The Challenge

Dearth of research and inequity on the conditions of work for female and male employees.

Research indicate that men have less access to family-friendly policies such as parental leave or flexible working arrangements than women. On the other hand, in comparison to men, women’s labour is more likely to be rewarded less because women’s labour is treated as a communal entitlement; women are less likely to advance their careers because of conditions at the workplace and constrains in the collective culture; and there is a gender gap in lifetime earnings.

What can organisations do?

Working towards Gender Equality at the Workplace will entail such actions such as:

• The elimination of all forms of discrimination on the basis of gender, particularly in relation to family and caring responsibilities.
• Workplaces should provide equal pay for equal or comparable value of work done.
• Actively remove barriers inhibiting the full and equal participation of women in the workforce for example, all acts of bullying, harassment, coercion among others 
• Awareness of covert and overt bias at the workplace in for example recruitment processes, tasking, promotion, and leadership responsibility.
• Consciously granting women access to all careers and sectors, including leadership roles, regardless of gender.

Why Participate in the Aya Institute’s Workplace Gender Equality Reporting?

Be an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality!

Earn Prestigious GE Badge and Citation!

Be a leader among your peers on the Gender Equality Index!

Achieving gender equality is not only ‘fair’ and ‘the right thing to do,’ it is beneficial to your organisation and it improves a country’s overall economic performance.

Gender Equality is Smart Economics:

• Increase your organisational performance as a result of diversity 
• Attract top talent
• Increase your organisation’s ability to retain employees 

• Enhance your organisational reputation.
• Improve national productivity and economic growth

“gender equality is not only a fundamental human right but is linked to a country’s overall economic performance.” (WEF Global Gender Gap Report)

“People and their talents are among the core drivers of sustainable, long-term economic growth. If half of these talents are underdeveloped or underutilized, growth and sustainability will be compromised. Moreover, there is a compelling and fundamental values case for empowering women: women represent one half of the global population—they deserve equal access to health, education, earning power and political representation” (World Economic Forum, 2015).