Ensuring gender equality, fairness, and equity in the workplace requires strong policies, effective practices and feminist leadership. To support HR professionals and organisational leaders in driving meaningful change, we have curated a resource bank of good practice drawn from a range of experts, actors and sectors to inform your efforts. We also offer information on external expertise that organisations can engage to support your efforts to advance workplace fairness and equity.
For further examples of best practice, you can find policies from high-performing organisations in our sample in our Workplace Policy Repository.
Explore a collection of practical tools, guidance, research and assessments* from a range of organisations designed to support your efforts in building workplaces that are fair, equitable, and guided by feminist leadership principles.*
*While Global 50/50 does not evaluate or endorse these materials, they are shared to support collective learning and action.
Resources and policies that support fair, equitable and inclusive hiring practices.
Anti-racism and decolonising: A framework for organisations - Bond
How to create anti-racist hiring practices - FutureLearn
Five proven ways to attract and hire more diverse talent - Tech Crunch
Global Assessment - Business Disability Forum
NextGen Leaders Program - Disability: IN
Disability in the Workplace: A Global Perspective - International Training Centre ILO
Recruiting, managing and developing disabled people: a practical guide for managers - UK Government
Resources and policies that help create a fair, equitable, safe, and supportive work environment, where all employees can thrive and remain.
Shared parental leave forms and templates for parents - Acas, UK
Paths to parenthood: Uplifting new mothers at work (Employer's Guide) - Fawcett Society, UK
ILO Care Economy Brief: Closing the gender gap in paid parental leaves - ILO
Country reports - International Network on Leave Policies & Research
Defining Policies - International Network on Leave Policies & Research
GH5050 How-To: Develop Family-Friendly Workplace Policies - G5050
On the road to an inclusive and safer world of work: Ratifying ILO C190 and R206 - UN Women
UN System-wide Knowledge Hub on Addressing Sexual Harassment in the UN System - UN Women
Handbook: Addressing violence and harassment against women in the world of work - UN Women
Creating a world of work free of gender-based violence - Labour Research Service, South Africa
GH5050 How-To: Develop A Comprehensive Sexual Harassment Policy - G5050
Equality, diversity and inclusion policy template - Acas, UK
EDGE Standards and Certification - EDGE Certified Foundation
Make Work Fair with Professor Iris Bohnet - EDGE Certified Foundation
Thriving cultures: transforming wellbeing, engagement and performance - Bond
Understanding effective safeguarding culture - Bond
FCDO safeguarding due diligence guidance 2: Code of conduct, recruitment, and training - Bond
Resources and policies that promote equal opportunities for career growth and leadership.
Breaking Barriers to Progression - Business in the Community, UK
What Is Reverse Mentoring? - Business in the Community, UK
Boards Are IN - Disability: IN
Boards Are IN: Modernizing the Corporate Board to Include People with Disabilities - Disability: IN
Risks of retreat: The enduring inclusion imperative - Catalyst
Resources to help organisations and leaders at all levels put feminist leadership principles into practice.
We Are Feminist Leaders 12 Week Course - We are Feminist Leaders
Young Feminist Leadership Toolkit - Frida
Lead Like A Feminist Podcast - Lead Like A Feminist
Feminist Leadership: What’s Privilege Got to Do With It. - Leila Billing (An Injustice Mag)
Feminist Co‑Leadership Tool Gallery - Feminist Co‑Leadership
Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists - African Women’s Development Fund
Feminist Leadership: Leadership for Social Change - Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (COFEM)
Transformative and Feminist Leadership for Women's Rights - Shawna Wakefield (Oxfam America)
The transformational leader: who is (s)he? A feminist perspective - Ronit Kark
All About Power: Understanding Social Power & Power Structures - Srilatha Batliwala (CREA)
Resources to support leaders and employees in closing the gender pay gap and other pay gaps in their organisation.
Close your pay gap online tool and resources - Close Your Gap, UK
Closing Gender Pay Gaps to Achieve Gender Equality at Work - Women's Empowerment Principles
Closing the pay gap: from insight to impact - PwC
Achieving Equal Pay in your Workplace toolkit - Equality Trust, UK
Gender Pay toolkits - Business in the Community, UK
Pay Gap Toolkit - People Like Us, UK
Closing Gender Pay Gaps – An online module for policy makers - International Training Centre ILO
Pay Transparency Tools to Close the Gender Wage Gap - OECD
Gender gaps in paid and unpaid work persist - OECD
Best practices in EU countries - European Commission
Pay Indicator - Women, Business and the Law (World Bank)
Minimum wages in Africa: Wages disparities and the redistributive potential of minimum wages - ILO
Engage external expertise to improve your organisation’s performance in the areas we assess and advance workplace fairness and equity.
Gender at Work works in partnership with activists and researchers to bring together new knowledge on deep structures of inequality and discriminatory social norms, with innovative approaches and tools to transform them in organisations and communities. The team and large group of associates use capacity development strategies such as gender action learning, strategic planning and program development, training, and reflective learning to engage with teams, organisations and networks.
Get in touch: info@genderatwork.orgA new resource: Strategic and operational support from Drs Gottlieb and Mhatre to create workplace policies, practices, and cultures that allow all employees to thrive.
Dr Amy S. Gottlieb and Dr Sharmila L. Mhatre bring complementary expertise and experience in leadership development, change management, equity, and inclusion - all grounded in current scholarship. Drs. Gottlieb and Mhatre’s consulting approach reflects the principle that organisational culture is an expression of values and behaviours rewarded in the workplace. Transformational change thus begins with identifying barriers in the existing culture and then catalysing dialogue and interventions to reshape institutional practices through the levers of strategy, structures, policies, processes, and people, while also recognising historical inequities and external challenges.
Interested in learning more about this opportunity?
Please contact: fairworkplaces4@gmail.com