Stories About Gender Equality
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A Just Transition: How Nestlé is Taking a New Approach Across Our Value Chain
SUPPLY CHAIN - Whether in our personal lives or in business, doing only what is required or expected is generally unsatisfying. If your plan of action means doing the bare minimum, the status quo is the likely result.
L’Oréal USA Becomes First Company Certified for Intersectional Gender Equity
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - The beauty giant is the first in the world to earn EDGEplus certification, for a pay assessment tool allowing the company to achieve organizational gender pay equity.
McCormick & Co Partners to Offer Suppliers Sustainability-Linked Financing
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - Through a new partnership with IFC and Citi, McCormick’s herbs and spices suppliers can qualify for discounted rates on short-term working-capital financing when they meet McCormick’s sustainability standards.
‘Moms Deserve More’ Flower Store Quantifies What Moms Really Deserve This Mother's Day
MARKETING AND COMMS - The online flower shop’s bouquets — which include The Unpaid Work Bouquet and The Lack of Childcare Bouquet — cost up to $800B, reflecting the true value of mothers' work and the true economic cost of adequately thanking them.
Bridging the Missing Link in Purposeful Business: How Women Are Addressing Sustainability, Equality
FROM PURPOSE TO ACTION: BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE TOGETHER - Dow is committed to supporting women at every level of its business — so that, as doors open to the next generation of female leaders, so do new ideas for delivering sustainable solutions.
Cities Can Have Something for Everyone When Created by Everyone
THE NEXT ECONOMY - At Cabify, our team’s female representation more than doubles the technology sector’s average. Safe and inclusive transport plays a crucial role in socially sustainable development — so, if we want truly inclusive cities, we must also listen to women.
Milwaukee Startup Helping Small African Farms Turn Waste into Livelihoods
WASTE NOT - Agricycle wants to address poverty and put a dent in global food waste. So far, it has created nearly 7,000 livelihoods in Africa and diverted 177 tons of food waste — and counting.
PepsiCo Doubles Down on Climate Goals, Expands Farmer-Empowerment Efforts in Latin America
WALKING THE TALK - PepsiCo plans to more than double its science-based climate goal, aiming to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040; and expands efforts to create resilient supply chains in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on female farmers.
Murals Honor the Farmers Behind Our Favorite Products, Benefits of Fair Trade
MARKETING AND COMMS - The murals were part of a Fairtrade America campaign during October for Fair Trade Month, to raise awareness of Fairtrade’s positive impacts. Shoppers voiced their choice for Fairtrade and won various Fairtrade prizes.
Kimberly-Clark, Kotex to Mentor Startups Focused on Women’s Health, Access to Sanitation
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - The Toilet Board Coalition’s Women in the Sanitation Economy Innovation Lab has chosen five women-led, early-stage startups focused on women’s reproductive health and hygiene; and improving access to safe, sustainable sanitation options in underserved areas.
Nimble Nonprofit Pivots to Fulfill Its Purpose During the Pandemic
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - The Desai Foundation’s advice to purpose-driven organizations dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic is to look beyond the immediate practicalities and be open to new ways to deliver on end goals.
Rwanda’s Akilah Institute: Where Women Mean Business
THE NEXT ECONOMY - Two US beverage companies are working to empower tea and coffee growers in Rwanda, many of whom are women. Both companies are working to engage Akilah Institute students in hands-on learning in the coffee and tea industries, to open their eyes to the possibilities in their country.
Caesars Shares Lessons Learned on Integrating Inclusion, Sustainability
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - As part of our commitment to exploring the intersections of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and sustainable practices, three of our leaders will take part in discussions on the topic next week at SB'19 Detroit.
KadAfrica: Cultivating Young Ugandan Women’s ‘Passion’ for Fruit Farming
THE NEXT ECONOMY - Not only can girls earn money for themselves and their families, they can also access farmer training and classes on a range of subjects, including financial literacy, reproductive health, farming and entrepreneurship.
Wisdom Fund Aims to Close Lending Gap for Women
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - New impact investment vehicle provides funding to underserved women of color and low-income women entrepreneurs across the US.
Brands Expand Partnerships, Amplify Messaging in Support of Gender Equality
MARKETING AND COMMS - adidas, Diageo and HP launch new films and campaigns, while PepsiCo tackles gender equality in agriculture for International Women’s Day.
Kellogg is Committed to Gender Equity and #BalanceforBetter
COMMUNITY UPDATE - With employees in 21 countries worldwide, Kellogg Company truly is a multinational, multicultural company.
JUST Capital, Forbes Name America's Most JUST Companies for 2018
MARKETING AND COMMS - JUST Capital and Forbes today released the 2018 list of America’s Most JUST Companies, an annual ranking of the 1,000 largest publicly traded US corporations on the issues Americans care about most, including fair pay and good benefits, customer treatment and privacy, beneficial products, environmental impact, job creation, and community support in the US and abroad, as well as ethical leadership and long-term financial growth.
Recruit Group: Resolving Society's Negatives with Business Solutions
LEADERSHIP - This post has been translated from Japanese. Read the original interview here.
Soap Recycling Creating Win-Win-Win for Hotels, Women, Developing Communities
WASTE NOT - It was 2014 and social entrepreneur Samir Lakhani was working on sustainable aquaculture projects in the villages of Northern Cambodia. Watching a mother wash and bathe her new baby using laundry powder rather than soap is a vision that has stayed with him to this day. It was also the inspiration for his next business venture. “I noticed that nobody seemed in good overall health — whether it was an infection that wouldn’t go away or a child with diarrhea,” he told Sustainable Brands in a recent interview.
