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Equileap Gender Equality Indices

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  • Measuring and Evaluating
  • Reporting

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  • Equileap

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  • IIndices

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  • Indices and Benchmarks

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  • Corporate Reporting, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources

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Equileap Gender Equality Indices

Equileap
Equileap, leading organization providing data and insights on gender equality in the corporate sector, has designed several gender equality indices. These gender equality indices have gathered data on over 3,000 companies. Investment professionals can license this data to screen existing portfolios or create new products. The following Equileap indices have 19 measures that are grouped into four categories:

  1. Gender balance in leadership criteria: Non-executive board, executives, senior management, workforce, promotion and career development opportunities.
  2. Equal compensation and work life balance criteria: Fair remuneration, equal pay, parental leave, flexible work options.
  3. Policies promoting gender equality criteria: Training and career development, recruitment strategy, freedom from violence, abuse and sexual harassment, safety at work, human rights, social supply chain, supplier diversity, employee protection.
  4. Commitment to transparency and accountability criteria: Commitment to women’s empowerment, audit.

The following comprise Equileap’s Gender Equality Indices:

  • Solactive Equileap North American Gender Equality Index: Provides exposure to companies listed and domiciled in Canada that have demonstrated a commitment to gender diversity as part of their corporate responsibility strategy.
  • Solactive Equileap European Gender Equality 75 Index: Provides exposure to the top European companies that are leading the way in gender equality.
  • Morningstar Women’s Empowerment Index built with Equileap: Provides exposure to U.S companies that have incorporated gender diversity within their policies and corporate culture and ensure that all employees have equal opportunity.
  • Solactive Equileap Global Gender Equality Index Family: Tracks the top companies leading the way in gender equality internationally and with specific regional focus.
  • Solactive Equileap Global Gender Equality 100 Leaders Index: Tracks the top 100 companies leading the way in gender equality internationally.

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Thomson Reuters Diversity and Inclusion Index

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ATTRIBUTES
  • Measuring and Evaluating
  • Reporting

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  • Thomson Reuters

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • IIndices

TARGET AREA
  • Indices and Benchmarks

TARGET UNIT
  • Corporate Reporting, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources

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Thomson Reuters Diversity and Inclusion Index

Thomson Reuters
The Thomson Reuters Diversity and Inclusion Index transparently and objectively measures the relative performance of companies against factors that define diverse and inclusive workplaces. After ranking over 7,000 companies based on ESG data, the D&I Index identifies the top 100 publicly traded companies with the most diverse and inclusive workplaces. Top ranked companies include Gap, Nestlé, and Microsoft.

The index’s 24 metrics are organized into four pillars:

  1. Diversity: Measures board gender diversity, new women employees, diversity process, etc.
  2. Inclusion: Measures flexible working hours, day care services, employees with disabilities, etc.
  3. People development: Measures internal promotion, management training, employee satisfaction, etc.
  4. News & controversies: Measures diversity and opportunity controversies, and wages or working conditions controversies.

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Global Reporting Standards

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ATTRIBUTES
  • Goal Setting
  • Reporting

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  • Global Reporting Initiative

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • GGuide

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  • Standards and Certifications

TARGET UNIT
  • Corporate Reporting

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Global Reporting Standards

Global Reporting Initiative
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards help reporting organizations understand and communicate the impact of their business on critical sustainability issues. GRI Standards can be used to report on social impact related to gender measurements using the following standards:

GRI 401: Employment 2016:This Standard sets out reporting requirements on the topic of employment and it highlights hiring, recruitment, retention, and working conditions both within the company and throughout the supply chain. To learn more, click here.

  • GRI 401-1 provides a company with information about its efforts and results when implementing inclusive recruitment practices – not only gender (i.e. new hires and turnover)
  • GRI 401-3 deals with parental leave policies (e.g. number of employees that took parental leave – by gender, number of employees that returned to work after parental leave)

GRI 405: Diversity and Equal Opportunity 2016: This Standard addresses the company’s approach to diversity and equal opportunity at work and it highlights management approach to the topic, diversity of governance bodies and employees, and ration of basic salary and remuneration of women to men. To learn more, click here.

GRI 404: Training and Education 2016: This Standard provides insight into the scale of an organization’s investment in training, and the degree to which the investment is made across the entire employee base. To learn more, click here.

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Bloomberg’s Gender-Equality Index (GEI)

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ATTRIBUTES
  • Measuring and Evaluating
  • Reporting

SOURCE
  • Bloomberg

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • IIndices

TARGET AREA
  • Indices and Benchmarks

TARGET UNIT
  • Corporate Reporting, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources

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Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index (GEI)

Bloomberg
The Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) is an international standardized reporting and disclosure method to allow companies to publicly illustrate their commitment to equality and advancing women in the workplace. The Bloomberg Terminal is the only place where investors can access comprehensive and comparable information about gender equality at publicly funded businesses.

Bloomberg’s Gender Reporting Framework is provided to companies at no cost to allow them to promote gender equality across different areas. In 2019, 230 companies were included in the Index, including Scotiabank, Sodexo, and Unilever. Bloomberg’s 2020 Gender Reporting Framework is outlined below:

Section 1: Female leadership & talent pipeline: Measures the company’s commitment to attracting, retaining, and developing women into senior leadership positions.

Section 2: Equal pay & gender pay parity: Addresses how a company is closing the gender pay gap through transparent and effective action plans.

Section 3: Inclusive culture: Evaluates the policies, benefits, and programs that contribute to an inclusive work environment where all employees are valued and have equal opportunities.

Section 4: Pro-women brand: Gauges how a company is perceived by stakeholders considering factors such as supply chain and how women are portrayed in advertising.

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SASB Standards

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ATTRIBUTES
  • Goal Setting
  • Reporting

SOURCE
  • Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • SStandard

TARGET AREA
  • Standards and Certifications

TARGET UNIT
  • Corporate Reporting

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SASB Standards

Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Foundation establishes and maintains disclosure standards on sustainability matters to help facilitate communication between companies and investors. SASB has developed over 70 industry-specific standards, and its framework is organized into five sustainability dimensions: environment, social capital, human capital, business model and innovation, and leadership and governance. Human capital and social capital dimensions are key areas for businesses to examine while reporting on gender equality in the workplace.

Human Capital: This dimension addresses the management of a company’s human resources as key assets for delivering long-term value, including:

  • Labour relations
  • Fair labour practices
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Employee health, safety, and wellbeing
  • Compensation and benefits
  • Recruitment, development, and retention

Social Capital: This dimension relates to the expectation that a business will contribute to society in return for a social license to operate. The dimension includes:

  • Human rights and community relations
  • Customer welfare
  • Fair disclosure and labelling
  • Fair marketing and advertising

To learn more about SASB standards, click here.

SASB also offers a number of helpful tools and resources. To identify the materiality of gender equality in different sectors and industries using SASB’s Materiality Map, click here. To download the current standards for your industry, click here.

Embedding Gender in Sustainability Reporting: A Practitioner Guide

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  • Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships
  • Reporting
  • Supply Chain

SOURCE
  • International Finance Corporation, Global Reporting Initiative

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • GGuide

TARGET AREA
  • Implementation

TARGET UNIT
  • Corporate Reporting, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources

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Embedding Gender in Sustainability Reporting: A Practitioner Guide

International Finance Corporation, Global Reporting Initiative
This guide seeks to help enterprises tap into emerging best practices in sustainability reporting, achieve bottom-line benefits, and create new opportunities for women in the private sector by better understanding and managing gender perspectives in their businesses. The guide comprises gender equality discussions around organizational governance and values, workplace, supply chain, community, consumers, and investment.

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The Women’s Empowerment Principles: Reporting on Progress

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ATTRIBUTES
  • Measuring and Evaluating
  • Reporting

SOURCE
  • UN Global Compact, UN Women

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • RReport

TARGET AREA
  • Implementation

TARGET UNIT
  • Corporate Reporting, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources

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The Women's Empowerment Principles: Reporting on Progress

UN Global Compact, UN Women
The UN Women and UN Global Compact have produced this gender-specific guidance that offers practical advice on how to report on each of the seven Women’s Empowerment Principles. It provides general reporting approaches and specific examples of disclosures and performance indicators for each Principle. Importantly, the guidance aligns with established reporting frameworks such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and can be integrated into businesses’ UN Global Compact Communication on Progress (COP).

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In Focus: Addressing Investor Needs in Business Reporting on the SDGs

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ATTRIBUTES
  • Reporting

SOURCE
  • UN Global Compact, Global Reporting Initiative

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • RReport

TARGET AREA
  • Strategy

TARGET UNIT
  • Corporate Reporting

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In Focus: Addressing Investor Needs in Business Reporting on the SDGs

UN Global Compact, Global Reporting Initiative
This document builds on currently available disclosuresand provides perspectives and recommendations to help companies include information related to the SDGs in their corporate reporting.The report aims to effectively inform investor decision-making processes.

The 10 key recommendations in this report provide context on different investor approaches and essential elements for investor-relevant SDG business reporting. They complement the recommendations provided in “Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: A Practical Guide.”

Message and Approach

  1. Consistency of message for investors aligned with others addressing SDG contributions
  2. Integrated approach between SDG-related strategy and performance and overall sustainability and business strategy

Strategy and Governance

  1. Linkage of SDG trends and key factors driving corporate strategy
  2. Management approach to critical issues
  3. Appraisal and reward for meeting SDG targets

Report Content

  1. Analysis of risk and opportunities towards SDGs
  2. Quality and balance between facts and statements about SDG contributions
  3. Forecasting by demonstrating cause and effect between SDG and business performance

Data Format

  1. Standardized data that is comparable across time and companies
  2. Links to data in raw form

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Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: A Practical Guide

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ATTRIBUTES
  • Goal Setting
  • Reporting

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  • UN Global Compact, Global Reporting Initiative

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • RReport

TARGET AREA
  • Strategy

TARGET UNIT
  • Corporate Reporting, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources

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Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: A Practical Guide

UN Global Compact, Global Reporting Initiative
This guide was developed by the UNGC to help companies establish or further improve their reporting mechanisms related to the SDGs. It does not propose a new reporting framework; instead, it outlines a three-step process designed to entrench the SDGs into a pre-existing reporting framework.

Step 1: Define priority SDG targets

  • 1.1: Understand the SDGs and their targets
  • 1.2: Conduct principled prioritization of SDG targets
  • 1.3: Define your SDG-related report content

Step 2: Measure and analyze

  • 2.1: Set business objectives
  • 2.2: Select appropriate disclosures
  • 2.3: Collect and analyze data

Step 3: Report, integrate, and implement change

  • 3.1: Consider general features of good practice when reporting on the SDGs
  • 3.2: Consider data users’ information needs
  • 3.3: Report and implement change

To read the guide, click here.

Business Reporting on the SDGs – An Analysis of the Goals and Targets

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ATTRIBUTES
  • Baseline Assesment
  • Reporting

SOURCE
  • UN Global Compact, Global Reporting Initiative

TYPE OF RESOURCE
  • RReport

TARGET AREA
  • Strategy

TARGET UNIT
  • Corporate Reporting, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources

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Business Reporting on the SDGs - An Analysis of the Goals and Targets

UN Global Compact, Global Reporting Initiative
The resources that make up “Business Reporting on the SDGs – Action Platform” were developed collaboratively by UNGC and GRI to help organizations uphold and track the progress of SDGs. While the Action Plan includes detailed information about how to implement, analyze, and record all 17 SDGs, the summaries below focus on SGD 5 – Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls.

The three resources listed below, “An Analysis of the Goals and Targets”, “Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: A Practical Guide”, and “In Focus: Addressing Investor needs in Business Reporting on the SDGs” correspond with one another to build the five steps of the SDG Compass:

  • Step 1. Understanding the SDGs: “Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: A Practical Guide”
  • Step 2. Defining priorities: “An Analysis of the Goals and Targets”; and “Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: A Practical Guide”
  • Step 3. Setting goals: “Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: A Practical Guide”
  • Step 4. Integrating: “Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: A Practical Guide”
  • Step 5. Reporting and communicating: “An Analysis of the Goals and Targets”; and “Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: A Practical Guide”

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