Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
In 2017, GCNC 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.
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Blueprint
By using the Blueprint with guidance from the Roadmap, the private sector can achieve gender equality leadership.
Maturity Model
The Maturity Model was created to work in tandem with the Blueprint for Gender Equality Leadership in the Canadian Private Sector.
Advantages of
Using the Blueprint
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
Statements from
Participating Companies to the Project
ATB Financial
Baker McKenzie
CAMSC
Catalyst
Export Development Canada
IKEA Canada
Matrix360
Nutrien
Riverside Natural Foods
Scotiabank
SNC-Lavalin
Sodexo
Stantec
Starbucks
TELUS
The Women’s Empowerment Principles Secretariat
Turner & Townsend
Unilever Canada
Vancouver Airport Authority
WEConnect International
Williams Engineering
BASF
Blakes
CAE
The Foundation of the Blueprint
We created the Blueprint to delineate what workplace gender equality leadership should look like and provide a roadmap to achieve it
Sustainable Development Goal 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. SDG 5 has 9 targets and 14 indicators that support the realization of this goal.
What is gender equality leadership?
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.
Global Compact Network Canada
GCNC is the Canadian network of the United Nations Global Compact, an organization dedicated to catalyzing business action to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).