Resources Database

Pursuing Gender Equality in the Workplace During COVID-19

• Leadership
• Organizational Culture

This resource provides recommendations and resources specific to the Canadian private sector on forwarding the pursuit of gender equality in the workplace during COVID-19.

Equality Means Business: Trainers' Manual for Gender Equality in the Private Sector

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

This training manual provides organizations with an understanding of how to conduct training on issues of gender equality and corporate sustainability aligned with the UN Women and UN Global Compact’s Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPS).

When Work Works – Additional Resources

• Workplace Flexibility

When Work Works has also created workplace flexibility guides tailored to specific industries.

Equileap Gender Equality Indices

• Measuring and Evaluating
• Reporting

Equileap, leading organization providing data and insights on gender equality in the corporate sector, has designed several gender equality indices.

Thomson Reuters Diversity and Inclusion Index

• Measuring and Evaluating
• Reporting

The Thomson Reuters Diversity and Inclusion Index transparently and objectively measures the relative performance of companies against factors that define diverse and inclusive workplaces.

Global Reporting Standards

• Goal Setting
• Reporting

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards help reporting organizations understand and communicate the impact of their business on critical sustainability issues.

Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index (GEI)

• Measuring and Evaluating
• Reporting

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.

SASB Standards

• Goal Setting
• Reporting

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Foundation establishes and maintains disclosure standards on sustainability matters to help facilitate communication between companies and investors.

Embedding Gender in Sustainability Reporting: A Practitioner Guide

This guide seeks to help enterprises tap into emerging best practices in sustainability reporting, achieve bottom-line benefits

The Women's Empowerment Principles: Reporting on Progress

• Measuring and Evaluating
• Reporting

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.

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

This document builds on currently available disclosuresand provides perspectives and recommendations to help companies include information related to...

Integrating the SDGs into Corporate Reporting: A Practical Guide

• Goal Setting
• Reporting

This guide was developed by the UNGC to help companies establish or further improve their reporting mechanisms related to the SDGs.

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

• Baseline Assessment of Gender Equality
• Reporting

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.

Women in Governance Parity Certification

• Measuring and Evaluating
• Reporting

The Women in Governance Parity Certification is an assessment tool designed to increase women’s representation in workplaces, especially those sectors or roles where women have been traditionally underrepresented.

The Gender Equality Seal Programme

• Measuring and Evaluating
• Reporting

The UNDP Gender Equality Seal, launched in 2009 with a pilot program in Latin America, recognizes organizations for meeting specific standards to promote gender equality and empower women.

EDGE Certification

• Measuring and Evaluating
• Reporting

The EDGE assessment methodology and certification was launched in 2011 by the EDGE Certified Foundation at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum.

8 Ways to Measure Diversity That Have Nothing to Do With Hiring

• Organizational Culture
• Career Development
• Supply Chain
• Measuring and Evaluating

This article illustrates eight unique ways to measure the effectiveness of a business’s diversity and inclusion programs, beyond hiring and recruitment.

Measuring Progress

• Intersectionality
• Goal Setting
• Measuring and Evaluating

Project Include is a non-profit that uses data and advocacy to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions by offering recommendations about measuring diversity and inclusion progress in an organization.

Meaningful Metrics for Diversity and Inclusion

• Goal Setting
• Measuring and Evaluating

This resource provides a series of steps to help organizations set, evaluate, and analyze meaningful diversity and inclusion progress.

Vital Signs

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Measuring and Evaluating

This resource includes several tools to help organizations use a diversity and inclusion lens, and better understand and measure their workforce.

Workplace Gender Equality Indicators (Key Progress Indicators)

• Organizational Culture
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Workplace Flexibility
• Measuring and Evaluating

This resource was developed to help workplaces collect, review, and respond to data about gender and diversity.

Measuring What Matters in Gender Diversity

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Baseline Assessment of Gender Equality
• Measuring and Evaluating

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) recommends organizations look at five overarching metrics when it comes to gender diversity.

Target Setting Calculator

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Goal Setting

The Australian WGEA created this target-setting calculator for organizations to test a range of propositions to enable setting realistic, achievable gender targets.

How to Set Gender Diversity Targets – Guidelines for Setting and Meeting Targets to Increase Gende

• Goal Setting
• Measuring and Evaluating

This guide will assist your organization in setting realistic targets to improve the gender diversity of your workforce.

Gender Parity: Closing the Gap Between Commitment and Action

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Goal Setting

These metrics are directly related to the ones found in the report “Advancing Women as Leaders in the Private Sector” from the Canada-US Council.

The Gender Audit Handbook – A Tool for Organizational Self-Assessment and Transformation

• Baseline Assessment of Gender Equality

This resource povides a step-by-step guide to conduct a systematic and participatory gender audit in an organization.

Diversity and Inclusion Survey: Building a More Inclusive Future

• Organizational Culture
• Intersectionality
• Internal Communication
• Baseline Assessment of Gender Equality

This survey was developed as the result of a collaboration between B Corp Culture Amp and consulting firm Paradigm.

Employee Consultation

• Baseline Assessment of Gender Equality
• Measuring and Evaluating

This short survey from the Australian Workplace Gender Equality Agency has been designed to enable you to make an initial employee-based assessment of gender equality in your organization.

Participatory Gender Audit – A Tool for Introducing and Managing Institutional Change

• Organizational Culture
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Baseline Assessment of Gender Equality
• Measuring and Evaluating

The ILO Participatory Gender Audit (PGA) is a tool used to organization’s activities from a gender perspective, verifying its achievements and deficiencies.

The Gender Equality Mainstreaming (GEM) Framework

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Baseline Assessment of Gender Equality
• Goal Setting
• Measuring and Evaluating

This assessment is composed of three surveys that allow companies to measure their own gender equality and inclusion performance.

The Women's Empowerment Principles Gender Gap Analysis Tool

• Baseline Assessment of Gender Equality

The Women’s Empowerment Principles Gap Analysis Tool (WEPS Tool) helps companies identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities to improve their performance on gender equality.

International Labour Organization (ILO) and Public-Private Partnerships: An Alliance for the Future

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships

The ILO today has more than 700 active programs and projects on various themes in more than 100 countries – with the support of 120 development partners.

Build Sustainable Financing and Partnerships for Girls and Women

• Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships

This resource from Women Deliver discusses the need for financing and partnerships to support girls and women empowerment.

List of Organizations that Support Gender Equality and Women and Girl's Empowerment

• Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships

This list provides some examples of Canadian organizations that the private sector can support through funding or direct involvement in corporate social responsibility programs.

Partnering for Parity: Strengthening Collaborations for Gender Equality

• Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships

This article acknowledges that individual efforts towards gender equality are driving progress but highlights the multiplier effect that cross-sector partnerships could have in accelerating progress even further.

Partnering and Partnership: Lessons Learned in the DI

• Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships

The Devonshire Initiative has synthesized lessons learned from workshops, affiliate organization resources, and documents in the public domain related to cross-sector partnerships.

Strengthening Women's Rights Organizations Through International Assistance

• Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships

This report is the summary of a workshop held by the MATCH International Women’s Fund and Nobel Women’s Initiative with support from Global Affairs Canada.

Unlocking Opportunities for Women and Business – Women and Community Engagement

• Supply Chain
• Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships

This resource is a toolkit of actions and strategies for oil, gas, and mining (OGM) companies to reach their gender goals.

Why Gender Matters: A Resource Guide

• Intersectionality
• Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships

This guide provides organizations in the mining industry with direction on how to foster inclusive engagement and development by incorporating gender considerations into their work; avoiding putting women and men, communities and projects at risk; and better achieving diversity goals.

Using CSR and Philanthropy to Close the Gender Gap in Tech

• Organizational Culture
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships

Through a survey they found insight on practices that can increase tech gender diversity through philanthropic and CSR investments.

WEConnect Academy

• Supply Chain

The WEConnect Academy is an online suite of education and training programs to provide women business owners with a multitude ofresources and information.

Global Supplier Diversity & Inclusion – Reaching the Gold Standard

• Supply Chain

The Gold Standard Checklist helps multinational corporations and multilateral organizations assess their global supplier diversity and inclusion programs and identify improvement areas.

WEConnect International – Women's Business Enterprise (WEB) Certification

• Supply Chain

WEConnect International’s Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) Certification allows corporate members to ensure that they are purchasing goods and/or services from women-owned businesses.

WBE Canada Certification

• Supply Chain

The Women’s Business Enterprise Canada Council (WBE Canada) has developed the WBE Certification, a formal verification for Canadian B2B businesses that are owned, managed, and controlled by women.

CGLCC Supplier Diversity Program

• Intersectionality
• Supply Chain

The Canadian LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce’s (CGLCC) Supplier Diversity Program connects LGBT+ businesses in Canada with corporations, organizations, and government bodies eager to do business with them.

CAMSC Supplier Certification

• Intersectionality
• Supply Chain

The Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC) certifies and links Aboriginal and minority-owned businesses to purchasing opportunities at major corporations across Canada and the United States.

Gender Equality in Social Auditing Guidance

• Supply Chain

This report provides guidance on how organizations can integrate gender equality considerations within social auditing methodologies and processes.

Making Women Workers Count: A Framework for Conducting Gender Responsive Due Diligence in Supply Cha

• Supply Chain

This resource provides guidance on conducting gender-responsive due diligence within supply chains to organizations and suppliers through the Gender Data and Impact (GDI) Framework.

Gender Equality in Codes of Conduct Guidance

• Supply Chain

This guide provides a framework for companies to integrate gender equality considerations into the standards they use to set supply chain ethical requirements.

Supporting and Growing Women-Owned Businesses

• Supply Chain

In this research, the Canada-United States Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders has outlined specific initiatives to support women entrepreneurs.

The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code

• Supply Chain

The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is a leading alliance of companies, trade unions, and NGOs that encourages businesses to have responsible supply chains and participate in ethical trade.

KnowTheChain

• Supply Chain
• Reporting

KnowTheChain is a resource for companies and investors that benchmarks corporate practices in a variety of industries to help inform investors’ decisions.

SA8000 Standard

• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety
• Supply Chain

Businesses can use the SA8000® Standard to ensure that human rights are upheld, and employees are treated fairly and with respect throughout the entire supply chain.

Supplier Diversity Playbook – Guidelines to Establishing a Successful Supplier Diversity Process

• Intersectionality
• Supply Chain
• Reporting

The Playbook is a guideline to establishing a successful supplier diversity process for the private sector and discusses five key factors that are critical for creating a robust supplier diversity process.

The Power of Procurement: How to Source from Women-Owned businesses

• Supply Chain

This is a guide for gender-responsive procurement that provides corporations and their suppliers with a deeper understanding of challenges preventing women-owned businesses from fully participating in local and global value chains.

Getting Gender Right

• Marketing and Advertising

Kantar’s report is designed to help marketers feel more confident making strategic branding decisions related to gender differences in response to marketing campaigns.

Gender Bias in Advertising: Research, Trends & New Visual Language

• Marketing and Advertising

The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary’s University works with media and entertainment companies to improve how girls and women are reflected in media.

Advertising Guidance on Depicting Gender Stereotypes Likely to Cause Harm or Serious or Widespread O

• Marketing and Advertising

The Committee of Advertising Practice of the UK created this guidance to help advertisers, agencies, and media owners interpret the CAP Code.

Let's Speak Gender: 10 Principles of Gender-Responsive Communications for Development

• Intersectionality

This resource provides guidance on gender-responsive representation in communications based on the premise that language can reinforce or subvert gender inequalities.

A Guide to Gender Equality in Communications

• Marketing and Advertising

The Koç Group, an investment holding company from Turkey, developed this guide to help transform workplaces and advance gender equality through effective communication.

A Guide to Progressive Gender Portrayals in Advertising - The Case for Unstereotyping Ads

• Marketing and Advertising

This guide emphasizes the need for the advertising industry to move away from gender stereotypes in advertising and provides advice and recommendations on how to do so.

Gender Portrayal Guidelines

• Intersectionality
• Marketing and Advertising

Advertising Standards Canada administers these guidelines with respect to the representation of women and men in advertisements.

Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Domestic or Sexual Violence Leave Information

• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

Global Compact Network Canada created a table that contains information related to domestic or sexual violence leave at the federal level, and for each province and territory in Canada, where applicable.

People Want Their Employers to Talk About Mental Health

• Organizational Culture
• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This article discusses how organizations can use an intersectional lens to approach and normalize conversations about mental health in the workplace.

Assembling the Pieces: An Implementation Guide

• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This guide provides direction on the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace.

What Will it Take? Promoting Cultural Change to End Sexual Harassment

• Organizational Culture
• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This discussion paper provides guidance and insights to help employers prioritize the needs of the victim–survivors in sexual violence, harassment, and discrimination incidents.

A policy primer: Guide to developing human rights policies and procedures

• Intersectionality
• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This primer provides organizations with practical guidance for developing effective and fair ways to prevent and respond to human rights issues, including harassment, discrimination, and accommodation needs.

Dealing with Sexual Harassment When Your Company Is Too Small to Have HR

• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This Harvard Business Review article discusses what small companies can do to prevent and address sexual harassment.

A 15-Point Plan for Boards and CEOs to Eradicate Sexual Harassment in Their Organizations

• Leadership
• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This resource provides a list of actions that leaders of organizations should take to eliminate sexual harassment in their workplaces.

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

• Organizational Culture
• Intersectionality
• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This report discusses the action organizations can take to create a safe and fair work environment for all employees beyond policies and training.

Is it Harassment? A Tool to Guide Employees

• Organizational Culture
• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This toolis directed to employees as a starting point to analyze what constitutes harassment and determine if a situation might be workplace harassment.

It's Time: 5-Step Sexual Harassment Risk Mitigation Strategy for Employers

• Organizational Culture
• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This resource provides an overview of several provincial and federal occupational, health, and safety laws, human rights laws, employment standards laws, and criminal laws.

OHS Answers Fact Sheets – Violence in the Workplace

• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This resource is an extensive fact sheet from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety on preventing violence in the workplace.

Including Gender Issues in Risk Assessment

• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This guide provides a model for making risk assessment more gender-sensitive by focusing on five stages of risk assessment and recommending how to include gender in each of them.

10 Keys for Gender Sensitive OSH Practice

• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

These guidelines help organizations take a gender-sensitive approach to mainstreaming gender into occupational safety and health policies and practices to provide a safer workplace for both women and men.

OHS Answers Fact Sheets – Canadian Government Departments Responsible for OH&S

• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This resource provides a list of all agencies responsible for occupational health and safety in the federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions.

Federal and Provincial and Territorial Maternity and Paternity Leave Information

• Workplace Flexibility

Global Compact Network Canada created a table that contains information related to pregnancy/maternity and parental leave at the federal level, and for each province and territory in Canada.

Creating a Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Workplace Flexibility
• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This guide aims to assist employers when designing workplaces with accessible, well-equipped spaces for employees to breastfeed.

What is the Link Between Business Strategy and Workplace Design?

• Workplace Flexibility
• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This article provides recommendations for workplace wellbeing when considering office (re)construction, layout, and design with a focus on human experience, digital drive, continuous innovation, operational experience, and financial performance.

Tackling Childcare - A Guide for Employer-Supported Childcare

• Workplace Flexibility

This report is based on practical insights from 10 companies and provides detailed information on the business case for employer-supported childcare, and how to design and implement a childcare strategy.

Want to Improve Gender Equality at Work? Help Men Take Parental Leave

• Organizational Culture
• Workplace Flexibility

This article is based on MERCER’s 2018 “Global Parental Leave Report” and provides an overview of some of its most relevant findings.

Making it Work! How to Effectively Manage Maternity Leave Career Transitions: An Employer's Guide

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Career Development
• Workplace Flexibility

This guide is a comprehensive manual to help employers tailor specific strategies to the needs of their organization and employees as a result of pregnancy, birth, or adoption.

Workflex and Small Business Guide – Big Ideas for Any Size

• Workplace Flexibility

This resource addresses workplace flexibility for small businesses and describes the benefits specific to small organizations in addition to commonly known benefits of work flexibility.

Workflex and Managers Guide – Setting You and Your Team up for Success

• Workplace Flexibility

This resource provides an in-depth review of workplace flexibility targeted specifically towards managers to help them look into flexible work as an opportunity to support employees’ success.

Leveraging Workplace Flexibility for Engagement and Productivity

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Workplace Flexibility

This resource contains an extensive review of workplace flexibility, including the business case, description of a wide variety of workplace flexibility types, and steps for implementing workplace flexibility, among others.

A Manifesto for Change: A Modern Workplace for a Flexible Workforce

• Organizational Culture
• Workplace Flexibility

This resource summarizes the need for workplace flexibility and identifies the key demands of the manifesto that can help the workplace adapt a flexible workforce.

Developing a Flexible Working Arrangement Policy

• Workplace Flexibility
• Workplace Wellbeing and Safety

This briefing note provides guidance on the key features of a flexible working arrangements policy.

Flexibility Business Case – Building Your Business Case for Flexible Work Through Workforce Metric

• Workplace Flexibility

This toolkit aims to help organizations identify the areas where flexibility could positively influence an organization’s productivity and employee engagement.

Flexibility Focus Group Guidance – How to Run an Effective Focus Group on Workplace Flexibility

• Workplace Flexibility

This document provides guidance on how to run focus groups with your employees on flexibility in your organization (e.g. timing, participants, facilitator, questions, circumstances).

Readiness Assessment – Is Your Organization Ready for a Strategic Approach to Flexibility?

• Workplace Flexibility

This toolkit provides the framework and practical guide to conducting a systematic diagnosis of “where are we now” – a key input to building your workplace flexibility strategy.

Employee Flexibility Toolkit – How to Negotiate and Manage a Successful Flexible Working Agreement

• Workplace Flexibility

This toolkit provides information and advice for introducing flexible working arrangements and integrating work practices into an employee’s job.

Manager Flexibility Toolkit – How to Create Successful, Engaged and Productive Flexible Teams

• Workplace Flexibility

The aim of this toolkit is to provide information and guidance on how to successfully implement flexible working arrangements to maximize the opportunities and benefits that flexibility brings.

Building a Workplace Flexibility Strategy

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Workplace Flexibility

This guide provides a holistic frameworkto support a strategic approach to implementing organization-wide workplace flexibility programs.

Catalyst Women on Board – Solving the Boardroom Diversity Challenge Through Sponsorship

• Leadership
• Career Development

This is an active sponsorship program for women board candidates to enable women’s advancement on to boards and to enable companies to find and appoint women board candidates.

List of Women's Associations

• Career Development
• Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships

This website provides a comprehensive list of industry-specific women’s associations in Canada that your organization could partner with to support gender equality efforts.

My Career Toolkit: Professional Associations and Networking Groups

• Career Development
• Outreach Initiatives and Partnerships

Catalyst has created a list of several professional associations and networking groups for women, LGBTQI, visible minorities, and people with disabilities around the world and in Canada.

Employee Resource Groups: Toolkit for Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners

• Organizational Culture
• Career Development

The Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion created this toolkit to provide practical suggestions and strategies for implementing and managing Employee Resource Groups within companies.

ERLI: Employee Resource Leadership Initiative

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Career Development

Catalyst created the Employee Resource Leadership Initiative (ERLI) to engage and connect Employee Resource Group leaders across companies, industries, functions, and regions.

What Men Can Do to Be Better Mentors and Sponsors to Women

• Leadership
• Career Development

This article explores the need for companies to develop sponsorship programs to uplift the diverse talent in their organizations.

A Lack of Sponsorship is Keeping Women from Advancing into Leadership

• Career Development

This article explores the varying degrees of sponsorship as a tool for executives who are looking to sponsor women, and women who are aiming to advance their careers.

How to Mentor or Sponsor Women Without Sending the Wrong Message

• Career Development

This article includes recommendations for mentoring and sponsoring programs to ensure they don’t send the wrong message within the organization.

Mentoring & Sponsoring Starter Kit – Women Need a Network of Champions

• Career Development

This guide highlights the main responsibilities of mentors, provides brainstorming exercises for both mentors and mentees about their needs, and recommends actions for setting expectations for successful mentoring relationships.

Gender Diversity on Boards in Canada – Recommendations for Accelerating Progress

• Leadership
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion

This report was created to help Canadian organizations make progress on achieving gender parity on boards by promoting the adoption of targets.

Board Directors' Playbook

• Leadership
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion

The Playbook provides information on common obstacles, the business case of gender diversity on boards, and tools for action in order to address this issue.

Bias in Performance Management Review Process

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Career Development

This resource explains the four domains of bias in performance management: rater bias, self-rater bias, structural bias, and calibration bias.

7 Ways You Might be Overlooking Talent – How Unconcious Bias can Play Out in the Workplace

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Career Development

This resource lists unconscious biases that negatively impact people’s opportunities to advance in their career and examples of specific actions to fight them.

Textio Hire App

• Internal Communication
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Marketing and Advertising

This app has been identified as an effective tool to analyze language in job descriptions to attract a more diverse applicant pool.

Winning the Fight for female Talent - How to Gain Diversity Edge Through Inclusive Recruitment

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion

This study analyzes inclusive recruitment practices from over 300 respondents in 18 different countries and in several sectors.

Workplace Diversity Through Recruitment: A Step-by-Step Guide

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion

This resource is a guide on how to effectively, fairly, and objectively increase diversity through company recruitment practices.

Paradigm for Parity: A Call to Action for Gender Equality

• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Career Development
• Baseline Assessment of Gender Equality

“The Toolkit” outlines several steps to improve gender balanced recruitment within a company, including understanding the baseline, improving your intake, and managing with a diversity mindset.

The Guide to Gender Diversity in Employment – Employer's Guide

• Organizational Culture
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion

This resource provides a framework for identifying and taking action on a gender diversity strategy for the workplace.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: A Best Practices Guide for Recruitment, Hiring and Retention

• Intersectionality
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion

This guide provides an extensive list of recommendations to best address areas for improvement in the workplace with regards to recruitment and retention, and different stages within those processes.

Pay Equity for Small Businesses: Three Step Guide to Fairer Pay in your Organization

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

In this resource, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, in collaboration with economic Security4Women, has developed a three-step guide for small businesses to address pay inequity.

Gender Pay Gap Calculator Guide – Technical Guide to Using the WGEA Gender Pay Gap Calculator

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

This guide outlines how to use the Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s (WGEA) gender pay gap calculator to assist organization in conducting payroll analysis.

Guide to Gender Pay Equity

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

This information sheet emphasizes the advantages of having a remuneration policy that incorporates gender pay equity components.

Guide to Gender Pay Equity

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps
• Goal Setting

This document provides step-by-step guidance to understand the gender pay gap, identify gender-related pay gaps within your organization, and establish goals, strategies, and actions to improve gender pay equity.

Interactive Job Comparison Tool for Small Businesses

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

This tool enables a small business employer to adapt their specific workplace information required to apply the job-to-job and proportional value comparison methods to determine required adjustments to wages.

E-Learning Modules: Pay Equity for Small Businesses

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

These 15 educational modules take a user through each aspect of the pay equity process and include detailed explanations of technical terms used in pay equity.

Pay Equity Plan Samples

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

This resource provides access to pay equity plan samples for job-to-job and proportional value comparison methods.

Proportional Value: Regression Analysis

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

This resource provides tools and calculators to apply the proportional method of job comparison through regression analysis.

Step by Step to Pay Equity – Mini-Kit

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

This kit sets out the basic steps for achieving pay equity under the Act for private sector employers.

A Guide to Interpreting Ontario's Pay Equity Act

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

This guide gives an overview of the minimum requirements of the Pay Equity Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. P7 (as amended), as interpreted by the Pay Equity Office.

Pay Equity Act Backgrounder

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

This backgrounder provides an outline of the requirements for pay equity under the Pay Equity Act (2018) and its regulations.

Pay Equity Information Guide

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

This guide provides information on the steps to achieving pay equity, explaining the four factors used to assess the value of work (skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions).

An Overview of Pay Equity in Various Canadian Jurisdictions

• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

This document provides an overview of pay equity legislation and statutory mechanisms addressing gender wage discrimination enacted by the Canadian government and provincial governments.

Communicating Your Gender Pay Gap

• Internal Communication
• Closing Gender Wage Gaps

This report aims to help companies effectively communicate and disclose their gender wage gap by describing an action plan and demonstrating a real commitment to act.

Gender Inclusive Language Guidelines – Promoting Gender Equality Through the Use of Language

• Internal Communication
• Marketing and Advertising

This UN Women resource provides guidance on how to use gender-responsive language in communications, outlining strategies that can be adopted to encourage gender equality through language.

Diversity Primer - Communications and Marketing

• Internal Communication
• Marketing and Advertising

This guide outlines why communication is integral when developing, implementing, and overseeing a diversity and inclusion program.

Gender Mainstreaming – Institutional Transformation

• Internal Communication

This toolkit provides a 13-step guide to institutional transformation on gender, with step seven focusing on communication.

Gender Equality Strategy Guide: Embed and Communicate the Strategy

• Internal Communication

This guide provides organizations with guidance and recommendations about how to communicate a gender equality strategy to stakeholders.

Support for Trans Employees: A Guide for Employees and Managers

• Organizational Culture
• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

This resource provides guidance for employees and managers on how to provide a safe, respectful, and inclusive work environment for transgender and gender variant employees.

The Intercultural Development Inventory

• Leadership
• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) is an assessment that organizations can use to measure the intercultural competence within their workplaces.

Women of Colour in the Workplace Toolkit

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

This toolkit explores the barriers for women of colour in employment as well as the solutions towards an intersectional approach to diversity management.

Intersectionality Toolkit

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Internal Communication

This toolkit was designed to provide more information on intersectionality to organizations and activists, and to explore practices that improve inclusiveness.

Intersectionality and the Implications for Workplace Gender Equity

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

Produced by the Rotman Institute for Gender and the Economy, this research brief describes what intersectionality is,.

Developing a Workplace Accomodation Policy

• Leadership
• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion

This resource, developed by the Canadian Human Rights Commission, includes a drafted template of a workplace accommodation policy to help employers seeking to develop a policy for their organization.

A Guide for Business: How to Develop a Human Rights Policy

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Intersectionality

This resource provides a comprehensive outline on how to develop a human rights policy to help an organization express its commitment to respect internationally recognized human rights standards.

Provincial & Territorial Human Rights Agencies

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

This resource provides a comprehensive list of provincial and territorial human rights agencies (including commissions and tribunals) across Canada.

An Intersectional Approach to Discrimination: Addressing Multiple Grounds in Human Rights Claims

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

This resource includes a Canadian-based framework for a contextualized intersectional approach to analyzing discrimination in multiple grounds complaints.

Gender Based Analysis Plus (GBA+)

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Baseline Assessment of Gender Equality

GBA+ is an analytical tool that considers identity factors such as sex, gender race, ethnicity, religion, age, and mental or physical disability.

Men as Allies: Engaging Men to Advance Women in the Workplace

• Organizational Culture
• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

This report provides an overview on the topic of men as allies in the advancement of gender equality in the workplace.

MARC Leaders Program: Engaging Men as Champions

• Leadership
• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

MARC Leaders is an immersive program focused on engaging men as change agents who lead efforts to bring greater diversity to the workplace.

Gender Mainstreaming – Gender Awareness Raising

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Internal Communication

This tool outlines the requirements for gender mainstreaming initiatives to be effective in increasing general sensitivity and awareness of gender (in)equality).

Gender Equality Training: Gender Mainstreaming Toolkit

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Internal Communication

This toolkit provides participants with relevant knowledge, skills, and values that allow them to contribute to the effective implementation of gender equality strategies.

Gender Inclusion & Diversity Toolkit - WIM

• Leadership
• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion

This toolkit was written specifically for manufacturers in Canada and provides a set of practical tools to build awareness and engagement regarding gender inclusion and diversity.

Flip the Script

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Intersectionality

This resource contains several infographics for using the correct language and wording in different areas to avoid reinforcing negative gender stereotypes in workplace culture.

CatalystX Online Courses

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

Catalyst provides online training through its EdX, non-profit learning platform for which employees can earn a Verified Certificate for a fee or audit for free.

UN Women Training Centre

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

UN Women provides training courses, gender equality training resources, and assistance for developing courses and training programs.

Gender Equality Capacity Assessment Tool

• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising
• Baseline Assessment of Gender Equality

This UN Women’s assessment tool enables a business to assess employees’ understanding, knowledge, and skills regarding gender equality, women’s empowerment, and the organization’s gender architecture.

Five Ways to Enhance Board Oversight Culture

• Leadership
• Organizational Culture

This resource was developed for board members in recognition that culture is a growing priority in the boardroom.

The Design of Everyday Men – A New Lens for Gender Equality Progress

• Leadership
• Organizational Culture
• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

This research study looks at the perspective of men in order to advance gender equality in leadership.

The Barbershop Toolbox – Mobilizing Men and Boys for Gender Equality

• Leadership
• Organizational Culture
• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

The Toolbox provides resources for a “Facilitator” – a male ambassador for the HeForShe program – to start the gender equality discussion among male coworkers.

The Design of Everyday Men – A New Lens for Gender Equality Progress

• Leadership
• Organizational Culture
• Capacity Building and Awareness-Raising

This research study looks at the perspective of men in order to advance gender equality in leadership.

Actions Men Can Take to Create an Inclusive Workplace

• Organizational Culture

Catalyst listed actions men can take to develop capacities as agents of change and as influential role models to male peers.

How Managers Can Make Casual Networking Events More Inclusive

• Organizational Culture
• Intersectionality

This article outlines recommendations to address the lack of inclusion in casual networking events in the workplace or outside business hours.

Women and the Future of Work

• Organizational Culture
• Intersectionality

Catalyst’s research demonstrates that leaders who attempt to implement a more integrated view of diversity, equity, and inclusion are able to establish the foundation for a more innovative and collaborative workforce.

Getting to Equal 2020: The Hidden Value of Culture Makers

• Leadership
• Organizational Culture

In this report, Accenture describes the importance of understanding how employees perceive the level of inclusivity within their organizations.

6 Steps for Building an Inclusive Workplace

• Organizational Culture

This resource is aimed at HR professionals and discusses how successful diversity and inclusion requires a workplace culture where everyone is valued and heard.

Diversity and Inclusion Councils – Toolkit for Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners

• Organizational Culture

This toolkit provides insight about how to establish a properly structured diversity and inclusion council in an organization.

Outcomes Over Optics: Building Inclusive Organizations

• Organizational Culture

The goal of this resource is to start a conversation about moving from optics to outcomes by sharing best practices from a variety of Canadian businesses to move inclusivity forward.

Manager Guide to Gender Diversity: Plan and Implement Successful Gender Diversity Projects

• Leadership
• Internal Communication
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion
• Career Development
• Workplace Flexibility
• Measuring and Evaluating

This guide provides an overview of how companies can better tap into the female talent pool.

Developing a Workplace Gender Equality Policy

• Leadership
• Organizational Culture
• Recruitment, Retention, and Promotion

This guide describes what a gender equality policy is, why workplaces should have one, the key characteristics of this policy, and frameworks to measure objectives.

Building Inclusion: An Evidence-Based Model of Inclusive Leadership

• Leadership

Diversity Council Australia’s Inclusive Leadership Model proposes that there are five capabilities necessary for a person to be an effective inclusive leader.

A CEO's Guide to Gender Equality

• Leadership

This guide synthesizes the research on how CEOs can forward gender equality in their company.

How CEOs Can Put Gender Balance on the Agenda at Their Companies

• Leadership

This article outlines “the facts, the feelings, and the framework” on how CEOs can lead the change to gender balanced teams in their organizations.

Are You an Inclusive Leader?

• Leadership

This quiz allows leaders to gain a better understanding of their progress and performance in inclusive leadership.

Getting Real about Inclusive Leadership – Why Change Starts with You

• Leadership
• Organizational Culture

In this report, Catalyst highlights the importance of developing an inclusive team culture, emphasizing the role of managers in encouraging a collaborative workplace through inclusive leadership practices and behaviour.

The Diversity and Inclusion Revolution: Eight Powerful Truths

• Leadership
• Organizational Culture

This article was developed to help business leaders close the gap between aspiration and reality in terms of achieving a diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

The Six Signature Traits of Inclusive Leadership

• Leadership

This report describes six key traits of inclusive leadership that prepare leaders for today’s business environment of diverse markets, customers, ideas, and talent.

CEO Blueprint – How to Build and Lead Gender-Balanced Organizations

• Leadership

This Blueprint provides a starting point for CEOs once they understand the importance of gender balance to build a vision, structuring and mobilizing management teams, and focusing on gender diversity initiatives.