

• Pay equal remuneration, including benefits, for work of equal value and strive to pay a living wage to all women and men.
• Ensure that workplace policies and practices are free from gender-based discrimination.
• Implement gender-sensitive recruitment and retention practices and proactively recruit and appoint women to managerial and executive positions and to the corporate board of directors.
• Offer flexible work options, leave and re-entry opportunities to positions of equal pay and status.
• Support access to child and dependent care by providing services, resources and information to both women and men.

The Womens and Child Empowerment Rules

• Leadership Promotes Gender Equality
• Equal Opportunity, Inclusion and Non-discrimination
• Health, Safety and Freedom from Violence
• Education and Training
• Enterprise Development, Supply Chain and Marketing Practices
• Community Leadership and Engagement
• Transparency, Measuring and Reporting