Engendering Industries Fact Sheets

USAID’s Engendering Industries program advances women's labor force participation in lucrative sectors worldwide, leading to tangible economic outcomes for women and improved company performance. Since 2015, Engendering Industries has adopted an iterative implementation approach, enabling the program to learn, evaluate, and adapt a proven approach for advancing workforce gender equality. The approach comprises six pillars that sustainably promote gender equality across the employee life cycle. Using this approach, our partners have hired and promoted over 12,900 women since 2017, and in 2023, 68 percent of partner companies hired or promoted women at the same rate as men or higher.