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What is Workplace Gender Equality?
Achieving Workplace Gender Equality (WGE) leads to significant benefits for both organisations and employees. This video and other WGE resources provide insights on why companies need to advance gender equality in the workplace.
Influencing Gender Norms
We work with partners to positively shift attitudes and practices to support women in the world of work.
Workplace Gender Equality
We support Business Coalitions who work with influential businesses on shifting workplace cultures, practices and policy barriers to achieve workplace gender equality.
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empowering women economically is not
only the right thing to do — it’s the smart
thing to do.The evidence is clear — women’s economic empowerment is critical to
economic growth. One of the best ways to grow economies and achieve
stronger communities is to empower women and improve their economic
opportunities.Closing the Gender Gap: An Inventory of Philippine Policies on Women in the Workplace
This report serves as a guide for the private sector on gender-related policies and laws in the Philippines, covering policies on the formal economy that directly or indirectly affect women. This report is the first research publication of the Philippine Business Coalition for Women Empowerment, supported by Investing in Women.
The Advance of Impact Investing in South East Asia
This report presents insights from impact investments and gender lens investments across South East Asia between 2017 and 2019, with focus on Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. It aims to assess impact investing and Gender Lens Investing activity in the region and evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on the space going forward.
Impact Investing
We partner with Impact Investors and ecosystem builders to expand market opportunities for women, with a view to incentivising and catalysing access to capital for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) - led by and responsive to the needs of women.
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Closing the Gender Gap: An Inventory of Philippine Policies on Women in the Workplace
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