BSR and Women's Empowerment

Women’s empowerment is a major opportunity for business growth, a critical pillar of global sustainability, and an imperative to building an inclusive economy. BSR focuses on women’s empowerment issues by working with companies to develop strategies, engage stakeholders, identify gaps, and recommend actions to help them reach more female customers, recruit and retain women employees, integrate women-owned businesses into supply chains, and realize business benefits. You can learn more about our work at http://www.bsr.org/en/topics/all-channels/Women.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Can We Create a ‘Future of Work’ that Works for Women?
How can businesses navigate the broader changes taking place in the world of work in a way that accelerates women’s workplace participation? BSR sets out to answer this question in its latest report.

Diversity & Inclusion

Three Changes for Women and Business Coming in 2019
As we celebrate International Women's Day, we take a look at three events in 2019 that have the potential to alter how business influences women’s empowerment.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Join Us to Empower 1.6 Million Women Workers through HERproject by 2022
BSR is proud to launch a new and more ambitious strategy for HERproject, a collaborative initiative that strives to empower low-income women working in global supply chains.

Diversity & Inclusion

On International Women’s Day, Let’s Press for Progress in Global Supply Chains
On this International Women’s Day, BSR urges us to commit to strengthen our resolve to ensure that women—and men—everywhere are empowered to create workplaces, communities, and societies in which women can thrive and be treated with respect. These examples from BSR's HERproject initiative demonstrate how that can be done.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

How Ethiopia’s Nascent Apparel Industry Can Build a Strong, Empowered Workforce
BSR’s HERproject conducted this scoping study to provide a snapshot of the buyers, factories, and other stakeholders active in the apparel industry and identify key trends and approaches for their operations in Ethiopia. This research aims to build a strong, empowered workforce, focused on female workers, in Ethiopia's emerging apparel industry.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

BSR to Host Event in China Celebrating Completion of Women in Factories Program
At the completion of BSR's Women in Factories program, BSR and Walmart will host a half-day event in Shenzhen, China, to celebrate program outcomes, recognize the efforts of participating factories, and more.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

HERproject at 10: Celebrating HERsuccess, Inspiring HERfuture
Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day 2017—a good time to take stock of our collective progress toward gender equality. And such a moment of reflection is particularly relevant for HERproject this year, as we are hitting a big milestone: It’s our 10th birthday! On our anniversary, we’re taking a moment to think about what we have achieved and what we have left to do.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

What Can Companies Do to Empower Women in Sub-Saharan Africa?
According to the United Nations, gender inequality costs the region of sub-Saharan Africa an average of US$95 billion a year. By eliminating gender inequality and empowering women, the productive capacity of one billion Africans could be raised, delivering a huge boost to the continent’s development potential.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

BSR Partners with Leading Supply Chain Initiatives on Ambitious Three-Year Project to Advance Women’s Empowerment
Today, BSR announced a new collaboration with leaders in supply chain networks to advance women’s empowerment in global supply chains. In partnership with six of the most influential supply chain networks around the world, Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), The Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI), International Council of Toy Industries CARE Foundation (ICTI CARE), The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), and Sedex, BSR will focus on making women’s empowerment central to the strategies, guidelines, and practices that provide a framework for supply chain management worldwide.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Addressing Women’s Empowerment Is Key to Sustainability: BSR’s Strategy for Business Action
With the publication of the first UN High-Level Panel on Women's Economic Empowerment report, BSR is pleased to launch a new practice to catalyze effective and ambitious business action on women's empowerment.

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