Attracting, Retaining and Promoting Women in the Workplace is Good for Business

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 261.83 Social problems and services
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 313054
• Chủ đề: 1. EMPLOYMENT; 2. FEMALE LABOR FORCE; 3. PRIVATE SECTOR; 4. WOMEN

Tóm tắt

 Expanding women's employment in the private sector is imperative to increase female labor force participation in Mashreq countries. This knowledge brief identifies lessons learned from the IFC-led business case studies on firms that devise and implement policies to improve gender diversity in the workplace under the Mashreq Gender Facility (MGF), enriched by a literature review. It proposes specific actions firms can take under four areas: (a) committing & communicating to gender diversity
  (b) attracting female talent
  (c) retaining women in the workforce
  (d) promoting women to more senior positions.