Workdynamic promotes gender equity in its workforce by implementing flexible working arrangements and eliminating gender pay gaps.

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The World Bank Organisation have identified that gender equality is a critical component of economic growth and recently published Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform outlining how women’s employment and entrepreneurship choices are affected by legal gender discrimination. Workdynamic Director and Principal, Jane Wright, was one of the 2000 lawyers worldwide who contributed to the report.

The report collates and examines ten years of data around the economic decisions women make as they go through their working lives and is intended as an objective measure of how the regulations and laws of the World Bank Group’s 189 member countries affect women’s incentives to participate in economic activity.

There was a worldwide improvement on average towards gender equality in the last ten years, however only six countries achieve a perfect score of 100 in terms of their laws treating men and women equally among the dimensions measured.

While Australia scores 96.88 on the WBL index, we still have considerable room to improve gender equality not only in terms of legislation, but significantly our ability to meaningfully implement these laws.

Workplace policies are an important way to implement frameworks to reduce both direct and indirect discrimination and implement workplace strategies to promote gender equality. For example, the Bankwest Curtin Economic Centre and Workplace Gender Equity Agency identified in their Gender Equity Insights 2019: Breaking through the glass ceiling report that

“Flexible workplaces and paid parental leave are key to staff retention. The loss of skilled workers represents a potentially significant cost to companies, both through the loss of experience and leadership, and through the costs of recruiting and training new appointees. Flexible workplaces with paid parental leave schemes are integral to retaining female staff members during and after pregnancy.”

Should your organisation wish to be on the forefront of gender equality, Workdynamic are well positioned to assist. Not only are we recognised as experts in this area, but we ‘walk the walk’ in our day to day business.

Image source: Women, Business and the Law 2019: A Decade of Reform

The information in this article is for information purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should obtain specific advice relevant to your circumstances.