Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Providing women and girls with equal access to education, health care, decent work, and representation in decision-making processes will fuel sustainable economies and benefit communities and society at large.
This SDG has several 2030 targets to which every company can contribute. These targets aim to end all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls everywhere; recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work, and promote shared responsibility within the household and the family; and secure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making.
Every Future-Fit Business must avoid slowing down progress toward this SDG by:
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Procurement of goods and services does not hinder progress.
The environmental and social footprints of a company’s supply chain affect society’s progress towards many of the global challenges that the SDGs seek to address. By taking steps to increase the fitness of its supply chain, the company encourages actions that support the related SDGs.
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Safeguarding employee health and actively encouraging suppliers to do the same.
This ensures that labour rights and safe working environments are provided for all workers.
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Offering its employees fair employment terms and actively encouraging suppliers to do the same.
This ensures that male and female workers across the value chain are offered financially supported parental leave, thus recognising the value of and promoting shared responsibility for childcare.
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Eliminating employee discrimination and actively encouraging suppliers to do the same
This ensures that male and female workers across the value chain have equal access to employment, training and advancement opportunities.
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Actively soliciting, impartially judging and transparently addressing employee concerns and actively encouraging suppliers to do the same.
This ensures that workplaces across the value chain are conducive to the mental and physical wellbeing of all workers, and in particular that there is zero tolerance for sexual harassment and violence against women.
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Investing in assets that do not hinder progress.
The environmental and social footprints of a company’s investments affect society’s progress towards many of the global challenges that the SDGs seek to address. By taking steps to increase the fitness of its financial assets, the company encourages actions that support the related SDGs.
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Any Future-Fit Business may actively speed up progress toward this SDG by:
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Ensuring more people are healthy and safe from harm.
Reducing all forms of violence against women and girls, including human trafficking, and eliminating harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation, ensure more women and girls are healthy and safe from harm.
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Ensuring people's capabilities are strengthened.
Providing access to productivity-enhancing technologies and financial services will empower women and girls.
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Ensuring more people have access to economic opportunity.
Ensuring rights to land and other productive resources will empower women and girls.
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Ensuring individual freedoms are upheld for more people.
Eliminating discriminatory practices empowers women and girls, and ensure equal opportunities at all levels of decision-making.
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Strengthening infrastructure in pursuit of future-fitness.
Developing quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Strengthening governance in pursuit of future-fitness.
Ensuring governance is accountable, participatory, responsive, responsible and transparent removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Strengthening market mechanisms in pursuit of future-fitness.
Overcoming technological, knowledge and incentive barriers through the use of market mechanisms removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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Aligning social norms to increasingly support the pursuit of future-fitness.
Ensuring social norms align with socially and environmentally responsible behaviour removes barriers to wellbeing and protects the health of the environment.
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