Women's Empowerment Principles is a platform launched in 2010 by UN UN Women launched the Women's Empowerment Principles platform in 2010. It was founded to encourage people and institutions that work to ensure the existence of women in all fields and at all levels of economic life and strengthen the work already being done in this area. It is a platform developed in collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact and the UN Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Unit.
They present companies with essential considerations to consider to achieve gender equality in the workplace, markets, and society. A gender lens has been developed to enable businesses to examine and analyze whether they act in line with gender equality in their current internal policies, performance programs, and reporting. At WEPs, business leaders are asked to explicitly acknowledge seven principles for creating company policies that promote gender equality. CEOs of companies are required to sign the Statement of Support. Companies who accept the notion should establish opportunities for women on the board of directors, in the workplace, and even in the supply chain, that is, at every level of the firm. They should also demonstrate their long-term ambition to implement rather than commit.
Here are seven company policies to promote gender equality:
1. Providing senior institutional leadership for gender equality
2. Treating all women and men somewhat in business life, respecting human rights and the principle of non-discrimination, and supporting these principles
3. Ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of all female and male workers
4. Supporting women's education, training, and professional development opportunities
5. Implementation of entrepreneurial development, supply chain, and marketing methods for women's empowerment
6. Promoting equality through community initiatives and advocacy
7. Evaluation and public reporting of achievements regarding gender equality