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UNDP’s Gender Equality Journey And The EDGE Certification
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a United Nations organization tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. Achieving gender parity is at the heart of its mandate not just for sustainable growth and human development worldwide but also for the growth and development of its own people.…
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Measure It, Talk About It, Close It
The concept of equal pay for equivalent work is hard to argue with: it makes legal, moral and commercial sense. However, agreement with the concept does not remove gender pay gaps from our workplaces. Last year’s Gender Balance Index (GBI) found that a large number of institutions, based in countries that have legislation for upholding…
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Equileap Publishes 2022 Gender Equality Global Report
Equileap’s 2022 Gender Equality Global Report & Ranking has been published. The Equileap Report presents the results of an in-depth analysis of gender equality in the workplace globally, presenting the top 100 companies, as well as insights per country and sector, and key findings on gender equality. In releasing this research Equileap continues to do…
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Holcim (Colombia) S.A. Celebrates Its Commitment To Workplace Gender Equity
The organization becomes the first within the construction materials industry – and is currently only the fourth in the world – to obtain the EDGE Lead Certification. Holcim (Colombia) S.A., one of the leading manufacturers of building materials in Colombia – and a company of the Holcim group – has earned EDGE Lead level certification…