In 2017, UN Global Compact Network Canada received support from the Department for Women and Gender Equality (formerly known as Status of Women Canada) to develop a project to accelerate action on SDG 5.
By using the Blueprint with guidance from the Roadmap, the private sector can achieve gender equality leadership.
The Maturity Model was created to work in tandem with the Blueprint for Gender Equality Leadership in the Canadian Private Sector.
Gain greater organization-wide awareness about the ways gender inequality negatively impacts all individuals and solutions to address those issues
Facilitate the development and implementation of a gender equality strategy with practices and systems that ensure transparency and accountability
Create a corporate culture of inclusion where all individuals feel comfortable bringing their whole self to work
Increase knowledge of practices for collecting, measuring, evaluating, and reporting on gender equality data
Obtain practical understanding of actions that Canadian companies have implemented to advance gender equality in their workplaces
Identify areas for improvement and corresponding ways to drive change
We created the Blueprint to delineate what workplace gender equality leadership should look like and provide a roadmap to achieve it.
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. SDG 5 has 9 targets and 14 indicators that support the realization of this goal.
A workplace with gender equality at its core is inclusive, empowering, guarantees safety, wellbeing, and equality of opportunity, while ensuring that all employees are respected and valued.
UN Global Compact Network Canada is the Canadian network of the United Nations Global Compact, an organization dedicated to catalyzing business action to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
