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Using Data to Advance Gender Equality
Collecting, analyzing, and using sex-disaggregated data for decision-making is critical for organizations to identify the most significant gender equality gaps and make data informed strategic plans. Engendering Industries has developed an organizational gender equality assessment tool, guidance on developing organizational surveys, and guides for developing organizational goals and gender equality targets that partners can use to inform strategic planning and decision-making and to measure their own progress against identified gender equality targets.
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The Business Case for Employee Surveys
When organizations survey their employees and use the data to make positive workplace adjustments, they improve employee engagement, increase retention rates, lower absenteeism, and improve productivity.
When leadership conducts surveys, they signal their interest and commitment to employee wellbeing while gaining valuable insights into their employees’ workplace experience. If designed correctly, surveys provide valuable data on gender equality and social inclusion in the workplace and identify entry points to introduce gender equality initiatives.
Gender Equality Rapid Organizational Assessment
The assessment helps companies to:
- Identify gender equality gaps within the organization to support the strategic development of activities
- Support companies to develop a business case that demonstrates how gender equality will benefit the organization’s bottom-line;
- Measure change and results over time by repeating the assessment.
Gender Equality Action Plan
Developing a tailored Gender Equality Action Plan is critical to meet the unique needs of an organization. A Gender Action Plan should be used as a road map to advance gender equality and include long-term strategic targets, actions, and interventions. Data from the Rapid Organizational Assessment should inform which interventions could be used to advance gender equality.
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Setting Gender Equality Targets and Goals
Companies should use data to assess gaps, challenges, and opportunities, taking a systematic approach to benchmark progress and establish longer-term plans for sustained impact. Setting and articulating clear milestones enables an organization to define the incremental steps needed over a period of months or years to realize gender equality goals.
It also allows an organization to monitor, evaluate, analyze, and determine whether gender equality initiatives are on track to achieve longer term impact. In order to strategically set targets and ensure resources are being used efficiently, it’s important to monitor progress towards each target to determine whether or not gender equality initiatives are helping the organization achieve its overall vision.
Best Practices for Using Data to Advance Gender Equality
Use our Best Practices Framework tool to learn how to integrate gender into workplace policies.
Engendering Industries Tools and Resources
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Engendering Industries collaborated with partners in El Salvador and Senegal to collect, analyze, and use labor market data to advance gender equality.
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This guide supports workplace managers and staff to set and make progress towards their organizational gender equality, diversity, and inclusion goals.
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This guide helps organizations prioritize actions and measure progress toward gender equality at time-bound intervals.
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When organizations survey their employees and use the data to make positive workplace adjustments, they improve employee engagement, increase retention rates, lower absenteeism, and improve productivity. This guide provides an overview of three types of workplace surveys.
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